Fair Game has all the right ingredients for a so-bad-its-good action film: its based on the same novel that inspired Sylvester Stallones Cobra and it was producer Joel Silvers attempt to make an action hero out of (snigger) Cindy Crawford, who plays a lawyer that goes to work wearing a mini-dress. Apart from the plot device of a cop (William Baldwin in this case) protecting an innocent woman, though, its a totally different film. Instead of a villain called The Night Slasher we get bug-eyed Steven Berkoff, whose over-the-top-and-through-the-woods performance makes the picture a must-see. Portraying a former KGB operative, Berkoffs trying to pull off one of those high-tech robberies that requires lots of hardware and an account in the Cayman Islands. After spending the entire film trying to kill Crawford, he eventually whisks her off to his secret hideout and explains his diabolical masterplan, then seems surprised when she turns the tables and leaves him to his doom.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'