Directed by Chloe Domont
Last night, my wife wanted to continue with women directors, so she found a movie that looked interesting. And by all means with a synopsis like Fair Play‘s on Netflix, it was destined to be great.
An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple’s relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.
Fair Play is the story of a couple, who are working together at a high-stress company but they are also dating (getting engaged) each other in secret as its against company policy. When a rumored promotion for Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) is derailed by the announcement that his secret fiancee Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) was promoted instead, things take a turn for the couple.
This is not necessarily a thriller to the extent of a typical thriller, but I can see why the consider this so. Picture War of the Roses meets Fatal Attraction. We have classic male bruised ego who is jealous of a woman pushing past him in a job and a career he dreamed about. What makes it worse, it’s his woman.
What irked me about the film is how we had to spend half of this two-hour movie watching how much in love they are before we get to the good stuff. It’s like reading a book that starts of with “Once upon a time…” If you are going to classify yourself as a thriller, drop us in the middle of it. Let them fuck, we get it, then take us to the thrill of the story.
The last half is perfect. Great. It’s the long set up that I had issues with and because of that, I only gave it three-stars.
