Face/Off

Name: Face/Off
Duration: 2 h 18 min

2hr 18m

2hr 18m
3.6/5 (59.6K)
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To foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent assumes the identity of the criminal who murdered his son via facial transplant surgery, but the crook wakes up… More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Woo

Producer:

Terence Chang, Christopher Godsick, Barrie M. Osborne

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 via 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

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.6

RATINGS 1.9K FANS

3.6

Mar 2, 2015

A once-in-a-lifetime great idea of combining two of the strangest American movie stars at the peak of their interest in exaggerated experimentation, giving them a legitimately deranged sci-fi melodrama spec script involving literally wearing each other like a skinsuit…

3.8K Likes

Josh Lewis

Feb 20, 2018

My favorite thing about this film and, trust me, I have a lot of favorite things about it, is that Woo actually got Travolta to say the fine line, "Well, think about me. This nose. This hair. This ridiculous chin."

3.5K Likes

Eli Hayes

Aug 12, 2019

“i want to take his face ... off”

3.4K Likes

andy levy
May 8, 2018

Some families hug, some families kiss, and some families just rub their hands on each others faces.

2.1K Likes

Genasai

Mar 2, 2014

"Please tell me what planet I'm on!" planet Woo.

1.7K Likes

matt lynch

Nicolas Cage and John Travolta switch faces and spend almost two and a half hours trying to kill each other. This is a five star movie.

1.7K Likes

Dan Ryckert
Jan 14, 2021

I can’t count how many times we all said “if I was in this situation I would just kill myself”

1.6K Likes

Megan Bitchell

Dec 10, 2024

wouldn’t the wife notice his penis was different

1.5K Likes

amelia marino

May 31, 2016

90/100 Even if we do find what's over the rainbow, I doubt it's better than this.

1.2K Likes

SilentDawn

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Based on 26 Critics

8.8

USER SCORE (739)

Universal acclaim based on 739 Reviews

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

Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

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

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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