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Release Date: 1997
Cast: Joan Allen, Margaret Cho, Lisa Boyle, Nicolas Cage, CCH Pounder, John Carroll Lynch, Dominique Swain, Colm Feore, Matt Ross, Gina Gershon, Myles Jeffrey, Tommy Flanagan ...MORE
Cast: Joan Allen, Margaret Cho, Lisa Boyle, Nicolas Cage, CCH Pounder, John Carroll Lynch, Dominique Swain, Colm Feore, Matt Ross, Gina Gershon, Myles Jeffrey, Tommy Flanagan, Kirk Baltz, Robert Wisdom, Nick Cassavetes, John Travolta, Alessandro Nivola, Chris Bauer, Thomas Jane, Harve Presnell, Danny Masterson, James Denton ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Science Fiction, Tragedy, Action Thrillers, Action, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Chase Movie
Face/Off is a 1997 action thriller film directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another.
The film exemplifies gun fu and heroic bloodshed action sequences, and has Travolta and Cage each playing two personalities. It was the first Hollywood film in which Woo was given complete creative control and was acclaimed by both audiences and critics. Eventually grossing $245 million worldwide, Face/Off was a financial success.
Freelance terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage)... MORE
Face/Off is a 1997 action thriller film directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another.
The film exemplifies gun fu and heroic bloodshed action sequences, and has Travolta and Cage each playing two personalities. It was the first Hollywood film in which Woo was given complete creative control and was acclaimed by both audiences and critics. Eventually grossing $245 million worldwide, Face/Off was a financial success.
Freelance terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) is relentlessly pursued by FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Archer (John Travolta). Years earlier, Troy, in an attempt to kill Archer, accidentally killed Archer's young son, Michael; the two have been obsessed with each other ever since. The FBI receives information that Castor's brother, Pollux (Alessandro Nivola), has chartered a plane at LAX airport. Archer knows that Pollux will not fly without Castor, so he leads a joint FBI/LAPD team to chase the plane down, which crashes into a hangar. In the ensuing chaos, Pollux is captured by the FBI and Castor is knocked into a coma after bragging to LESS
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