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DOUBLE TROUBLE: Cage faces off against his arch nemesis

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Release Date: Jun 27, 1997; Rated: R; Genre: Action/Adventure; With: Nicolas Cage and John Travolta
The small screen can’t contain the swooping camera work of action auteur John Woo. But even on video, Face/Off’s balletic gun battles look spectacular. So, too, do Travolta and Cage, who take turns gobbling scenery as an obsessed FBI agent and a manic master terrorist who literally trade faces to impersonate each other. Woo makes this preposterous premise soar with an audaciously inventive plot that never stops hurtling forward and 3-D characters that never stop surprising us. Going beyond inspired grandstanding, Travolta and Cage get to the heart of their outsize characters, investing them with a soulfulness that doesn’t need a wide screen (indeed, no wide-screen video is yet planned) to make a major impact.

Posted Nov 14, 1997
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