Part delirious action spectacle, part identity thriller, Face/Off represents John Woo at the height of his Hollywood powers. When brilliant but grief-stricken FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) undergoes an experimental procedure to assume the face and identity of terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), his mission to stop a devastating bomb plot takes an unimaginable turn. After Troy awakens and steals Archer’s face for himself, the two bitter enemies become trapped in each other’s lives, leading to an operatic battle of identity, family, and vengeance in one of the defining action films of the 1990s.

“You may not buy the premise… but with Travolta and Cage taking comic and psychic measures of their characters… there is no resisting Face/Off. This you gotta see.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“The intriguing elements of the movie involve the performances… Woo and his writers find a terrific counterpoint to the action scenes.” — Roger Ebert

“Woo, a master of poetical carnage, mixes kitsch, sadism, sentiment and comedy with choreographic precision.” — David Ansen, Newsweek