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Actors: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Face/Off |
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The film is a classy film about a gangstar who tries to kill a cop but fails and kills his son. So the cop wants revenge but in order to get this the cop has to part with his wife for a while which doesn't turn out very well. But in the end him and his wife get together again and have even adopted a kid called Adam.
--Jack Morris, Resident Scholar
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John Woo directed this revolutionary action mvie. Choreographed shootouts, extravagant action scenes, drama, and John Woo's trademark "gun ballet" seperate this from other mindless action movies.
--Mike T. W., Resident Scholar
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John Woo directs this glossy mixture of extreme violence tinged with theatrical sentimentality like he did in his film ‘Bullet In the Head'. In Face Off, the plot revolves around an embittered FBI agent played by John Travolta who, after finally capturing the Troy brothers, Casper ( played by Nicholas Cage ) and Pollox, must use the surgically transplanted face from a comatose Casper to learn the whereabouts of a nerve-agent bomb from an unsuspecting Pollox. Things don't go as smoothly as expected, resulting in some clever juxtapositioning between the two main characters.
An interesting film in the way it marries a big Hollywood formula production to the direction of a highly respected Chinese viewpoint.
--Charles Smyth, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Face/Off |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
- terrorist kidnappers
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- special bomb
The terrorist enemy is...
- terrorist group
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- dangerous
Misc setting
- prison
- scientific labs
- building
- church/synagogue
Style
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- licking
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to destroy something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Lot of special effects?
Yes
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