Face / Off
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- Synopsis
- The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the ......
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- Director(s)
- John Woo
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 136 min.
Critic Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites
It's the picture that proves action films don't have to be silly, that a few thrill sequences don't mean every other value has to be shot to pieces.Read the full review
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
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.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites
But it is the steady accretion of hundreds of small moments in this elegant, high-spirited, intensely satisfying production -- the director's third American movie, but the first to approach the dazzle of his Hong Kong stuff -- that, toted up, makes everything right about this des- perately welcome thriller.Read the full review
