A most entertaining movie.

Rating: Null/10 (2 November 2002)

John Woo directs his best action movie to date starring John Travolta (Pulp Fiction, Saturday Night Fever) and Nicholas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, The Rock). Cage's character Castor Troy is a terrorist and has hidden a bomb inside a large skyscraper, Travolta's Archer tracks Castor down in a show-off in an airfield while Castor is trying to escape. Archer knocks Castor unconscience during the fight, therefor he cannot interrogate Castor as to the location of the skyscraper bomb. Castor's brother Prevlux is the only other person who knows the location of the bomb. To retrieve the information Travolta unwillingly accepts the surgical procedure that replaces faces between Archer and Troy. Troy is left in his coma like sleepness at the lab with Archer's face and meanwhile Archer looks like Troy and infiltrates a prison where Prevlux is being held. Prevlux soon finds out Archer is a fake, but not before he gives him the location of the bomb. Troy wakes up, kills the science crew and destroys all information about the surgical procedure, now he has basically illegally assumed the full identity of Archer, and has access to Archer's work and family. Archer must fight back, being noticed always as Troy, he must win his friends and his family back, and must kill Troy.
Action packed from start to finish, literally. More entertaining than Titantic which was released the same year. This movie remains on most people's top 10 action movie lists, and for good reason. Action isn't all that this movie has to offer. Diverse character acting, supreme plot without flaws, and enviornments that fit almost too perfectly into the story. This is a must see for any action fan, you will love Nicholas Cage's work in this movie, he really steals the show.