Nicolas Travolta et John Cage / Castor Archer & Sean Troy...
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Two Great Performances From Travolta And Cage
John Woo certainly knows how to deliver an action movie.
Plot In A Paragraph: FBI Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) is still grieving for his dead son Michael. His son's killer is a powerful master criminal, Castor Troy (Nic Cage) When Archer finally captures Castor, (in a battle that leaves Troy in a coma) he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor's brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. So Archer undergoes a special operation by a doctor that can cut off people's faces, and can place a person's face onto another person. However, Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge.
Both Nic Cage (his fourth good movie in a row, following "Leaving Las Vegas", "The Rock" and "Con Air") and and John Travolta (Still riding high after "Pulp Fiction) have put in some awful performances over the years, but both of them are in top form here. Dominique Swain is fine as Jamie, Travolta's daughter as is Gina Gershon and Thomas Jane in his small role.The plot is ridiculous, but when has that ever mattered in an action movie?? It's a fun ride all the same. Thanks mainly to the performances of the two leads. My bug bearer of policemen and killers never being able to hit the target when it actually matters, is here and sadly in great supply. Interestingly Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were originally in mind to play the lead roles, but when John Woo was brought in to direct, he decided to go with John Travolta and Nic Cage.
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Just wow Amazing love this movie John Travolta & Nicolas Cage are fine actors best of the best.love their acting capabilities on how they can change their characters from good guy to villain and from villain to good guy.it's just like yesterday but it's a movie that came 17 years ago and still good to watch.no artificial graphics like most of today's movies.the stunts were amazing. i would recommend anyone to watch this lovely movie.even another 17 years go from now on this movie would be the best movie to sit & enjoy.the story was just amazing on how he risks his life for the sake of the job.John Travolta loved his job more than his family that's why he risked his life.it was like today's face transplant procedure.John woo we need more movie just like this even though i haven't watch more other movies from John Woo.Simply an amazing movie!
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Author: In_Theaters_NOW from United States
5 December 2014
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ITN METER: 10**********/10-STARS - So there's like this dude that looks like Travolta, he married, to that b-word who is mean to the dog Hachi, and the bad guy looks like Nicholas Cage, WHEEE! So Travolta totally takes his face off. HAHA!! Get it? He wants his face off. So like he comes back with traded faces, then Nic Cage is the good guy now and Travolta is baaad to da bone, sexy mofo. There's couple of slo-mo opera scenes very well done, love the doves one, and Travolta porks Travolta's wife, but he really is Cage. With Stayin' Alive face. This is Shawshank Redemption caliber. I loved the thigh stabbing scene. A lot of people croak in this then Cage cuts his own face, which is really Travolta's and then they all get their faces back in the end.. or do they??? Does Travolta's new face retain the evil it absorbed?? Would make a great sequel but let's leave perfection alone, shall we? A gem and rare tour de force.
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Author: Taylor Kingston from Australia
17 October 2014
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I love this movie. It's so good. I can't watch it over and over, but I have seen it at least three times.
In this movie, an FBI agent, in attempt to foil an extortion plot, undergoes a serious, face- altering operation. He literally takes his face off, and then put another mans face on. I love that the title is really accurate. The man who's face he took, also murdered his son, because he was trying to kill him. It's all going according to plan, until the criminal wakes up from his coma, kills some people, gets out of the lab, and impersonates his look-alike. Since no one knows they've switched faces, except the people that are now dead, the FBI agent has to get out and get his counterpart back in jail before he does something to his wife. I didn't mention anyones name, because I honestly can't remember is Nicolas Cage played the good guy and then the bad guy or if he was the bad guy and then the good guy. The same goes for John Travolta.Overall, I give this movie a 7 out of 10.
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Author: Mr-Fusion from United States
10 September 2014
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BROKEN ARROW had already made me a John Woo fan when FACE/OFF was first released, and I was all over this movie. The camera moves, the dazzling gun play, the exciting shootouts . . . and the doves. Woo's brand of guns akimbo fight scenes worked its magic on my teenage brain in the worst way. And what's really satisfying about FACE/OFF is that those action scenes hold up. The big setpieces are well-choreographed and even intense, especially with the big speedboat chase.
It was really cool in the mid-'90s to see such a big Hollywood action bonanza with a sci-fi bent: two arch-nemeses literally swapping faces and effectively switching places with each other. This angle does demand a lot from the audience (and if you're turned off by this movie, you'll probably start punching holes in the logic), but it's the two stars that hold this up and make it all worthwhile. Half the fun of the whole thing is just watching John Travolta and Nicolas Cage effectively switch roles; Cage plays the tortured and vulnerable character while Travolta chews the scenery (to the hilt). Travolta makes for a great heavy, and it's pretty cool to see him let it all hang out. It's a hell of an action movie and a great showcase of talent from the two leads. 8/10
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Author: zulfiraja from United Kingdom
7 September 2014
When 'Face/Off' first came out in 1997, it was impressive but not great. However I co-incidentally watched the movie again, seventeen years on and I truly loved it. Perhaps some parts of the film and more notably the epic performances of Nicholas Cage and John Travolta may have been missed first time around. Both Cage and Travolta are brilliant as they play the roles of good and evil, with Nicholas Cage giving his best career performance as psychopathic 'Castor Troy'. The film has great action, which in itself is never enough, what it also has is drama, emotion and interesting female characters. This is not often the case with action orientated movies but Face/Off is more than that, it is an experience of 90's movies at it's best !!
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Well, it's not terrible. I mean I can get f*cked up and watch the sh*t out of it, but like I have zero emotional connection to it. What happens? Oh yeah, that one guy is mad at the other guy, and John Woo has something to do with this? He directed it? Yowza! They are just giving away money in Hollywood. Did you know they built the world and made it insane? I did not know that either, it came to me as a shock. If I'm gonna play Scrabble, this is an ideal movie to play Scrabble to. Get tanked and just lay down some tiles while this big stupid piece of crap plays out, a person could almost live off of that, almost. So much money, and they ended up making this movie with it.
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Author: 851222 from Lithuania
1 July 2014
Greetings from Lithuania.
"Face/Off" is a terrific action flick. It has ingenious plot, terrific action, great acting by two lead, and again, great action sequences, created by J.Woo himself. This is the best J.Woo's film of his carrier, and i know has made some great action flicks back home, but i think "Face/Off" is his crowning achievement.
By the way, last time when i was re watching this flick, i have noticed some goofs in the film, one of the is very clearly visible - how could they leave cables around the guy who N.Cages character (the evil one) blasts with the shotgun in the first shootout, is beyond me.Nevertheless, "Face/Off" is probably unforgettable action classic, which with the help of simple and ingenious plot ranks among the best action flicks ever. Yes, it's that good.
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Something about this film is scary - in fact, completely terrifying! Although not a horror film it could *almost* fall into that category. The thought of identity theft is creepy - there is no telling what a person could or would do if they stole your identity right down to your face! Yes I do love this movie and I would recommend it to anyone that likes a good sci-fi, drama and/or crime film. The movie does put a new twist to the old concept of stolen identity - worth watching! A good prime time film to watch when you are in the mood for something thrilling and different.9/10
