Face/Off

“Exciting and then some, Face/Off blends the director's supercharged images of balletic brutality and spiritual catharsis with an off-the-wall humor that allows John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to really let it rip.”

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone · 100

“It's the picture that proves action films don't have to be silly, that a few thrill sequences don't mean every other value has to be shot to pieces.”

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle · 100

“Sure there are niggles, the most obvious being the length, which could have been reduced by trimming the prison sequences, but in the end this may be his finest moment so far which, by default, puts it in as having a strong claim on the title "best action movie ever made". Really.”

Adam Smith, Empire · 100

“The result is a genre picture that transcends the genre, that gleefully embraces four qualities alien to the bulk of its noisy brethren: (1) thematic texture; (2) kinetic grace; (3) visuals that toy with the mind even while dazzling the eye; and (3) performers who are permitted to act like something other than human wicks for the pyrotechnical bombast.”

Rick Groen, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 100

“But it is the steady accretion of hundreds of small moments in this elegant, high-spirited, intensely satisfying production -- the director's third American movie, but the first to approach the dazzle of his Hong Kong stuff -- that, toted up, makes everything right about this des- perately welcome thriller.”

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly · 100