Face/Off (1997) movie poster

Face/Off (1997)

"In order to trap him, he must become him."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 88%
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Runtime
2h 19m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.1/10 (5,795 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
82

Cast

John Travolta as Sean Archer · 69% avg
Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy · 68% avg
Joan Allen as Eve Archer · 76% avg
Alessandro Nivola as Pollux Troy · 66% avg
Gina Gershon as Sasha Hassler · 67% avg
Dominique Swain as Jamie Archer
Nick Cassavetes as Dietrich Hassler · 73% avg
Harve Presnell as Victor Lazarro · 81% avg

Is Face/Off good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 88%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#331 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#26 / 106 · 1997
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 12 · John Woo

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Face/Off is a 1997 American action thriller directed by John Woo. John Travolta stars as FBI agent Sean Archer, who undergoes a radical surgical procedure to swap faces with his comatose arch-nemesis Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage, to infiltrate Castor's criminal network and locate a bomb planted somewhere in Los Angeles. When Castor wakes up faceless and forces the surgeon to give him Archer's face, each man is trapped in the other's life — Castor-as-Archer infiltrates the FBI while Archer-as-Castor is imprisoned in a maximum-security facility.

Face/Off was the pinnacle of John Woo's Hollywood career, combining his signature Hong Kong action cinema style — dual-wielded pistols, slow-motion doves, balletic gun battles — with the most audacious high-concept premise in 1990s action cinema. John Travolta and Nicolas Cage each played both hero and villain, mimicking each other's mannerisms and physicality with theatrical commitment that made the face-swap concept surprisingly convincing. The Mexican standoff and the speedboat chase were among the decade's most spectacular action sequences.

Face/Off earned $245 million worldwide on a $80 million budget.

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