The film, written by Charlie Fletcher (based on a novel by Paula Gosling) and directed by Andrew Sipes, is one long explosion-riddled chase. Crawford, even when throwing a snit, fumes in the bland, clipped cadences of an ambitious beauty contestant who doesn’t want to smear her makeup. But where Miss Russell had a vocal growl to match this hint of toughness, Ms. From certain camera angles, her face in repose projects the kind of sullen pugnacity associated with Jane Russell.

Crawford is stunning to look at, but her deep-set eyes render her expression forever inscrutable.

The star’s matter-of-fact coolness, which works to her advantage on television by giving her an aura of neighborly casualness, backfires on the big screen, where it makes her seem smaller than life. Crawford already dispenses on television. But it won’t be by portraying characters who have to spout professional jargon, unless it is the sort of chattery girl talk that Ms. The lustrous supermodel may yet salvage her fledgling movie career. Kirkpatrick ends up on the run to protect McQuean when she is targeted for murder by ex-members of the KGB with interests in a ship owned by a Cuban man who may lose it in a divorce case being pursued by McQuean.Īnd it’s strike one against Cindy Crawford, who is glaringly miscast as a lawyer named Kate McQuean in “Fair Game,” her Hollywood film debut. It stars Cindy Crawford as family law attorney Kate McQuean and William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a Florida police officer. They order pizza, but Volkov, however, traces the order and Rosa and two henchmen infiltrate the hotel and kill Max’s colleagues.įair Game is a 1995 American action film directed by Andrew Sipes. Kate, Max, and two of his colleagues stay at a hotel. Max becomes her protector, as it turns out that Kazak wants Kate dead. Then an attempt is made on Kate’s life by Kazak, who-after killing Juantorena-assembles his team into tracking and killing Kate.

When Kate is unintentionally hit by a stray bullet, Miami detective Max Kirkpatrick (William Baldwin) is assigned to the case. The freighter which is owned by criminal Emilio Juantorena (Miguel Sandoval), is the current base of operations of Ilya Pavel Kazak (Steven Berkoff), a former KGB agent who has become an international money laundering expert, and he has also become the leader of a group of rogue KGB members, including Stefan (Gustav Vintas), Leonide “Hacker” Volkov (Paul Dillon), Navigator (Marc Macaulay), Rosa (Jenette Goldstein) and Zhukov (Olek Krupa). Kathryn “Kate” McQuean (Cindy Crawford) is a Miami lawyer who, in the course of a divorce proceeding, attempts to seize a 157-foot freighter docked off the Florida coast in lieu of unpaid alimony.

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