Face/Off (1997)

I wish to god I saw this movie on the big screen, but I was eight years old when it came out. I never saw it till I graduated high school. FACE/OFF is an action dramatic thriller about a very tough, rugged FBI Agent named Sean Archer (John Travolta) who obsessively pursues a sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind named Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), who is also responsible for the death of his son. After he captures Troy and is presumed dead, Archer discovers that he has planted a bomb somewhere in the city of Los Angeles. So Archer goes undercover to find out where it's hidden as he undergoes a revolutionary medical transplant by 'borrowing' Troy's face. Suddenly, Troy awakens from his coma and wants revenge by using Archer's face and that's when everything hits the fan. This movie had a great cast of familar faces: Joan Allen (The Bourne Identity II & III), Alessandro Nivola (Jurassic Park III), Gina Gershon (Bound), Dominique Swain (Lolita), Nick Cassavettes (director of The Notebook), Colm Feore (The Chronicles of Riddick), Robert Wisdom (Freedom Writers), Stand Up comedian Margaret Cho, James Denton (TV's Desperate Housewives), CCH Pounder (Avatar), John Carroll Lynch (Zodiac), Danny Masterson (TV's That 70's Show), and Tommy Flanagan (Smokin' Aces). I'm surprised that actor Michael Douglas is one of the producers of this movie and it was originally written for Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone to play the lead characters. The only character that creped me out was Castor's paranoid schizophrenic brother Pollux, played by Nivola. What happens to his character is pretty intense. FACE/OFF is my only favorite John Woo movie that's got incredible action and stars two of Hollywood's amazing actors. It is one of those Action Movie classics that will have you on the edge of your seat and I really like that in movies.