Face Off

This action movie is about a criminal and an agent of FBI, that swap faces and identities.

Face Off (1997) is an action movie with rare concepts and radical ideas loaded with action and emotional aspect of a hero and a villain. A best action movie paired with the best actors in Hollywood.

Face Off is about Sean Archer (played by John Travolta), an FBI terrorism expert whose passion is to bring down Castor Troy (played by Nicolas Cage), a terrorist that planted a bomb in Los Angeles area and also the one who killed his son in one of their encounters.

Years passed when Archer founds out that Troy had a bomb hidden somewhere in LA and he is in comatose. He then decided to undergo facial surgery, swapping Troy's facial features to his own forgetting the consequences that might happen. That way, Archer (as Troy) would try to locate the bomb through Troy's brother Pollux (played by Alessandro Nivola) whose in prison. Things get complicated when Troy recovered from his coma and found out that his face was replaced by Archer's. Now the terrorist assumes the role of the FBI agent and vice versa.

For an action movie, Face Off set out an impressive action sequences. The direction of John Woo in the movie's breathtaking scenes are remarkable. He used slow motion style that eventually enhances the effectiveness of the scenes. Aside from the turbulent action scenes in the movie, its emotional aspect is also impressive.

MOVIE CRITIC REVIEW:

"An action picture that finally pleases the mind as well as the eye."

Madeleine Williams
CINEMATTER


"A rather standard, but intelligent, action movie."

Ram Samudrala
Movie Ram-blings