But I'm left exceedingly cold by the trailer for Fair Game:
The thing is, Joe Wilson's speaking up against the administration's claims in the lead-up to the Iraq war is news. The government's retaliation against Valerie Plame is news. But so much of the manner of the story is about exceedingly petty Washington infighting that's been rehashed so many times that even I, who edit a website about Washington, am thoroughly sick of it. The movie's behind the times, and while it may be true that Plame was running a relevant operation that was disrupted by her outing, the action sequences feel like Hollywood gloss, rather than an honest exploration of the political drama involved. It's as if they couldn't sex up or make intelligent and piercing the political material they had, so they defaulted to intel cliches.