The most fun watching an action movie you'll have!

Rating: 9/10 (10 September 2015)

At its worst, action is crammed in just to showcase some special effects and extensive car chases. But at its best, we have a crazy wild ride to invest ourselves in! This is the latter case.
The opening is the darkest part of the movie. We have a happy father going on the carnival with his son, and suddenly his boy is shot... Castor Troy, the killer, unfortunately gets away. Until one day, when Sean Archer finally catches him! But there is one problem left: Troy planted a bomb which will destroy Los Angeles and Archer is the only one who can stop it! The best way to do it though? Going undercover as Troy by undergoing a surgery where Archer's face is cut off and replaced by Troy. And even getting a voice box so he can talk like him. However, more trouble stirs up when the real Castor wakes up and forces the doctor to give him Archer's face as well. And what we have are two faces with the wrong personalities...
The plot sounds ludicrous, doesn't it? But that's also part of the charm! It's so impossibly complicated, yet the movie manages to make it work. And it's all thanks to the hilarious dialogue throughout, which is a mix of delicate wit, flat-out bizarreness and dark humor. In fact, this movie has so many laughs that it's a mystery why it's never listed as a comedy. John Travolta gets to go completely nuts with this movie as he for one of the few times in his career plays a villain. Equally, maybe even more, great is Nicolas Cage as his counterpart. He has shown that he can both be a great, great actor and someone who is just very entertaining to watch. Here, he is both! He is WAY over-the-top, and still you completely buy it. He hands out one of the greatest performances of his life.
There are a few other side characters I really like too, such as Pollux Troy, Jamie Archer and Dietrich, who by the way has one of the best lines in the movie ("Hey Sean, how's your dead son?"). Almost every single character is exaggerated and sometimes you are not sure if the movie is self-aware or takes itself very seriously. Either way, it's a wonderful movie!
The one weak aspect I guess would be that the ending is not very good, as it's very cheesy and doesn't fit with the rest of the movie. Thankfully, there's an alternate ending, which I thought was far better. So I guess the movie is as awesome as it could be after all!