Review of Face/Off (1997) by Zeus M — 31 Mar 2012

I've always wanted to see this film since a friend of mine recommended it to me. That was like ages ago. And now that i've seen it, it was totally satisfying. Sean Archer is an FBI agent tracking down his son's murderer for several years.

Castor Troy is a remorseless terrorist who's responsible for the untimely death of Sean's boy. After an explosive sequence of cops and bad guys gunning each other down, Sean finally had his hands on Castor.

Now they have Castor in coma and they still need to find the bomb which the terrorist left. But first they need Castor to do the job. Since he is in coma, Sean made the decision to borrow Castor's face for the special ops to abort disaster.

But the plan goes beyond the line when the hibernating terrorist wakes up and takes Sean's identity. Filled with violence through gun slinging agents and bad guys and superbly done action sequences, molded with emotional elements to make us feel closer to characters portrayed beautifully by Cage and Travolta.

These guys fitted nicely to act as the agents of good and evil, a showdown that is to be concluded with pure action. So nice this film is, I actually think that Cage's hair is the worst thing this film might have offer us.