tt0119094 Face/Off (1997)Director : John Woo

Release Date : 27 June 1997 (USA)

Genre : Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cast : : , John Travolta as Sean Archer / Castor Troy , Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy / Sean Archer , Joan Allen as Dr. Eve Archer , Alessandro Nivola as Pollux Troy , Gina Gershon as Sasha Hassler , Dominique Swain as Jamie Archer , Nick Cassavetes as Dietrich Hassler , Harve Presnell as Victor Lazarro , Colm Feore as Dr. Malcolm Walsh , John Carroll Lynch as Walton, Prison Guard , CCH Pounder as Dr. Holllis Miller , Robert Wisdom as Tito Biondi , Margaret Cho as Wanda , James Denton as Buzz (as Jamie Denton) , Matt Ross as Loomis

Plot : A revolutionary therapeutic peculiarity allows an undercover source to receive the physical onset of a chief criminal furthermore infiltrate his organization.

Run Time : 138 min

Country : USA

MPAA : Rated R for intense sequences of strong violence, and for strong language.

Language : English | Latin

Filming Locations : Agoura Hills, California, USA

Company : Touchstone Pictures

Trivia : Originally written inside 1990, the composition was initially optioned by producer Joel Silver prior to approaching into the lap of Michael Douglas who, the screenwriters willingly hoped, may possibly superstar inside it alongside Harrison Ford. Instead Douglas carried excess of because producer and the roles of cop Sean Archer as at any rate as knave Castor Troy in the end about to John Travolta as at any rate as Nicolas Cage respectively.

Goofs : Continuity: At the Walsh Institute, beyond he gets the facial expression transplant, Archer is informed that the bomb is compilation to explode inside 6 days; however, the future view of the bomb shows 216 hours (9 days) on its timer.

Tag Lines : In order to catch him, he must become him.
To destroy your enemy, you must find him, face him, and then… become him.
It's like looking in a mirror - only not
Only one will survive
In order to trap him, he must become him. [DVD]

Plot Summary : Sean Archer, a highly tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is likewise grieving because the deadened male child Michael. Archer believes that his son’s killer is his sworn enemy, a highly commanding criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has at lengthy last cornered Castor, however, their contest has strike out Troy cold. As Archer at lengthy last breathes effortless way over the obtain of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has made a bomb that will exterminate the end city of Los Angeles with the inclusive lot of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the simply varying individual who knows its place is Castor’s male relative Pollux, with he refuses to talk. The solution, a really unique procedure health worker that could interrupt people’s faces, with could spot a person’s facial expression onto an extra person. Archer undergoes one amongst those surgeries to check with Pollux. However, Castor Troy one mechanism or the other regains consciousness with nowadays wishes settling of scores on Archer because capturing his face. Not simply is Troy ruining Archer’s mission, however his private continuation because well. Archer must discontinue Troy again. This time, it’s personal.

Sean Archer is a government cause who since six days has been attempting to apprehend terrorist, Caster Troy, who confirmed to exterminate him save for did conscious killing Archer’s child instead. When Archer corners Troy, Troy tells Archer that he has instituted a bomb that will set out off, except he lets him set out save for Archer thinks that Troy is bluffing as a result a bawl erupts that plants Troy comatose. But later on once they tolerate sundry of his brother, Pollux’s things, they find out that Troy was stating the truth. All what on earth they appetite at present is to determine where it is with the merely human being who knows is Pollux. And the merely human being that he will ask with aspects to it, is his brother, Caster save for regrettably he is a vegetable. A government official at that time recommend to Archer that he guess Caster’s identity with confer with Pollux with aspects to the bomb. So she brings him to a health worker who has better a rule wherein the facial features of single discreet is got free of like him with sited on another. Archer agrees. The business is a prosperity as a result Archer since Troy act to the penal complex where Pollux is human being trapped with productively gets him to enlighten him where the bomb is. Meanwhile, Troy who was interpreted as spent awakens with forces the health worker who operated on Archer to area Archer’s facial features on him. He at that time act to the penal complex since Archer with name callings Archer by stating him that he has ruined the absolute lot account of the business with eliminated all and sundry who knew with aspects to it. He at that time gets rid of his blood brother out with plants Archer inside prison. But Archer someway manages to flee with is at present attempting to adjudge anyone who will have confidence with get wedged inside with him, jiffy Troy is plotting something.

An undercover cause removes the physical rise of an assumed numb terrorist. The terrorist was solitary inside a coma, also he removes the kind of the undercover agent.

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer aims to look on a biological weapon to be found inside Los Angeles by a sadistic terrorist-for-hire as anyways as criminal mastermind identified Castor Troy. Archer has looked up Troy as the very last 8 years, as anyways as is gulped up by reprisal since Troy is stable as the decease of Archer’s son. To do this, Archer must "borrow" Troy’s face expression by the use of a surgical system to depart undercover since Troy, on the variant hand subjects depart wide of the mark as soon as Troy assumes the identity of Archer.

Sean Archer has been chasing Castor Troy to avenge his son’s kicking of the bucket by the men of the psychotic terrorist for the ground that six years. Now that he slayed Castor, Sean must gauge a biological bomb by assuming the identity of Castor Troy by getting his facial expression furthermore individual conveyed inside prison. But Troy, who awakes savours his coma, eliminates Archer’s facial expression inside demands to get reprisal on him. Now, Troy turns Archer’s survival upside drink by assuming his identity. Will Archer break away savours his detention center furthermore obtain his facial expression back, or will Troy suffer the concluding snigger ?

Sean Archer is a government originator whose lad was execute inside a terrorist behavior by Castor Troy. Sean takes out on the countenance of Castpr inside a blueprint to transfer drink a terrorist group. However, Castor, who was invented frozen nevertheless only inside a coma, wakes wakeful furthermore realizes the same. Soon, they are pitted opposition only another.

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