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Face/Off

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 18m
  • 82

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Woo

Producer:

Michael Douglas, Jonathan D. Krane, Steven Reuther

Writer:

Mike Werb, Michael Colleary

Release Date:

Jun 27, 1997

Runtime:

2hr 18m

Synopsis

To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent assumes the identity of the criminal who murdered his son through facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up prematurely and vows revenge.

Cast

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

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Metacritic

82
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Based on 26 Critics
8.8

USER SCORE (739)

Universal acclaim based on 739 Reviews
75

There’s no denying that Cage and Travolta are having a blast with what is essentially an acting thought experiment. They’re both fantastic.

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Josh Larsen
LarsenOnFilm
90

Woo's third Hollywood movie, Face/Off, is the first to balance his visual imagination with the emotional intensity of his Hong Kong films.

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Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
75

The high-tech stuff is flawlessly done, but the intriguing elements of the movie involve the performances.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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