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Love me some Face/Off. The scene with Nic Cage in the prison yelling "Anybody gotta light?!?" is comic gold.

It was John Woo’s best American work (and what happened to him? Why doesn’t he make American movies anymore? Did Paycheck ruin him?)

I still like Hard Target better than any of Woo's other American movies. For whatever reason, his style just didn't translate all that well to US films. Maybe it's because by the time he started making US films, his trademarks started to get a bit old and feel a bit dated.

I still remember the feeling of awe of utter joy when I first saw Hard Target and The Killer.

BANG! BOOM! TRAVOLTA FLYING! BOOOOOM! TITS! BAAAAAAAM! SPLOOSH! FIRE! CAGE! "IN ONE WORLD...TWO MEN...BECOME EACH....OTHER!!!" BAAAAAAAAAAM!

Figgy, I'd see that movie.

figgy, Your dedication to this site even while on vacation is inspiring. So tell us again why you couldn't do EE from the beach?

I especially enjoy boning your wife!

Ohh, that was an exciting trailer!

I loved this movie. It's one of the few things I actually like Cage in. He and Travolta played each other really well. That's gotta be tough to pull off... not only are you playing a character, you're playing another actor playing that character. And it's thoroughly interesting to watch.

Polarizing movie. I loved it, my friends hated it. We debated it for hours (them the plausability (of a movie? Puuulease.) me the way it was sold in the movie).

I agree with most comments: Both actors we're in their wheelhouse. Actually, I think they both agreed to play their strengths: Bi-Polar overacting.

Thank god John Woo made it over the top to coincide with said acting!

Still love it. Bought it on LaserDisk. LaserDisk!!...and I still have it!

Okay, self-indulgent as this admittedly is, I can't resist this opportunity to copy-and-paste something I wrote about this film in my MySpace blog back in December in 2007.

"When you're sitting alone in your living room, clad only in slippers and underpants, absent-mindedly scratching your nether regions with one hand while alternately ferrying sips of cheap lager and handfuls of Wotsits into your ceaselessly-slackened jaw with the other, bathed in the faintly amniotic glow from a large-screen television showing Face/Off for the fiftieth time, it can occasionally be easy to forget just how absolutely batshit insane some movies are.

Let's take the aforementioned movie as our first example (I'm just going to go ahead and assume you've seen the movie at this point - if you haven't seen it, consider this a spoiler warning, but seriously, it's a John Woo movie - I'm not exactly giving away the ending of The Usual Suspects here). In an early scene, not long after a passenger jet plane has crashed into a warehouse and an impressively-orchestrated gun battle has claimed the lives of several unimportant extras (and, in bloody close-up, the ear of one barely-important-enough-to-get-a-name extra), John Travolta kicks Nicolas Cage directly in front of an ignited jet engine - which, against all reasonable expectation, does not instantly turn him into a charcoal briquette, but instead propels him two hundred feet down a wind tunnel to smash noisily against a grate - the impact of which does not instantly liquify his organs and powder his bones, but somehow leaves him unmarked but in a coma.

Later, when the whole face-swapping idea is being sold to Travolta, a scientist calmly mentions that the agent who got his ear blown off had to be built a whole new ear for transplant - then we see this happening, the new ear seemingly being weaved out of thin air by laser-beams. Amazingly, the following exchange does not take place;

John Travolta: "Wait, we can do this now?"
Scientist: "Yep. With lasers. And science."
John Travolta: "But - you're creating living, organic tissue out of thin air. You're creating matter where previously there was none. According to the laws of physics as we know them, that can't be done."
Scientist: "That might have been true before, but that's all changed now!"
John Travolta: "How? What's changed?"
Scientist: "...Science?"

Later still, during an action scene in the solitary electro-shock torture room of a top-secret maximum-security prison in an abandoned off-shore oil-rig in which prisoners' movements are dictated by remote-controlled magnetic moon-boots (I'm not making a word of this up, I swear), Nicolas Cage (who is now playing the character John Travolta was playing before, because their faces have been swapped... by science) throws a large jar of sulphuric acid at a couple of guards before shooting it in mid-air so acid sprays all over them. Fair enough... But why keep a large jar of sulphuric acid in the electro-shock torture suite anyway? It's never explained, but I think, in all probability, it's something to do with science. Also, if you have a gun in your hand, why go to the extra trouble of picking up the acid, lobbing the jar at the guards, then shooting the jar? You could probably have killed both guards with the gun in the same amount of time, genius - sure, it wouldn't have been as flashy, but efficiency can be just as impressive..."

Please bear in mind - I actually really like this film - I just thought it would be funny to go on a rant about how absolutely insane it was. Hard Target's still my favourite American John Woo movie. Hard Boiled is my absolute favourite.

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FUCK YES. So many good quotes:

"If you dress like Halloween, ghouls will try to get in your pants."

"It's like looking in a mirror. Only... not."

"Well, I've gotta go. I've got a government job to abuse, and a lonely wife to fuck."

"If I were to send you flowers where would I... no, let me rephrase that. If I were to let you suck my tongue, would you be grateful?"

I can't decide what I want more, the gold handguns or the gold dragon-tooth money clip with multiple benjamins in it.

I remember reading the novelization to this as a kid. (I was an advanced reader, and movie novelizations lead to my love of reading books before they turned into movies instead of the other way around.) My father and I snuck into this after Men In Black, and let me tell you for a middle school movie geek it was one of my fondest summer memories.

That's right kids, if you liked the movie you came to see (or need to balance out a shitty movie you paid for) go sneak into a movie! Perfect case in point, my father and I paid to see Timeline (loved the book) and snuck into The Last Samurai after to wash the taste out.