Face/Off (1997)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Jun 27, 1997

Running Time: 138 mins. (V)

Running Time: 150 mins. (NYT)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch

director: John Woo, Billy Burton

An FBI covert terrorism expert, through advanced plastic surgery, assumes the identity of his arch-nemesis, a sadistic terrorist. Things get complicated when the terrorist awakens from surgery, faceless, and forces the doctors to attach the FBI agent's face. Both characters then carry out one another's lives in a game of cat-and-mouse--the FBI agent pretends to be the terrorist while trying to locate and dismantle a nuclear weapon, while the terrorist assumes the role of FBI agent and family man.

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Hong Kong master blaster John Woo follows Hard Target and Broken Arrow with his third American film, and he's clicking on all cylinders. Exciting and then some, Face/Off blends the director's supercharged images of balletic brutality and spiritual catharsis with an off-the-wall humor that allows John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to really let it rip. Scenes of high-voltage action vie with wild hilarity as two guys with guns switch faces and identities. It's a twisted take on Ingmar Bergman's Person…