An antiterrorism agent goes under the knife to acquire the likeness of a terrorist and gather details about a bombing plot. When the terrorist escapes custody, he undergoes surgery to look like the agent so he can get close to the agent's family.
John Travolta Nicolas Cage Joan Allen Alessandro Nivola Gina Gershon Dominique Swain Nick Cassavetes Harve Presnell Colm Feore John Carroll Lynch CCH Pounder Robert Wisdom Margaret Cho James Denton Matt Ross Chris Bauer Myles Jeffrey David McCurley Thomas Jane Danny Masterson Lisa Boyle Linda Hoffman Tommy Flanagan Romy Windsor Paul Hipp Kirk Baltz Lauren Sinclair Khristian Lupo Thomas Rosales Jr. Show All…
Barrie M. Osborne Steven Reuther Michael Douglas Terence Chang David Permut Jonathan D. Krane Christopher Godsick
Susumu Tokunow Dino Dimuro Tony Lamberti Christopher Assells Per Hallberg Bryan Bowen Mark P. Stoeckinger David Williams Andy Nelson Susan Kurtz Anna Behlmer Michael A. Reagan Chris Hogan Scott Wolf Tom Lalley Kelly Oxford Peter J. Lehman Rick Morris Tom Perry Philip Rogers
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Face Off, 夺面双雄, Face Off - Im Körper des Feindes, Face Off - Due facce di un assassino, Αδίστακτα Πρόσωπα, Volte.Face, Face∕Off, A Outra Face
My favorite thing about this film and,
trust me, I have a lot of favorite things
about it, is that Woo actually got Travolta
to say the fine line, "Well, think about me.
This nose. This hair. This ridiculous chin."
90/100
Even if we do find what's over the rainbow, I doubt it's better than this.
Nicolas Cage and John Travolta switch faces and spend almost two and a half hours trying to kill each other. This is a five star movie.
nicolas cage saying "I could eat a peach for hours" seductively is the worst possible thing I could've heard in a post-cmbyn world
I saw this as a cynical, shitty teenager, and hated it. Even before revisiting it, I was deeply ashamed of this fact because I knew in my heart I was wrong. I am proud of how much I have matured in the last 17 years as a viewer of cinema, and that I can now recognize Face/Off as one of the greatest films of all time.
Way ahead of its time swill, a bullet ballet of bellicose absurdity that feels like a Nolan movie stripped of its overly serious personality vacuum stiffness—even the melodrama here is good! Love the supporting cast (CCH Pounder!, Joe Bob cameo), the actual plane crashing into a actual hanger, as well as the other set pieces littered with squibs and explosive destruction.
Still fun, still absurd, and still has a pulse after all these years—so happy my future wife picked this to watch last night instead of me picking some dumb Netflix slop.
My face itches...
If there was ever to be a single film that encapsulates that superficial, machismo-laden, frat-boy popcorn flick that seemed to pervade the last half of the '90s, Face/Off gets my vote as its ambassador. Along with Independence Day, the first Mission: Impossible, and countless others, a new style of blockbuster had emerged - hyper-stylized, overly-polished, and seemingly allergic to any rational thought among the characters that populate them. Underneath it all, there was a sense of almost-invincible optimism running through pre-9/11 Hollywood. The action/exploitation flicks of the late '70s and '80s were buffed to a near-blinding sheen, and while they added nothing to the idea of cinema as art, by god, but weren't they a blast.
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