Face/Off
Movie Review:
Castor
Troy has planted a bomb somewhere in LA and only he and
his brother, who invented know where it is. Castor is injured
and goes into a coma after being persued by Sean Archer
into an aircraft hanger and the rest of his gang are captured.
The cops try to find out where the bomb is by questioning
them all but no one will talk. So some bright spark in the
FBI comes up with the idea of transplanting The Cage's face
onto Travolta's so that he can go into the prison and get
the info from Castor Troy's brother.
It
obviously all goes wrong or else there wouldn't be a film.
The Cage wakes up from his coma and puts Travolta's face
onto his head and goes after him and starts to get revenge
on Travolta by living his life for him while Travolta's
stuck in prison He does get out of prison obviously which
results in two hours of excellent film as they both try
to kill each other.
It's
a top idea for a film and both leads pull it off perfectly,
Travolta was slightly more believable as The Cage than the
other way around but they were both good. There was also
plenty of over the top action as you would expect from a
John Woo film with speedboat chases thrown in so as not
to disappoint. There is also a stand- off, a-la Resevoir
Dogs that involved about eight people which made me laugh.
"Ooohhhh, what a predicament."
It
is definitely a film that you can watch multiple times and
never get bored because it has so much going on it. In fact
I might watch it again tommorrow. And anyway The Cage is
in it so it's obviously class.
BBM
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