Face/Off is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by John Woo, starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. The two both play an FBI agent and a terrorist, sworn enemies who assume the physical appearance of one another. The film exemplifies gun fu and heroic bloodshed action sequences, and has Travolta and Cage each playing two personalities. It was the first Hollywood film in which Woo was given complete creative control and was acclaimed by both audiences and critics. Eventually grossing $245 million worldwide, Face/Off was a financial success. Most wanted civil freelance terrorist... Castor Troy is relentlessly pursued by FBI Special Agent in Charge Sean Archer . Years earlier, Castor, in an attempt to kill Sean, accidentally killed the agent's young son, Michael; the two have been obsessed with each other ever since. The FBI receives information that Castor's brother, Pollux , has chartered a plane at LAX airport. Sean knows that Pollux will not fly without Castor, so he leads a joint FBI/LAPD team to chase the plane down, which crashes into a hangar.
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| Release date: | June 27, 1997 |
| Directed by: | John Woo |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 138 Minutes |
| Producer: | Barrie M. Osborne, Terence Chang, Christopher Godsick, David Permut |
| Editor: | Steven Kemper, Christian Wagner |
| Music by: | John Powell |
| Cinematography: | Oliver Wood |
| Screenplay by: | Michael Colleary, Mike Werb |
| Estimated budget: | $80,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action, Science Fiction |