Absolute Action!

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2003)

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in a John Woo movie. How could this possibly fail? It doesn't  this is probably one of the most enjoyable, high-octane OTT actioners of the last decade.
The plot is fairly out there'  a cop is chasing a known criminal who years earlier shot his son (by mistake). The criminal falls into a coma but has left a bomb big enough to level an entire city. The cop undergoes radical surgery and has the criminal's face grafted onto his own skull, so that he looks exactly like him. He then goes into prison to ask the brother about the bomb.
And that's just the start of the film! It's total brain-out' popcorn fodder, but of the very highest order as Woo pulls out all the stops to create some of the most memorable action sequences in recent memory. The acting is superb (as to be expected of the two leads) and the far-fetched story is surprisingly coherent with a very tight plot.
Excellent fun  and one you could watch over and over.