Wow, this is fun!

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2017)

Looking back at the time period from 1996 to 2001, we had a lot of bad movies come out, but the ones that were good and really do hold up are all the more awesome. This is one of the greatest action movies I've ever seen. It's my favorite Nicolas Cage movie and my favorite John Travolta movie. I just love this film for how utterly entertaining it is in every way imaginable. It has tons of explosions and great action scene after great action scene. I guess the movie itself isn't very intelligent, but the thing is, there's so much effort put into it!
I love these actors and characters. Travolta and Cage seem to be going absolutely bonkers in this movie with exaggerated facial expressions and yells everywhere. In a lesser film, that would be annoying but here it's just icing on the cake for the great scenery, camera angles, original ideas, and great backstories. I really do sincerely sympathize with these characters and I wanted them to get out okay! The pacing is just incredible. It's pretty long, but it's worth it just to see all this cool stuff go on and on.
The emotions are amazingly strong in this. Every single actor is right there in the moment. They're doing everything they can to understand not just their characters, but each other's characters. The scene with the face transplant is seriously one of the most intense I have ever seen in any movie. Then there's the scene where Cage awakens with no face and we finally get to see him in the reflection. It's such a haunting scene. There's so much variety in all the action and I found myself rooting for these fun and wacky characters. True, a lot of it doesn't make sense, but it's enjoyable popcorn fun from start to finish. ****