Face/Off immediately dials in on the operatic lunacy of its two leading men.

| Dec 17, 2023

Redeemed by Woo’s bravura skills, Face/Off becomes more than just a genre exercise.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2022

Woo, a master of poetical carnage, mixes kitsch, sadism, sentiment and comedy with choreographic precision.

| Feb 28, 2018

I won't pretend that I completely enjoyed it, but it certainly has a few elements that I've never seen before. Action aficionados will undoubtedly slobber all over themselves.

| Jul 28, 2015

[A] gorgeously shot, repetitively violent, occasionally repellent, sometimes silly and consistently trashy fantasy.

| Aug 2, 2013

For all its fiery explosions, Face/Off just kind of implodes.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2013

It's sick, slick and sensational.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 2, 2013

In Face/Off, Woo sweeps us away again, into a world of wild action, heroism, villainy and double faces that turn deadly.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 2, 2013

A knockout new thriller by John Woo.

| Aug 2, 2013

Face/Off is a full-blooded, movie-going experience. It's 100 percent movie.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 2, 2013

Face/Off is the best action movie of the summer.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 2, 2013

Almost indefensibly violent, the film is one of those whirligigs of wit, barbaric energy, blood spatters and firepower that will be adored by the morally retarded among us -- like me -- and loathed by the morally superior.

| Aug 2, 2013

Face/Off makes bad movies look worse and makes the making of good movies look like the most thrilling work in the world.

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

Woo's poetic-kinetic style has evolved, if not to the point of abstraction, then to delirium: he makes a virtue of incredulity.

| Jan 26, 2006

John Woo's Face/Off puts the acting into action flick...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Scenes of high-voltage action vie with wild hilarity as two guys with guns switch faces and identities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 11, 2001

the film succeeds in overcoming its implausibilities because director Woo offers such a tantalising package.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Watching John Travolta and Nicolas Cage square off and literally exchange roles brings back the old-fashioned pleasure of astutely judged movie star pairings in a major way.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2001

It's difficult to describe the jolt his films deliver when [Woo]'s on, and he is on with a vengeance here.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 14, 2001

This is grand moviemaking with grand acting.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 1, 2000