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Face/Off

Face / Off

1997

John Woo

John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon ...

6.1

94,845

Action. Thriller FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) knows how to stop elusive terrorist Castor Troy (Cage). He'll become him. Archer undergoes a futuristic surgery and has Troy's face mapped onto his, then infiltrates the terrorist's world to discover his deadly secrets. But as much as Archer looks and acts like Troy, he doesn't really know him. He never figures Troy will retaliate and force doctors to transform him into Archer. Now the agent faces a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A mega-movie that actually delivers what mega-movies promise: strong characters, smart plotting, breathless action and a gimmick that hasn't been seen before."	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"A delirious mixture of spectacular gun battles, furious explosions and breathtaking stunt work (...) You have to take your hat off to Paramount Studios for allowing such inspired weirdness to see the light of day."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"In its best moments, 'Face/Off' practically mainlines fury, leaving audiences no time to think or even breathe."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"You may not buy the premise or the windup, but with Travolta and Cage taking comic and psychic measures of their characters and their own careers, there is no resisting 'Face/Off'."	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A provocative premise, virtuoso direction and two dazzling lead performances go a long way toward offsetting a lack of dramatic structure and a sense of when to quit"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The high-tech stuff is flawlessly done, but the intriguing elements of the movie involve the performances (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Adam Smith Empire	"If the knowing sharpness of the script is one strength, the action sequences - which simply set a new benchmark - are another (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Travolta hasn’t been this mesmerizing a star, or this good an actor, since 'Pulp Fiction' (...) 'Face/Off' makes bad movies look worse"	POS
United States	Paul Martinovic Den of Geek	"It works, because after the initial exposition scenes (...) this lunatic conceit is explored in a series of ways that are at worst dramatically interesting ways and at best genuinely clever."	POS
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"'Face/Off' is a summer movie extraordinaire: violent, imaginative, crazily funny and, even more surprising, oddly moving"	POS
United Kingdom	Martyn Glanville BBC	"It's a fascinating film in so many ways (...) Woo's action sequences (and there are many) are just beautiful (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"[It] is such a blast that at times I forgot I was watching a John Woo movie (...) The action in 'Face/Off' is dazzlingly fluid"	POS

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