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
Terence Chang Barrie M. Osborne David Permut Steven Reuther Michael Douglas Jonathan D. Krane Christopher Godsick
Mark P. Stoeckinger Per Hallberg Susan Kurtz Christopher Assells Dino Dimuro Bryan Bowen Chris Hogan Tony Lamberti Peter J. Lehman Rick Morris Kelly Oxford Michael A. Reagan Scott Wolf Anna Behlmer Tom Lalley Andy Nelson Tom Perry Susumu Tokunow Philip Rogers
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Contracara, Face Off, 夺面双雄, Face Off 1997, Face Off - Im Körper des Feindes, Face-Off - Due Facce Di Un Assassino (1997), Cara a cara, Αδίστακτα Πρόσωπα
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."
Now that was an experience.
John woo at peak john wooness complete with explosions everywhere, slow motion, dodgey religious symbolism and even doves.
Nick cage is damn near insane and damn isn't John Travolta having fun.
This honestly may be the most ridiculous film I've ever seen but oh my it was brilliant and far funnier than most 'comedies' ive seen.
Wish they'd stop stroking each other's faces though that's one odd family tradition.
Road of Pain- The Nicolas Cage Challenge
Movie #10
Finally done with the Challenge and I wished so much that Matchstick Men would have been the movie with which I finished this Challenge, because it was the best movie in this challenge.
Anyway, now talking about Face/off:
I think that Face/off is one of these dumb action movies that were made just for some dumb action.
It's just everything what a dumb action movie needs:
The normal action scenes with explosions, people shooting each other and a stand/off(hahaha... that's a pun to the movie's name, did you notice that?...) with the villain and the hero throwing some dumb one-liners one after the other.
But anyway, I have to admit something,…
One of the most ridiculous, unknowingly hilarious and special films from late 90's.
Cage and Travolta go all out and it shows.
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