General Statement

Rating: 9/10 (15 January 2006)

As a young filmmaker myself, this movie not only catches me with the suspense and action but the overall plot is pretty good. Yeah there were a few goofs but if you're trying to keep up with the story and enjoy the sequences rather than spot and bash them you wont really notice. John Woo has a particular habit of bringing these wicked action scenes but needs to keep in mind the overall "realism" of them. Sure its just a movie, and maybe his flaws are deliberate but we don't want to be reminded of those two facts. I haven't just seen this movie recently, nor have i just seen it once, in my opinion this is probably one the best action films ever made. Considering that two years later "The Matrix" and well lets face it. It was pretty action packed with those subtle biblical references. But the problem with that movie...almost everything was CG, and in a movie like Face/Off we see those eye popping thrills that make this film a great. In the end, its a good movie, a little cliché but hey, that's Hollywood.