INFURIATINGLY BAD!! BAD!!! BADDDD!!!!!

Rating: 1/10 (21 December 2004)

I have always been inclined to judge movies not so much on an absolute scale, but relative to the amount of talent and budget that went into the production. It's one thing when a low-budget effort put together by a bunch of no-talents ends up being a worthless piece of schlock. It's quite another when a big-budget studio production and a cast of compelling actors combine to give the world something that is totally devoid of artistic merit and offers less than zero in entertainment value. Judged by this criteria "Face Off" may well be the worst movie in the history of the universe.
As with all really bad movies the key ingredient here is a really bad script. (Or did they have a script? Maybe they just made up this mess on the fly while they were shooting.) Anyways, the script is totally contrived, implausible, predictable - and any other adjective that applies to a really bad script.
I mean how many times can Travolta and Cage shoot at each other from point blank range in a five-minute sequence and not kill each other? As the insults to one's intelligence kept coming and coming I found myself going from bored to angry. I guess I shouldn't take it so personally. The better thing to do would be to not persevere through the entire length of such a bad picture.