The Dominator reviews

Distributed by
Warner Home Video

Cert: 15

Running time: 88 minutes

Year: 1995

Cat.no: SO14072

Released: 17th March 1997

Sound: Dolby Surround

Presented in fullscreen

Price: £10.99

Extras : None

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Director:

Andrew Sipes

Producer:

Joel Silver (Lethal Weapon trilogy, Die Hard trilogy)

Screenplay:

Charlie Fletcher (based on the novel by Paula Gosling)

Music:

Mark Mancina

Cast:

Max : William Baldwin (Backdraft, Flatliners)
Kate : Cindy Crawford
Kazak : Steven Berkoff (Beverly Hills Cop, The Krays)
Meyerson : Christopher McDonald (Thelma and Louise, Terminal Velocity)
Hollenbeck : Dan Hedaya (The Usual Suspects)
Rita : Salma Heyek (Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn)

Fair Game sees the pairing of well-known actor William Baldwin and well-known supermodel Cindy Crawford in her first film.

Baldwin plays a cop who's just been dumped by his girlfriend, played by the gorgeous Salma Heyek, and Cindy plays a highly successful lawyer. Yes, you will need a degree of suspension of disbelief to watch this film, but action fans won't be disappointed.

Let's get the plot out of the way first. While out jogging one day, Kate McQuean becomes the victim of a drive-by shooting, but only to the point that she gets a graze on her arm. It's in the police station that she meets Baldwin, who's assigned to file the paperwork on her case.

One case that she's involved with concerns a ship, The Tortuga, whose rights need to be signed over to a client of hers. However, with the registry documents gone AWOL, and the fact that it's manned by a crew led by the evil Steven Berkoff, always a joy to watch in bad-guy mode, you can bet she won't get it back right away, especially as she has become a target for assassination.

With Baldwin and Cindy together, I was pleasantly surprised to find that this was an action film with the action handled well. Usually, in films like these a number of the action scenes tend to be very half-hearted, but each of these pack their own punch, thanks to them being in the hands of SFX-supremo Joel Silver who has worked on the Lethal Weapon trilogy and the Die Hard trilogy, the stunts are superb, beginning with Cindy's attempt to change her TV channel...

Picture quality is good, and the sound is a knockout. Cindy Crawford isn't going to win any Oscars for her acting ability, but with good performances from the rest, including Christopher McDonald and Dan Hedaya (the latter in an uncredited cameo, a few bullets through the head, plus the obligatory nude scene, for only £10.99, it's only fair to add this one to your collection.

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1997.