"Power With"

Rating: 8/10 (3 October 2005)

Obviously, the key to enjoying the movie is getting past the absurdity it is based on. After you get over it, it's a good action movie to watch for its pretty slow motion scenes and boat chase and so on.
However, I do suggest, if you're watching this for your first time, or for the 4892307234th... look out for symbolism and the like. Face/Off may come off as your classic, fake, cliché action flick, but if you take a minute to look deeper into portions of the movie, you'll find symbolisms, commentary, parallelisms, and irony that will knock your socks off; the story is woven thick.
Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this movie was the recurring concept of the dominant vs the subordinant (Archer is dominant, Troy is subordinant), conveying the idea that the oppressor can learn just as much from the oppressed as the oppressed is supposed to learn from the oppressor. The idea of Castor and Sean switching places gives the film an incredible angle to get at things like this. But that's just one tiny aspect of everything. Check it out with an open mind and see for yourself. Itll blow you away.