- Actors: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon
- Directors: John Woo
- Writers: Michael Colleary, Mike Werb
- Producers: Barrie M. Osborne, Christopher Godsick, David Permut, Jeff Levine, Jonathan D. Krane
- Format: PAL, Dolby, Surround Sound
- Language English, Latin
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Buena Vista
- VHS Release Date: 1 Oct 1999
- Run Time: 138 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CW82
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,450 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
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-barrelled 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. --Sean Axmaker
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Face/Off [VHS] [1997].
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
These are 3 of the best Cage films that exist. The Rock features Nicolas Cage as a bio-chemicals specialist (along with being a beatles maniac), and Sean Connery, the only man to have ever escaped from the most secure jail in the world - Alcatraz. Now, after some members of the public have been held hostage, Connery needs to be the only man to have ever broken into the place! It's a brilliant film offering something for everyone including adventure, excitement, comedy... and Cage! Face/Off is another classic film. John Travolta and Nick Cage star together impecibly. A fantastic storyline offering the viewer suspense, drama, brilliant acting and an intense thriller! Gone in 60 seconds is a 'must-see'. After Cage's brother gets into trouble, the only man that can save him is Nick! To do this, he needs to reunite his old friends and if that's not enough, steal 50 cars in just one very short night! Watch this film if you like amazing acting, comedy, and of course... cars!
3 wonderful films bringing complete entertainment into your home!
3 wonderful films bringing complete entertainment into your home!
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Good film - but you need to buy the US release to avoid the censorship cuts. US version is unfortunately region coded. What is the point of region coding older films apart from being able to charge more in the UK? In fact what is the point of region coding period.
UPDATE : I wrote this review ages ago and have stumbled across some comments which warrant a response. The current US version is NOT region coded, as pointed out. (I think the initial pressing was, at the time of writting, but the US version is now a Paramount release which is region free).
The BBFC website shows if films are cut. Sometimes the guidance changes and previous cuts are waived, this is noted in any new classifications. There is no mention of previous cuts waived. With older releases such as this, it is sometimes more difficult to establish if there are cuts, as the video version will be labelled as 'uncut', but there will be a note indicating 'as UKCV', so you then need to check if the UK cinema version was cut. Sometimes this note is not there, so although the BBFC entry might say 'passed with no cuts' there are caveats to this. Unless the reclassification says 'all previous cuts waived' then tread with caution.
UPDATE : I wrote this review ages ago and have stumbled across some comments which warrant a response. The current US version is NOT region coded, as pointed out. (I think the initial pressing was, at the time of writting, but the US version is now a Paramount release which is region free).
The BBFC website shows if films are cut. Sometimes the guidance changes and previous cuts are waived, this is noted in any new classifications. There is no mention of previous cuts waived. With older releases such as this, it is sometimes more difficult to establish if there are cuts, as the video version will be labelled as 'uncut', but there will be a note indicating 'as UKCV', so you then need to check if the UK cinema version was cut. Sometimes this note is not there, so although the BBFC entry might say 'passed with no cuts' there are caveats to this. Unless the reclassification says 'all previous cuts waived' then tread with caution.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
This film I honestly thought was the best action thriller I have ever seen, with amazing gun fights, excellent stunts and a brilliant plot. John Travalta is Sean Archer, a top FBI Agent who was just brought to justice the killer of his young son, Castor Troy. But there is a complication. Although his family can settle down and live in peace, there is a bomb planted somewhere in LA but only Castor and his buddies know where. To solve this, Archer agrees to a ridiculous operation to have his face swapped with Castor's (who is in a coma), his voice and his hair aswell. As Archer goes undercover as Castor in a high-force prison, he finds out information about the whereabouts of the bomb. But then the real Castor wakes out of his coma and burns all the documents that prove the face-swap ever happened and kills all the people who know about it. Sean soon realises that he is stuck in jail, whilst Castor lives his life. As further complications ensue, the action and stunts of John Woo get better and better. Both Nicholas Cage and John Travolta have to act each other's characters and do it very well when they must. This film is absolutely brilliant. BUY IT NOW!!!
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FACE/OFF
GREAT CLASSIC FILM. I WAS NEVER A WATCHER OF NICOLAS CAGE FILMS UNTIL I HAPPENED ON THIS ONE A FEW YEARS AGO, AND ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!! Read more
Published 7 months ago by MISS JOANNA M SHEEHY
Brilliant over the top masterpiece
John Travolta is the dogged FBI man who finally catches his man in Nicholas Cages supervillian, one problem though hes planted a biological weapon somewhere in California and with... Read more
Published 9 months ago by ekb
Epic Film!
If you haven't seen this film and you want to know if it's any good, then all i can say is that it's basically one of the best films ever made, in my opinion anyway. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Josh
It's like looking in a mirror, only, not.
There's a tendency to undervalue the action movie. Certainly there's a wide expanse of land in cinema world where film fans reside; where the thought of praising an action film for... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Spike Owen
great film
Its a really good film that i enjoy watching so i got it on dvd and have loved having it to watch when i feel, the dvd is in great condition
Published 15 months ago by natashax
Hatchet job censor
Do not buy this BD from UK!
Every other country has teh full cut movie, except this one where the switchblade scenes have been removed. Read more
Every other country has teh full cut movie, except this one where the switchblade scenes have been removed. Read more
Published 19 months ago by troyus
It's Face/off. What else is there to say?
If you're buying this for the first time and have never seen it before then where have you been?!
Superb over the top action packed awesomeness. Read more
Superb over the top action packed awesomeness. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Peter E. Satera
Face Off DVD
Unfortunately i was rather disappointed with this purchase
The movie kept sticking and jumping and to be quite honest spoilt the viewing
The movie kept sticking and jumping and to be quite honest spoilt the viewing
Published 20 months ago by Angelah73
face off
Don't blink, cage and travolta at their best, great chemistry, will have your pulse racing in this action classic
Published 21 months ago by P. D. French
fantastic
this is a masterpiece well the bluray doens 't have dts sound as in usa but the picture of the bluray is so good and the 5. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by Marc Bouhana
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