Face/Off 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
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 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
Krane Entertainment Paramount Permut Presentations WCG Entertainment Productions Touchstone Pictures Douglas/Reuther Productions
Contracara, Face Off - Im Körper des Feindes, Cara a cara, Αδίστακτα Πρόσωπα, 夺面双雄, Face-Off - Due Facce Di Un Assassino (1997), Face Off, Face Off 1997
Walk into this expecting subtlety and you're in trouble. Walk into this expecting cheesy, retarded fun and you'll be just fine.
See, this film does something quite extraordinary. It takes an absolutely ridiculous gimmick, seemingly created just to have an absurd action packed impersonation contest and it makes it work.
This has absolutely nothing to do with the script, because it is just really poor. It is overlong, has some cringe worthy dialogue and is riddled with annoying static in the narrative. It works because of Woo, Travolta and Cage.
Travolta and Cage clearly understand the power of 'having a good time'. They embrace Face/Off's insane premise with admirable passion and enthusiasm. And as silly as it all is, I…
90/100
Even if we do find what's over the rainbow, I doubt it's better than this.
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."
I don't really know how to review this; on one hand, it's hilariously cheesy and knows how ridiculous its plot is, so it just goes along with it; on the other, it tries too hard to me emotional sometimes and the tone just doesn't come together that well (for me anyway).
But that being said, John Woo's direction was as crazy as I expected, and you have Nicolas Cage and John Travolta playing certain characters, but then pretending to be each other's characters, and that was just gold to watch, there's a lot of meme potential in this movie.
This is one of those films where I don't mind if they do a remake because this story does have a lot of potential, both in comedy and drama.
as a serious action movie (which I think it's trying to be?) it's a 2.5 star, but as a comedy/parody, damn me if it's not a 4-star
*sees repeated montages of Nicolas Cage crying because he is John Travolta and he is trapped in prison*
*sees Nicolas Cage perversely eyeing young girls*
*watches Nicolas cage without his face on, just a mass of red on his head*
Triggered
I was very overwhelmed by the pacing and violence of this film (as well as Nicolas Cage) but it’s John Woo, what’s new really ✌🏻✌🏻
yeah i must say this is a guilty pleasure of mine, these two really work so well alongside each other while reversing roles... and reversing them again. lots of great one-liners, cinematography is attractive and nicolas really knows how to dress handsomely well
in this.
just kill yourself, or let it go!
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