After killing some of Kazak's men, Max and Kate travel throughout Florida, trying to avoid Kazak and to find out why he wants Kate dead. The "agents" turn out to be henchmen, working for Kazak and Max's partner and long-time friend Detective Louis Aragon ( John Bedford Lloyd) is killed in the process. Meyerson ( Christopher McDonald), FBI agents are sent to escort them. Max manages to kill the whole hit squad (except Rosa) and he and Kate then leave. They order pizza, but Volkov, however, traces the order and Rosa and two henchmen infiltrate the hotel and kill Max's colleagues. Kate, Max, and two of his colleagues stay at a hotel.
With some knowing humor, maybe this could've been a campy time-waster as it is, it's an embarrassingly bubble-headed bore.Max becomes her protector, as it turns out that Kazak wants Kate dead. And there you have Fair Game – sex, guns, and explosions served up with no rhyme, reason, or flair. Realizing that Fair Game's chief asset lies in the curvy bodies of its attractive stars, director Sipes makes sure to keep them constantly on display in skimpy clothing, even allowing time for a totally illogical, hilariously unerotic sex scene midway through the picture. There are one or two neat stunts – a chase scene involving a burning tow truck is handled with some imagination – but for the most part, even the action scenes are limp, marred by confusing compositions and weirdly sped-up photography. The performances aren't any better, with Baldwin coming off like a cheap Bruce Willis wannabe and Crawford making for a pretty ineffective heroine, spending most of her screen time either cowering, screaming, or undressing. Charlie Fletcher's screenplay (based on a novel no less) is one hoary cliché after another, and is filled with a number of dialogue groaners (“I was hoping to demo your unit,” Crawford purrs while seducing a computer nerd), in addition to being structured in such a way that the forward motion of the plot is wholly dependent on both the good and bad guys continuously doing stupid things.
Following her uninspired lead is William Baldwin as Max Kirkpatrick, a reckless, cigar-smoking Miami cop assigned to protect Crawford from the renegade Russkies. In her first starring role, model-turned-actress Cindy Crawford says little and does even less as leggy Kate McQueen, a civil attorney on the run from a gang of nasty KGB assassins. Very slick and extremely silly, not to mention aptly titled, Fair Game is just that – a noisy actioner so inanely scripted, acted, and directed that it practically begs you to make fun of it.
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