Action at Another Level

Rating: 8/10 (27 November 2007)

John Woo normally avoids profoundity and exercising the brain with his films. Yet with "Face/Off" I found his best film and his most deep and intelligent one! Seems that identity crisis is a must, where Cage and Travolta (classic good and evil clash) switch their faces in a constant hunt between them, one to avenge his early son's death and the other to suppress his chaser, to profit on his schemes without being followed.
Both Cage and Travolta are surprising, although both of them play great the part of being Castor Troy. But wait, are u asking me exteriorly or interiorly? Isn't Cage Travolta and the other way? Well, Face/Off requires your patience and holding to the movie's plot. Miss a second, miss the movie. Besides having a fantastic, well thought script, John Woo misses not his straight roots and delivers great shooting scenes, gripping chase scenes and delivers a sense of tension and impotence for wanting to tell everyone in the movie the truth and how real things go.
The scene where both of them are only separated from a mirror is paradoxical, yet enormously symbolic and perfect for the movie. Watch it!