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Face/Off
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List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $9.99
Your Save: $ 2.99 ( 23% )
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon
Directed By: John Woo
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792152965
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 630512762X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 1998-10-07
Running Time: 140
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Editorial Reviews:
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At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Job
Comment: Face/off is one of my favourites and i was looking forward for Months to watch it in HD format. I must admit they did a fantastic job transferring this classic to HD ... if you like this movie, you will LOVE it in Blu-ray.
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Summary: Great Transfer
Comment: This was a excellent HD Transfer on the HD-DVD with plenty of features. Should be just as good (if not better) on Blu-Ray. The only downside is that the DTS track was in 6.1 ES, which isn't supported by any HD-DVD players and very few Blu-Ray players support this track (this matters if you are using PCM sound through HDMI). Most Blu-Ray players make the jump from DTS Core Audio to HD High Resolution and HD Master Audio with nothing in between. Don't be discouraged though, cause it still sounds great down-mixed to 5.1. Highly recommend switching from the DVD version to this HD version. The quality is great and a definite improvement over the DVD releases.
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Summary: Forget politics -- this is a great film to have!
Comment: While I don't think this is a five star movie (probably a solid three or four) something has to be done to balance out the idiots who are posting lower ratings for this excellent film solely based on their dislike of Paramount (who has finally come over to blu like everyone else).
So -- if you want this film, buy it on BD because it is available (it's actually already in stores but Amazon has a weird idea not to make it available until June 3). It's a very good film, terrific action, and the pic quality and sound should be excellent (read the reviews of it on regular DVD to get a better idea).
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Summary: ITS ALLREADY ON BLU RAY
Comment: I dont know why these people are crying but the movie is out on BLU RAY now. Paramount has swithed to Blu Ray and will start releasing films on BLU RAY. I Allready own it and its great
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Summary: Woo makes a great "Face Off"
Comment: I've not been too pleased with some of John Woo's American films as compared to the HK movies he did formerly but this one is a rare exception. Free of studio tampering, "Face Off" is a tour de force for the director and the two lead actors, Travolta & Cage. I've seen this on Standard def than I rented the HD DVD version and what a difference!! If you want someone to notice the advantages of Hi-Def over standard, play them this disc! The visuals have a depth of field unequalled to none (maybe Batman Begins perhaps) and the sonics are out of this world to boot! I am definitely buying a copy of this in HD DVD before they're gone. I recommend this to owners of HD DVD machines as well.
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