Just in case you missed it, there is a movie out about The Plame Game out, staring *cough* Sean Penn and Naomi Watts and guess how it did?

Major Flop. Budgeted for 22 million it has so far made *snort* 8.

Here is the trailer that anyone who was at the forefront of The Plame Game – your’s truly can tell is chocked full of fantasy. It should as it’s based on Valerie Plame’s book.

Plame is portrayed as a Super Spy and Joe Wilson as her Bogie. We know that in actuality Joe Wilson leaked his own wife’s name, and that the whole idea of a “leak” was a elaborate scheme involving Plame, Wilson, a couple of writers at the Ny Times.

American knew that all along which is why no one is flocking to see this drivel.

I saw it and will try to put up a review later.

But this review from “Inside Pulse” is pretty much right on.

“Fair Game follows that firestorm and the lives of Wilson and Plame, up through her testimony in front of a Congressional committee on the matter. And while the film has all the requisite parts of a good thriller, it fails because it has an ideology that must be followed as opposed to trying to resemble something closer to the truth of the situation. And it starts with how Plame andWilson, despite fine performances from Watts and Penn. It’s a shame, almost, that a pair of good performances that probably will end up being worthy of Oscar nominations come from a film that is as one-sided as this film is.

They both are almost angels in how they’re setup as characters. Plame is Jason Bourne with pumps and a push up bra, globe-trotting in service to her country. She’s smarter than anyone in the room when it comes to intelligence and has a way of making everyone do what she wants. Wilson is a fiery man who’s looked the devil in the eye and didn’t flinch, a former Ambassador who has experienced world politics first hand and knows the truth simple folk don’t with the ability to have the best line in the best occasion readily available. They’re a glorious couple and no one ever gets the upper hand on these two unless by nefarious means. Everyone who opposes them is evil and with an axe to grind against them, clearly up to no good and willing to do anything to discredit those in their way.

The amusing thing is that the facts behind Plame’s outing only end up coming out in the film right before the film’s final credits, quickly on screen and off. Considering how much time is spent with establishing the gravity of the situation it’s a bit disheartening that the nuts and bolts of the matter are left off. It’s one thing to be one-sided about a story like this, and it’s not that surprising considering the film is based on her book, but it’s another to take history and distort it so much to fit neatly into a narrative. There are lots of myths about the situation that the film treats as fact that a minimal amount of research could have corrected, turning the film into a puff piece as opposed to a critical examination of a major event in the covert intelligence community from the viewpoint of someone who was wronged.

Fair Game may be a film that gets awards heaped on it but it won’t be for the right reasons; it’ll be for what it represents as opposed to what it is, which is not a good film at all.”

In actuality the movie is chocked full of inaccuracies, of which this editorial  specifies. I’ve actually been working on a real story about what really happened, called appropriately “The Plame Game”. Should be out by the middle of next year.