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Summary: A Superb Action Film
Review: Travolta and Cage - how much more perfect can it be? This awesome, riveting story starts at Travolta's local couty fair and the roller coaster gets stuck on top of the chain lift. Travolta goes to help, but then Cage comes and tries to murder Travolta. There are many fights with great special effects, and the end is very un-predictable. Also, the roller coaster Face Off at Pareamount's Kings Island is great - it goes 55 m.p.h, 875 ft. of track, but there can be a long wait.
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Summary: Great waste of two hours!Thanks Woo!
Review: I used to love John Woo. Hard Boiled and The Killer were so amazing and fresh when I saw them for the first time. Hong Kong crime cinema in the early 90's was a breath of fresh air. Now Woo is in America directing big named actors in big-budget Hollywood money making films...I'll stick to the early stuff, thanks. My friend LOVES this film. My friend also loves Pauly Shore films, so that doesn't mean much. If you want to see Nicolas Cage sent to a "secret prison" where everyone wears magnetic boots, buy this masterpiece! They trade faces and apparently bodies also. Woo uses his best stunts from his Hong Kong days as the two overpaid actors run around with double pistols killing everyone in sight except each other. The scene where 30 FBI agents are killed by one gun-slinging woman would be funny if it weren't so insulting to the men that train year-round for tactical combat situations. This movie made a ton of money, we all saw it and Hollywood has won once again! Hurray!
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Summary: Cage is Awesome!
Review: Some people have seen this movie and thought that the plot was way too unreasonalbe and unthinkable to be good. Those same people have regarded very strange yet not unreasonable movies like A Clockwork Orange and The Matrix with much respect. This movie deserves an equal opinion shared by those two classics just mentioned. Cage is spectacular as a paranoid prisoner in the body of a serial killer. This movie keeps you out of your seat through its entirety and is a must see.
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Summary: Refreshing
Review: The ridiculously over-the-top storyline was a joy to watch, not to mention one of the best directorial performances I have ever seen. The way Jon Woo sees scenes is totally different to anything I've seen before, and really refreshing. Can't finish without mentioning the great acting performances by Cage and Travolta, who slip into each other's characters masterfully and with style.
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE, ONE OF THOUGHS "SMART MOVIES"
Review: This is a great plot for a movie, it will catch your attention 10 minutes into it. You will really like it alot!
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Summary: The best Hollywood action movie ever
Review: This is the most novel premise for an action movie I've ever seen. Admittedly it may lack something in plausibilty, and a lot of people have vocally complained about this, but I don't really see the problem. This is a great movie, full of inspired acting, brilliant scripting and, more importantly, action. Lots and lots of action. The amount and quality of action only Hong Kong director John Woo could manage. The magnificently choreographed gunfights and artistic use of slow motion make for some of the greatest scenes I've ever seen. Probably the only weak link in the movie is that Nicholas Cage is a much more compelling villain than John Travolta, so it kind of stings to have Castor Troy build up so much momentum that then gets lost once he starts wearing Sean Archer's face. Still, don't be fooled by all the philistines out there. See this movie, you won't regret it.
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Summary: stupid but brilliant
Review: now lets see one cop hates a terrorist who killed his son so in order to get him he switches faces with him.......... yes i know its crazy.but this film has brilliant action sequences and great in movie jokes and dialog. nic cage and travolta are both great and john woo's directing is great even if you dont like this stuff.although after 30 slow motion action scenes and bloody gun wounds you do get a bit bored.but if i was you id switch off your brain and enjoy!
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Summary: Monumentally Boring, Monumentally Preposterous
Review: This is one of the worst things I've ever seen. It's not just the silliness of the plot premise, but the massive holes throughout the plot, even if you could accept the premise.And after the 12th slow motion, 10-minute long gun battle scene this thing gets reaaaallllllly boooorrrrrring. Has to be one of the most over-rated films ever.
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Summary: This is a horrible, horrible "movie"
Review: Let me start off by saying I have nothing against John Travolta (although i did not like Pulp Fiction), and Nicholas Cage is still one of my favorite performers. Actually, they both give good, twisting performances in this film. That said, Face/Off is an overblown, mind-numbing experiment gone wrong. Granted, the first 15-20 minutes proceed well, with Cage as a dancing priest and the first-half of the airport chase/shootout. But this film so rapidly deteriorates into a series of almost every bad action movie cliche sewn together. Poorly. There are far too many bad moments to list here. Is it the easy escape from the inescapable prison? Is it the heavy-handed use of a Disney tune during a shootout? Is it the fact that even the even the most disinterested of wives could tell if someone were impersonating her husband? Maybe an exhausting boat chase. No wait, perhaps a standoff at a church? This movie takes "ridiculous" to a whole new level. People will say that often we need to check our brains at the door, and just enjoy a movie. With Face/Off, that is not possible (as it is with say, Independence Day) because it seems like it wants to be taken seriously, and it doesn't have enough of a sense of humor for us (me) to take it otherwise. Fans of this flick are more often that not fans of the two leads, or worship at the feet of director John Woo. I don't know much about Mr. Woo -- except that M:I 2 was mediocre, but not offensively bad like this -- but his brand of so-called stylized violence can't save this sinking ship of a film any more than nice clothes could rescue Wild Wild West. Please, do yourself a favor...avoid Face/Off on film, tape, dvd, cable, and/or broadcast tv. It is just that BAD!
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Summary: Absurd but fun romp
Review: The premise of this film is absoutely ludicrous, that John Travola and Nicolas Cage can swap faces (and voices) and pass effectively as one another's characters. Of course, this could never happen--their bone structure is quite different, even if the problems of tissue rejection could be overcome. Once you accept that absurdity, then the film is fun. Cage is totally over the top in his acting, and Travolta is not far behind; and of course Woo is way, way over the top with his direction--but if you are a Woo fan, you've seen a lot of this before. Still, it is stylish, and there is some interesting exploration of the character's reaction to their situation. Worth a look, just hold your logic in check; and be sure to call me when the technology becomes available to the general public. Now, I've got to find a willing donor....
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