Another Saturday film - directed by Doug Liman who directed Bourne Identity and Mr and Mrs Smith (one of my favourite films - "Who's your daddy now?"
.Should be good.
EDIT: It is an excellent film taking place in the very near past. Valerie Plame Wilson (Naomi Watts, it seemed a bit of a stretch until you see Valerie at the end) is a CIA covert operative with a husband Joe Wilson (Sean Penn) who used to be a diplomat and now has his own consulting business. He is actually quite irritating in the extremeHe makes a trip to Niger on behalf of the CIA... uranium enriching, rods, etc. Weapons of mass destruction not being found.
When one of Joe's reports is used to support going to war in Iraq, he speaks out in a letter to the NY Times. The Wilson's lives then turn upside down as an aide close to President Bush tries to deflect the spotlight by outing Valerie...
Very good performances although Sean Penn can do his fair share of scene crunching much in the way Steve McQueen did in The Magnificent Seven.
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