:Face/Off

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer survives an assassination attempt by Castor Troy, a terrorist-for-hire, but the bullet kills his son Michael. Archer then engages in an extended vendetta against Troy. It culminates, six years later, in his team ambushing Troy, who is with his younger brother and accomplice, Pollux, on a remote desert airstrip. Troy goads Archer by saying he knows of a bomb that is located somewhere in Los Angeles and is set to explode in a few days. But before Archer can learn more, Troy is knocked unconscious and falls into a coma. Pollux, in custody, affirms that the bomb is real but refuses to reveal its location.

In secret, Archer reluctantly undergoes a highly experimental face transplant procedure by Dr. Malcolm Walsh to take on Castor Troy's face, voice, and appearance. Archer-as-Troy is taken to the same high-security prison where Pollux is being held in order to obtain information on the bomb's location. Troy unexpectedly awakens from his coma and discovers that his face is missing. He calls his gang, and they force Dr. Walsh to transplant Archer's face onto him. Meanwhile, Archer successfully learns the location of the bomb from Pollux before being informed shortly thereafter he has a visitor. Anticipating a reunion with his colleagues and a return to his normal life, Archer instead finds Troy wearing his face. Upon revealing he has murdered everyone else who knows about the face transplant, Troy gleefully informs Archer that he looks forward to running his FBI career into the ground and ravishing his wife. An enraged Archer proceeds to strangle him only for the guards to beat him down and take him back to his cell.

Pollux is freed when he willingly tells Troy-as-Archer of the bomb's location, and Troy subsequently disarms the bomb. Troy earns admiration from the FBI office and becomes close to Archer's wife Eve and daughter Jamie, whom Archer had been neglecting while seeking to avenge the death of his son. Back at the prison, Archer-as-Troy escapes after staging a riot and retreats to Troy's headquarters. There, he meets Sasha, the sister of Troy's primary drug kingpin Dietrich Hassler, and her son Adam, who reminds him of Michael. Archer discovers that Adam is Troy's son. Meanwhile, Troy learns of Archer's escape and hastily assembles a team to raid his headquarters.

The raid turns into a bloodbath and many FBI agents and several members of Troy's gang (including Dietrich and Pollux) are killed. However, Archer, Sasha, and Adam all manage to escape. In the aftermath of the raid, Archer's supervisor, Director Victor Lazarro, angrily lambasts Troy-as-Archer for the unnecessary bloodshed he caused. Troy, still furious over Pollux's death, murders Lazarro and is subsequently promoted to acting director in his place. Meanwhile, after taking Sasha and Adam to a safe location, Archer-as-Troy approaches Eve and convinces her to test Troy-as-Archer's blood to confirm his identity. After testing the blood and being convinced that the man wearing her husband's face is in fact an imposter, Eve tells Archer that Troy will be vulnerable at Lazarro's funeral.

At the ceremony, Troy has taken Eve hostage. Sasha arrives, and a gunfight ensues; Sasha manages to save Eve after taking a bullet. Archer promises a dying Sasha that he will take care of Adam and raise him away from criminal life before taking off after Troy. Subsequently, Troy briefly takes Jamie hostage, but she escapes by stabbing him with the butterfly knife that he lent her earlier for self-defense.

Following the confrontation at the church, Troy reaches the docks and commandeers a speedboat while Archer commandeers one of his own to continue the pursuit. The chase ends when Archer forces Troy to the shore in a collision. With their boats grounded, the two proceed to fight to the death. Upon gaining the upper hand in the struggle, Archer manages to corner Troy at gunpoint with a speargun but Troy stops him from shooting by grabbing the firing mechanism. While admitting defeat, Troy-as-Archer proceeds to cut off his face so that Archer-as-Troy will be doomed to wear Troy's face forever. Before he can finish, Archer kicks Troy in the groin, causing him to lose his grip on the gun and allowing Archer to finally kill him.

Backup agents arrive and address Archer by his name, having been convinced by Eve of Archer's true identity. After the face transplant surgery is reversed, Archer returns home, where he adopts Adam into his family, keeping his promise to Sasha.

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• John Travolta as Sean Archer/Castor Troy
• Nicolas Cage as Castor Troy/Sean Archer
• Joan Allen as 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 Prison Guard Walton
• CCH Pounder as Hollis Miller
• Robert Wisdom as Tito Biondi
• Margaret Cho as Wanda Chang
• Thomas Jane as Burke Hicks
• James Denton as Buzz
• Tommy Flanagan as Leo
• Matt Ross as Loomis
• Chris Bauer as Ivan Dubov

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Other cast members in the film include Danny Masterson as Karl, Myles Jeffrey as Michael Archer, David McCurley as Adam Hassler, Romy Walthall as Kimberly, Paul Hipp as Fitch, Kirk Baltz as Aldo, Lisa Boyle as Cindee, Lauren Sinclair as Agent Winters, Steve Hytner as Agent Howell, David Warshofsky as a bomb squad officer, and John Bloom as a prison electroshock technician.

Face/Off was written by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary in 1990 as a spec script. They were inspired to write it after a mutual friend injured themselves in a hang-gliding accident. The injury required the friend’s face to be removed and reconstructed before being re-added onto their body. Werb and Colleary were also inspired by the film White Heat to create a plot where the main character survived a prison riot. Face/Off initially had a futuristic setting.{{Cite web |date=1997 |title=Interviews: Produced Writer Mike Werb |url=http://www.writersupercenter.com/studionotes/interviews8.shtml |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=Writer Super Center}}{{Cite web |last=Housman |first=Andrew |date=2022-03-23 |title=Believe It Or Not, Face/Off Could Have Been Even Weirder |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/807945/believe-it-or-not-faceoff-could-have-been-even-weirder/ |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=SlashFilm |language=en-US}} Face/Off was optioned to Joel Silver and Warner Bros. in 1991. The option expired in 1994 and the project was purchased by Paramount Pictures. American director and producer Rob Cohen was originally set to direct the film but when the project was in a turnaround Cohen left to direct Dragonheart (1996).{{Cite web |date=June 27, 2017 |title=15 Peachy Facts About Face/Off |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65363/15-peachy-facts-about-faceoff |website=Mental Floss}}{{cite web |last=Jones |first=Ralph |date=June 27, 2022 |title=The oral history of 'Face/Off,' Nicolas Cage's inexplicable sci-fi masterpiece |url=https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/face-off-oral-history/ |website=Inverse}} John Woo became attached in 1996.Christopher Heard. Ten thousand bullets: the cinema of John Woo. Los Angeles: Lone Eagle Publ, 2000. {{ISBN|1-58065-021-X}} Various actor pairings were considered for the parts of Sean Archer and Castor Troy, such as Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford, and Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis.{{cite book|last=Phipps|first= Keith |author-link= |date= March 29, 2022 |title= Age of Cage:Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7yIQEAAAQBAJ |publisher= Henry Holt and Company|chapter=8: Action Cage |isbn=9781250773036|quote=As various filmmakers considered the film, pairings like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford, and Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis, came and went.}}

Johnny Depp wanted to play Sean Archer but passed on the role after reading the script.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Ralph |date=September 10, 2019 |title=A deep dive into 'Face/Off': The best, most absurd action film ever made |url=https://www.shortlist.com/news/a-deep-dive-into-face-off-the-most-absurd-and-best-action-film-ever-made/ |website=Shortlist}}{{cite book|last=Phipps|first= Keith |author-link= |date= March 29, 2022 |title= Age of Cage:Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7yIQEAAAQBAJ |publisher= Henry Holt and Company|chapter=8: Action Cage |isbn=9781250773036}} John Woo instead hired John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to play those characters.{{cite web |title=Face/Off Production Notes |work=Retro Ramble |date=January 15, 2017 |url=http://retroramble.blog/2017/01/15/face-off-1997-retro-ramble-review_and_podcast_episode/ |publisher=Retroramble |access-date=July 16, 2019 |archive-date=July 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716034014/http://retroramble.blog/2017/01/15/face-off-1997-retro-ramble-review_and_podcast_episode/ |url-status=live }} Michael Douglas served as an executive producer. Werb and Colleary have cited White Heat (1949) as an influence on the plot. In preparation, Woo watched Seconds (1966) directed by John Frankenheimer.{{Cite magazine |last=Liebenson |first=Donald |date=1997-07-18 |title=John Woo's video rentals |url=https://ew.com/article/1997/07/18/john-woos-video-rentals/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306232125/https://ew.com/article/1997/07/18/john-woos-video-rentals/ |archive-date=2021-03-06 |access-date=2025-03-28 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} With an $80 million production budget, Face/Off made heavy use of action set pieces including several violent shootouts and a boat chase filmed in the Los Angeles area. The boat scene at the end of the film was shot in San Pedro.{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=faceoff.htm|title=Face/Off|website=Box Office Mojo|access-date=2007-06-05|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116044456/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=faceoff.htm|url-status=live}} Calling the brothers Castor and Pollux is a reference to Greek mythology; Castor and Pollux are the twins transformed by the ancient Greek god Zeus into the constellation Gemini.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-plots-given-away-by-characters-names |title=5 Character Names That Give Away Movie Plots |date=May 31, 2014 |access-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730170731/http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-plots-given-away-by-characters-names/ |url-status=live }}

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The Face/Off soundtrack was released by Hollywood Records on July 1, 1997, the week following the film's release.{{cite web |url= http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1026465/a/face%2Foff.htm |title= Face/Off Soundtrack CD Album |website= CD Universe |access-date= 2014-03-11 |archive-date= March 12, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140312212139/http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1026465/a/face/off.htm |url-status= live }} This was the first film to be composed by John Powell and the score was produced by Hans Zimmer.

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Several pieces of music and songs were used in the film but not included in the soundtrack. These include:

• "Hallelujah" from oratorio Messiah – George Frideric Handel
• Pamina's Aria "Ach, ich fühl's" from "Die Zauberflöte" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• "Prelude in D-flat, Op. 28, No. 15" ("Raindrop") – Frédéric Chopin
• "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" – James Brown
• "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg) – Olivia Newton-John{{cite web |title=Olivia Newton-John - Over The Rainbow |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2qynHr7e6w |website=YouTube | date=September 2012 |access-date=5 March 2024}}
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• "Don't Lose Your Head" – INXS
• "Miserere mei, Deus (VV.1-4 & 17-20)" – Gregorio Allegri

Face/Off was released on Region 1 DVD on October 7, 1998. A 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD was released on September 11, 2007, and it was also released on the now-defunct HD DVD format on October 30, 2007, in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128557/article.html|title=New HD Disc Titles, New HD Disc Technology|work=PC World|author=Perenson, Melissa J.|date=2007-01-18|access-date=2007-06-05|archive-date=September 30, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184409/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128557/article.html|url-status=dead}}

The film was released on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2007, by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, and was released in the United States on May 20, 2008, by Paramount Home Entertainment.{{cite web |url=http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Paramount/Disc_Announcements/Breaking:_Paramount_Unveils_Blu-ray_Launch_Plans/1696 |title=Breaking: Paramount Unveils Blu-ray Launch Plans |website=High-Def Digest |date=2008-04-29 |access-date=2012-01-14 |archive-date=July 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717221924/http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Paramount/Disc_Announcements/Breaking:_Paramount_Unveils_Blu-ray_Launch_Plans/1696 |url-status=live }}

The film was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray by Kino Lorber in December 2023, featuring a new 4K scan of the film.{{Cite web |last=London |first=Rob |date=2023-10-04 |title=Nicolas Cage, John Travolta Thriller 'Face/Off' Gets 4K Blu-ray Full of Special Features |url=https://collider.com/face-off-4k-blu-ray-release-date/ |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=Collider |language=en}}

Face/Off was released in North America on June 27, 1997, and earned $23,387,530 on its opening weekend, ranking number one in the domestic box office ahead of Hercules.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bismarck-tribune-hercules-not-stro/122303269/ |title='Hercules' not strong enough to edge 'Face/Off' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512201131/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bismarck-tribune-hercules-not-stro/122303269/ |date=July 1, 1997 |access-date=May 12, 2023 |archive-date=May 12, 2023 |page=13 |publisher=The Bismarck Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-06-30-ca-8310-story.html|title='Face/Off' Has Early Edge on 'Hercules'|last=Brennan|first=Judy|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 30, 1997|access-date=August 18, 2015}} It went on to become the 11th highest domestic and 14th worldwide grossing film of 1997, earning a domestic total of $112,276,146 and $133,400,000 overseas for a total of worldwide gross of $245,676,146.

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The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes records that 93% of 95 critical reviews were positive, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "John Travolta and Nicolas Cage play cat-and-mouse (and literally play each other) against a beautifully stylized backdrop of typically elegant, over-the-top John Woo violence."{{rotten-tomatoes|faceoff|Face/Off|access-date=December 26, 2023}} On Metacritic, the film received a score of 82 out of 100 from 26 critics.{{Metacritic film|title=Face/Off|access-date=January 17, 2023}} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.{{cite web |url= https://cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= CinemaScore |access-date= December 27, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= December 20, 2018 |url-status= dead }}

The role reversal between Travolta and Cage was a subject of praise, as were the stylized, violent action sequences. Critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and remarked the basic plot concept was "utterly absurd", but Woo's inventive direction along with clever performances made the film entertaining: "Here, using big movie stars and asking them to play each other, Woo and his writers find a terrific counterpoint to the action scenes: All through the movie, you find yourself reinterpreting every scene as you realize the 'other' character is 'really' playing it."{{cite news |url= http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970627/REVIEWS/706270301/1023 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |authorlink=Roger Ebert |title= Face/Off (review) |work= Chicago Sun-Times |date= June 27, 1997 |access-date= June 5, 2007 |archive-date= September 30, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041100/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19970627%2FREVIEWS%2F706270301%2F1023 |url-status= live }} Rolling Stone{{'}}s Peter Travers said of the film, "You may not buy the premise or the windup, but with Travolta and Cage taking comic and psychic measures of their characters and their own careers, there is no resisting Face/Off. This you gotta see."{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/face-off-19970627 |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Face/Off (review) |first=Peter |last=Travers |authorlink=Peter Travers |date=June 27, 1997 |access-date=March 1, 2018|archive-date=March 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180302044752/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/face-off-19970627 |url-status=live }} Richard Corliss of Time said that the film "isn't just a thrill ride, it's a rocket into the thrilling past, when directors could scare you with how much emotion they packed into a movie".{{cite magazine |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986612-3,00.html |magazine= Time |title= One Dumb Summer: Reviews |last= Corliss |first= Richard |authorlink=Richard Corliss |date= June 30, 1997 |access-date= November 20, 2008|archive-date= December 9, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081209080445/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,986612-3,00.html |url-status= dead }}

Barbara Shulgasser of the San Francisco Examiner called the movie "idiotic" and argued that "Woo is clearly an imaginative man, and there is no doubt that he can concoct six ways to do any given piece of business{{nbsp}}... a good director would choose the best of the six ways and put it in his movie. Woo puts all six in. If you keep your eyes closed during a Woo movie and open them every six minutes, you'll see everything you need to know to have a perfectly lovely evening at the cinema."{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1997/06/27/WEEKEND590.dtl|last=Shulgasser|first=Barbara|title=Trading Faces|work=San Francisco Examiner|date=June 27, 1997|access-date=June 5, 2007|archive-date=October 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013133743/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fe%2Fa%2F1997%2F06%2F27%2FWEEKEND590.dtl|url-status=live}}

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The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing (Mark Stoeckinger and Per Hallberg) at the 70th Academy Awards, but lost to another Paramount film Titanic.{{cite news |last=Garner |first=Chris |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/iowa-city-press-citizen-a-titanic-winn/109932077/ |title=A 'Titanic' winner |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506152141/https://www.newspapers.com/article/iowa-city-press-citizen-a-titanic-winn/109932077/ |date=March 24, 1998 |access-date=May 6, 2023 |archive-date=May 6, 2023 |page=17 |agency=Gannett News Service |newspaper=Iowa City Press-Citizen |via=Newspapers.com |url-status=live}} {{Open access}} Face/Off also won Saturn Awards for Best Director and Best Writing, and the MTV Movie Awards for Best Action Sequence (the speedboat chase) and Best On-Screen Duo for Travolta and Cage.

It has been labelled as part of the "holy trinity" of Nicolas Cage action films, along with Con Air (1997) and The Rock (1996).{{Cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/con-air-honest-trailer/ |title=Con Air Honest Trailer Celebrates Peak Nicolas Cage |website=Screen Rant |date=June 6, 2019 |access-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214202904/https://screenrant.com/con-air-honest-trailer/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2020/01/hollywood-theatre-series-celebrates-the-best-of-nicolas-cage |title=Hollywood Theatre Series Celebrates the Best of Nicolas Cage |access-date=February 8, 2021 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813052928/https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2020/01/hollywood-theatre-series-celebrates-the-best-of-nicolas-cage |url-status=live }} In 2022, Cage said the film had "aged beautifully".{{cite web|title=Nicolas Cage Says He Rewatched 'Face/Off' to Prepare for New Role: 'That Movie's Aged Beautifully'|first=Benjamin|last=VanHoose|website=People|date=March 18, 2022|url=https://people.com/movies/nicolas-cage-rewatched-faceoff-to-prepare-for-new-role/}}

Face/Off is said to have inspired Infernal Affairs. However, Infernal Affairs director Andrew Lau wanted to have a more realistic situation; instead of a physical face change, Lau wanted to have the characters swap identities.{{Cite web|url=http://www.1905.com/mdb/film/54626/feature/|title=无间道的幕后花絮|website=www.1905.com|language=zh-cmn-Hans|access-date=2018-03-21|archive-date=October 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181020091439/http://www.1905.com/mdb/film/54626/feature|url-status=live}} The concept of "bian lian" or "change face", a technique traditionally used in Chinese opera, may have been used here to depict the fluid and seamless morph of Chen and Lau's characters' identities between the "good" and "bad" sides. Infernal Affairs in turn has spawned several adaptations, notably The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Paramount Pictures announced in September 2019 plans to remake Face/Off with a new cast. David Permut would be executive producer, with Neal Moritz to produce and Oren Uziel to write.{{cite web | url = https://deadline.com/2019/09/face-off-remake-paramount-pictures-john-woo-john-travolta-nicolas-cage-1202729685/ | title = Paramount Putting A New Face On Action Hit 'Face/Off' | first = Mike Jr. | last = Fleming | date = September 9, 2019 | access-date = September 9, 2019 | work = Deadline Hollywood | archive-date = September 9, 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190909232708/https://deadline.com/2019/09/face-off-remake-paramount-pictures-john-woo-john-travolta-nicolas-cage-1202729685/ | url-status = live }} In February 2021, it was reported that Adam Wingard would direct and the film would be a sequel to the first film.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/02/face-off-remake-adam-wingard-youre-next-godzilla-vs-kong-paramount-1234690371/|title='Face/Off' Facelift To Be Delivered By 'Godzilla Vs Kong' Director Adam Wingard at Paramount|date=February 11, 2021|first=Mike Jr.|last=Fleming|website=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=February 11, 2021|archive-date=February 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212023243/https://deadline.com/2021/02/face-off-remake-adam-wingard-youre-next-godzilla-vs-kong-paramount-1234690371/|url-status=live}}

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