Repetitive And Silly

Rating: 2/10 (22 November 2012)

The premise is simple: at an advanced surgery clinic, a captured criminal is sedated and his face surgically removed, then surgically placed onto a policeman who intends to infiltrate the criminal's organization. But then, said criminal wakes up and figures out what had happened, and then manages to force the surgeons to place the policeman's face on him, then he escapes.
Silly (and cliché'd) premise? Try the rest of the movie, which is as silly as any of the old silent Keystone Komedies-no exaggeration. The villain is skinny while the policeman is a fatso-yet we're supposed to believe only the faces were changed. Even the wife is fooled, until she is told to do a blood test on her supposed husband. Then she realizes. And even then, the story amounts to repeated episodes of the hero and villain meeting, then a big messy fight starts, then they separate, and soon meet again and repeats. I was not exaggerating in my comparison to the Keystone Komedies.