rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1997
Directed by John Woo; produced by Terence Chang, Christopher Godsick, Barrie M. Osborne, David Permut; written by Mike Werb, Michael Colleary
Starring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Alessandro Nivola, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes
John Woo's best American outing is 'Face/Off', an implausible but highly kinetic piece of entertainment. It stars John Travolta and Nicolas Cage at their wicked best in many perfectly presented action sequences. In between the film takes small pauses to actually say something, sort of, before the mayhem continues. Finally Woo's trademarks, including the slow motion images, work the way they should be and do not feel corny in a ridiculous plot ('Broken Arrow').
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