This has a 7.3 rating from IMDb users unbelievable!

Rating: 5/10 (2 July 2010)

I saw in the theaters when it was released in 1997. I just recently saw it again on cable TV and decided to look up a couple of details. I am truly shocked that the majority of almost 100,000 IMDb users who saw this average action film gave it a 7, 8, 9 or 10 rating! When I originally left the theater, and now years later seeing it again for the second time, I shake my head and wonder why anyone would rate this movie any higher than a 6. Simply put, it is an unexceptional movie... even for a 90s popcorn action flick.
The voting bar for mindless action films MUST be lower than the same for all other genres. That's it. That's got to be the only explanation for the 7.3 rating Face/off currently has.
All you need to know about Face/Off is that it's absolutely NOT John Travolta's, Nic Cage's, or director John Woo's best action movie work, nor is it a movie that ought to be included in a list of the top 10 best popcorn action films of the 90s as the high IMDb rating might indicate.
If you have nothing else to do for 2 hours and 18 minutes and but watch an average action film that has a lot of people jumping in the air shooting guns, extended chase sequences that go on and on and on, and various big explosions but an completely unrealistic and implausible plot lacking any real substance, then be my guest.