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Face/Off 1997 123movies

Face/Off 1997 123movies

In order to trap him, he must become him.Jun. 27, 1997138 Min.
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Watch: Face/Off 1997 123movies, Full Movie Online – Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent, is still grieving for his dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son’s killer is his sworn enemy and a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor, however, their fight has knocked out Troy cold. As Archer finally breathes easy over the capture of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor’s brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. The solution, a special operation doctor that can cut off people’s faces, and can place a person’s face onto another person. Archer undergoes one of those surgeries to talk to Pollux. However, Castor Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge on Archer for taking his face. Not only is Troy ruining Archer’s mission, but his personal life as well. Archer must stop Troy again. This time, it’s personal..
Plot: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind, who murdered his only son. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
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7.3/10 Votes: 377,659
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82/100 | MetaCritic
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A quality all-out action film!

‘Face/Off’ isn’t one that’ll stick out in my memory as something deep meaning, incredibly written or anything of the sort. However, as an action film it’s superb. There’s barely a chance to rethink what you’ve just seen due to the prevalent and manic nature of onscreen events. You also have fascinating performances from the two leads.

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta are awesome in this. I won’t spoil the plot, but all I will say is that those two bring it to life brilliantly – it felt, at least to me, very believable; which is impressive. Across the opening portion I thought it was going to be Cage stealing the show, but as things progress Travolta really comes up big to match Cage.

Away from NC and JT, there isn’t really anything to scream about cast-wise; although, I gotta give shoutouts to Mike Delfino and Gavin Harris; if you know, you know.

Nothing much more to note, to be honest. The terrific action means I’d highly recommend this.

Review By: r96sk

It’s like looking in a mirror, only, not.

There’s a tendency to undervalue the action movie. Certainly there’s a wide expanse of land in cinema world where film fans reside, where the thought of praising an action film for being “classic” cinema is considered treason against the very word. Yet some of the artistry involved in the genre’s leading lights is purely sublime, regardless of how bizarre and unlikely the plot is. Enter John Woo’s berserker, ear splitting, high octane actioner, Face/Off. Rightly sitting along side the likes of Die Hard and Predator as genre pieces that showcase how good things can be when it all comes together, Woo’s movie is as much fun as you could wish to have for over two hours of explosive, fantastical, unadulterated cinema.

The plot sees John Travolta’s serious family man cop, Sean Archer, devote his life to catching unbalanced maniacal bad guy Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage). There’s some bad history between the two and when Archer manages to capture both Troy and his equally vile brother, Pollux (Alessandro Nivola), it would seem to be closure for Archer and his family. However, it’s found that the Troy’s have left a ticking bomb somewhere in Los Angeles, and if undetected it will flatten L.A. and kill practically everyone. So, Archer undergoes a revolutionary face-swapping procedure with the now comatose Castor and sets about getting the information from the incarcerated Pollux. But wait!, Castor wakes up and turns the tables by assuming Archer’s identity, setting the wheels in motion for each man to live the others life until the Face/Off between the pair will decide their respective fate.

Unbelievable? Of course. Who cares? Well nobody should really, because surely going into a film like this one is expecting the ludicrous. Both Cage and Travolta are superbly realising the spectacular nature of the script, and being mesmerising in the duality of the roles into the bargain. Make no bones about it, Woo and his team have crafted a benchmark action movie. There’s a trail of thought that suggests that Woo basically keeps making the same movie, that’s a fair enough point, sure enough, all of his staple action sequences and traits are evident in Face/Off. Yet Woo has delved into his characters, given them some flesh on their action bones, and then upped the anti in action set pieces to cloak them in chaotic beauty. From the opening Jet escape/pursuit set up, to the outrageous speed boat finale, the film is one long exhilarating breath taker. Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain & Nick Cassavetes all file into the background playing important characters who are rightly secondary to the protagonists, while a ream of extras come and go as each are dispatched in a hail of Woo inspired carnage. The pace never sags and the eyes and ears are treated to a vibrancy that is often sadly missing from many other big budgeted action blockbusters.

This is a masterpiece of action cinema, so even as a Orson Welles crane shot is a magnificent thing, so it be with the sight of two stunt men flailing thru the air in a spray of exploding water. Oh yes sir, this is a classic alright. 10/10

Review By: John Chard
“Face/Off” – Identity crisis?
A movie about a hockey match, this isn’t.

1997’s “Face/Off,” the third (and to this date, most successful) American feature from Hong Kong action director John Woo, is everything a fan of Woo’s Asian work could possibly hope for. It’s a loud, fast-paced, and spectacularly violent epic helmed by a master craftsman. And even with this ambitious third American feature, it is vastly on par with the director’s Hong Kong work and is very easily one of the best films of his career.

Woo made a name for himself back in Asia as the director of hyper-stylized, hard-hitting pot-boiler action films like “The Killer” (1989) and “Hard Boiled” (1992), where he made an art form of dual-pistol-wielding gun-play and action shoot-’em-up. You want action? John Woo is your man to go to. He made his first American feature with Jean-Claude Van Damme in “Hard Target” (1993) and followed it up with “Broken Arrow” in 1996. Now we’re at “Face/Off.”

“Face/Off” stars a daring and intrepid Los Angeles F.B.I. agent named Sean Archer (John Travolta), who for the last six years has been on the trail of psycho freelance terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) after he killed Archer’s young son. So when Archer finally captures Troy (who’s put into a coma as a result) within the film’s opening 20 minutes, Archer thinks it’s the last of his arch-nemesis.

But of course it’s not over, not by a long shot. The screenplay by writers Mike Webb and Michael Colleary throws us a curve-ball in the form of something write out of a sci-fi medical novel: to save L.A. from biological annihilation, Archer must become his enemy and learn the location of said biological payload. Archer trades physical identities with Troy bu undergoing a radical surgical procedure to get Troy’s sociopath younger brother Pollux (Alessandro Nivola) to give up the goods.

However, Troy comes out of his coma and assumes Archer’s identity as an F.B.I. man, a job he comes to love and abuses with joyful glee, and even gets cozy with Archer’s neglected wife Eve (Joan Allen) and daughter Jamie (Dominique Swain). His first move is to destroy all the evidence that proves each man’s true identity and seemingly leaves no way to reverse the procedures when he kills everyone involved in the mission (how sick and twisted is he, anyway?). His next plan is to systematically eliminate his old allies to afford protection for himself and his brother. In the meantime, Archer (as Castor) is left to rot in a federal prison that the Geneva Convention doesn’t know exists and has to find a way to get out to defeat his nemesis once and for all, even if it means actually “becoming” him, and using Troy’s old buddies to his advantage. You want to talk about identity crisis?

10 years after its release, this movie is still as balletic and energetic, action-packed and exciting as it was all those years ago. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage were perfectly cast as the perfect hero and perfect villain in what was one of the hottest action movies of that year. The only problem is, though, both actors enjoy switching their roles and playing off each other in a vicious blood feud, although it seems that Travolta was having the most fun here, leaving Cage a little hard-pressed to remain on the sidelines as the hero. Hot off their success in movies such as “Pulp Fiction” (1994) and “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995), Travolta revels in Cage’s bad guy performance (even if Cage is Cage and Travolta is Travolta – for only about 20 minutes each). Coldly sadistic and over-the-edge/brave and determined, you can tell who likes things best.

The film’s action scenes, which there are plenty of, is where “Face/Off” chiefly excels at. Woo brings much of the gusto and gun-play loved by so many in his native land to a place that’s foreign. Perhaps this is why his two earlier efforts may have been failures here in the U.S. (Yet, third time’s a charm, right?) As if crises of identity weren’t enough, Woo seemed to be going through a transformation himself, adjusting his craft for American audiences.

But with “Face/Off,” Woo proves to be at the top of his game, since he has the right actors, the right action and special effects, and the right stuff to pull it all off.

10/10

Review By: dee.reid

Other Information:

Original Title Face/Off
Release Date 1997-06-27
Release Year 1997

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 18 min (138 min)
Budget 80000000
Revenue 245676146
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Director John Woo
Writer Mike Werb, Michael Colleary
Actors John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 22 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS (uncredited)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arriflex 435, Panavision Primo and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Gold II, Panavision Primo and E-Series Lenses, Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo and E-Series Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,803 m (Sweden), 3,960 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Face/Off 1997 123movies
Original title Face/Off
TMDb Rating 7.007 4,439 votes

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