I love Face/Off!

Rating: 9/10 (28 January 2004)

Really? Do I really like this that much? It's a completely silly action movie, after all, with a premise so ludicrous you really ought to laugh through the film. But I was well into all Nicolas Cage's 90s action output, and he and Travolta have such fun here playing, essentially, each other. Actually, it's a bit of a shame, because Cage has such a good time as Castor Troy in the opening few minutes that you kind of wish he didn't have to relinquish the part. But Woo marshals the action pretty nicely, and the film gets really creepy about half way through too. See this for big explosions and silly plot twists.