An Insanely Unique Action Film

Rating: 10/10 (13 February 2020)

Face/Off is from the director of Broken Arrow, John Woo, and I can definitely say it is just as awesome and entertaining as Broken Arrow in terms of story, action, acting, and pacing.
Face/Off is about a terrorist, Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage) that attempts to kill FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta), but ends up killing his son. Then years go by and Sean finally catches Castor and knocks him out cold. Castor is then put in a coma, and Sean finds out that Castor has a bomb planted somewhere, and the only people that know about it is Castor himself and his brother, Pollux (Alessandro Nivola). Sean then goes into a procedure where doctors remove his face, and put Castor's face on to Sean's so that he can go to a prison to find out info about the bomb from Pollux. Then Castor wakes up with no face, forces the doctors to put Sean's face on to his, and he torches everything so that no one knows about the procedure. Now it is up to Sean (in Castor's body) to stop Castor (in Sean's body) as Castor has some deliciously evil plans up his sleeves.
Face/Off has such an awesome concept to it. I love the whole idea of the hero and villan switching faces and personalities. On top of that, the story was very well constructed and put together neatly.
The acting is very good from everyone. Really Travolta and Cage are the only two recognizable actors in this film, but everyone else did a great job. I didn't even mind Cage as he was crazy and bizarre at times in the film. He did a neat job at doing that.
The action, just like Broken Arrow, is the best part of the movie. It has quite a bit of explosions, gun firing, violence, etc. I love how, also like Broken Arrow, we get an incredible showdown between the villan and the hero towards the end.
Bottom line, Face/Off is a wicked cool action film and is just as amazing as Broken Arrow on so many levels.