'Bag guys' roles are more suitable for Cage and Travolta

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2000)

There are actors who can play both bad and good guys. There are also those who can play just bad guys but they're sometimes offered to play good ones. Both Cage and Travolta are rather 'bad guys' actors. It was fun for me to see a good guy (initially Travolta, FBI agent and a good father and husband) getting Cage's face and gazing at himself at the mirror in an innocent astonishment (it's just after you saw Cage as a bandit in the beginning of the movie). Vice versa, initial Travolta looks not natural until he gets into the gangster's skin. Maybe it's a matter of habits, but I would really prefer to see these two actors playing bad guys. All the other movies where they were peaceful and good (or just such scenes) didn't grip me at all.
Nevertheless, the action itself is great, I did enjoy the movie in general. It's the action which is more important than the credibility of technical achievements. But the drama was not the best thing to include in the movie. Without it, I would have given 8. With it, only 7.