My all-time favorite movie

Rating: 9/10 (4 July 2013)

Hey, guys! This is not a chick-flick movie and for sure you're not going to say, "It's lame, so boring!" Face/off is a hardcore, breath-taking; action, crime, thriller movie directed by John Woo in 1997. John Woo is known for Mission Impossible II with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. I love this movie; it's one of Nicolas Cage's movies I've ever watched aside from Con Air. This movie is all about this tough federal bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, Sean Archer (John Travolta), who has been chasing to seize Caster Troy (Nicolas cage), the terrorist who has no conscience, mastermind behind bombings, assassinations, murder, kidnapping and the most dangerous and most brilliant criminal. John Travolta and his team found a way to capture Caster Troy (Nicolas Cage) through this black bag operation, but nobody should ever know about this suicidal operation, not even Sean Archer's wife, Dr. Eve Archer (Joan Allen). It's a plastic surgery procedure at Walsh Institute supervised by Dr. Walsh. The procedure will remove and switch each other's face. Meaning John Travolta will be Nicolas Cage and vice versa. Nicolas Cage planted a bomb at the L.A. Convention that only he and his brother Pollux Troy (Alessandro Nivola), know and the government is trying to figure out where this bomb is at. Meanwhile, after Caster Troy and his brother's police encounter at the private plane port, a plane's exhaust running hot, hit Caster Troy's body towards a huge screen vents which made him suffer comatose, but they caught Pollux Troy. FBI agents tried to interrogate people related to Caster Troy to find out the location of the bomb. Sean Archer even threat Sasha (Gina Gershon), Troy's girlfriend, that if she will not tell the truth, he'll take away her child. Sasha's brother asked Archer about his dead son, he's convince that Troy annihilate his son. Now, Sean Archer doesn't have any choice, but to say yes to their secluded mission. Agent Hollis convinced Sean Archer to do it, since Caster Troy is a turnip and he is the only one who can deactivate the bomb and besides, this will be the only way penalize and emplace Caster Troy behind bars from killing his loving son, Michael. Sean Archer went home to see his wife and daughter Jaime before the operation, he said, "I'll be gone for a while;" and promised that it will be the last and he will definite spend more time with his family. Sean Archer wished to Dr. Walsh; to put his gun shot scar back on his chest because it reminds him of his son, and gave Tito (FBI agent), his wedding ring; they've trimmed Archer's hair and planted a microchip into his larynx to duplicate Troy's voice. Archer didn't like wearing his enemy's face, he abruptly became violent, threw hospital mirror scintillating, cussed and swear everyone and cried, and knowing the next move is to lift him to Arrow One prison. There Archer is a citizen of nowhere, wearing a pair of boots made of metal, locked down on the floor surrounded by a ground full of magnetic field so, there's no way to escape.
Meanwhile, at the Walsh Institute where they kept Caster Troy, he miraculously woke up from coma; removed his bandage and felt blood on his face. He called his friend with a husky, shaking, voice and told him that someone took his face off with a help of a doctor and two FBI agents. They abduct Dr. Walsh and the other two agents behind the operation, tied them up, poured gasoline on them and burnt them alive together with the evidences that will prove Sean Archer's real personality. In the Arrow One prison, Sean Archer got a visitor—it's Caster Troy wearing his face and wedding ring, laughing crazy on how their mission failed and told Sean Archer (Troy's face), "I've got a government job to abuse and a wife to f***! Isn't that amazing?" teasing and making him mad. Archer's now finding out how to escape Arrow One prison to tell his wife Eve that he's Sean Archer.
Face/Off is a great, action packed movie, tons of enigmatic scenes and stunts, big actors involved, with 7.3 stars, received lots of awards, a MUST watch movie.