BBM at the movies - Face/Off review

     Face/Off       Bush - 8.5
    Score - 8.33      Bates - 8
                            Mahon - 8.5
1997
138 mins
dir - John Woo
stars - John Travolta        - Sean Archer/Castor Troy
            Nicholas Cage       - Castor Troy/Sean Archer
            Joan Allen             - Dr. Eve Archer
            Alessandro Nivola - Pollux Troy

     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 obviouly class.