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Buy This Item Face Off by Paramount  Available from Amazon  $11.99  on 11-25-2008     At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. Reader Reviews I love Face Off and i think that this is the best film Nicholas Cage and even John Travlota has been in ( those that say Grease is his best are clearly not the type of people to be watching a John Woo film ) The action is top notch and the movie is well paced with great acting from all cast members... however this edition has one majour problem and that is the fact that they have not removed ANY of the wires used in stunts and it really kills the movie TRUST ME. I have the one disk edition as well and i must say the 'special' features were nothing 'special' If you love action movies id probably reccomend this on VHS or even grabbing a DVD copy of 'A fist full of bullets'

Face Off Available from Amazon Price: $11.99 Updated on 11-25-2008.

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