I have four important points to make about this movie:
1) The plot of Face Off is just about the most insane shit a team of film makers can come up with. To recap:
Someone approached John Travolta and said “listen, we want to catch bad guys, right? Well peep this: I’ve got access to a team of doctors that can do a totally reversible surgery in which we remove your face and sew Nic Cage’s face on in its place. Also, we will give your body a whole make over to look just like his. It’s no big deal at all, we’ll just reset you back to normal when we are done. Are you in?” and John Travolta was like “Yes! Let’s do this, sounds like a great idea!” Again, a TOTALLY REVERSIBLE FACE CHANGE SURGERY.
Let’s think about this for a second. It probably took several hundred people to make this movie. I found this article which breaks it down, there is an average of 588 crew members on the top 1000 Hollywood movies. At no point during the making of Face Off, did ANY of those 588 people speak up and say, “You know what, this is really really is not even remotely close to something that can ever happen in 1997, let alone in the next 20 years. Why exactly are we doing this?”
But of course, if every single insane “no way is that realistic” idea was vetoed we wouldn’t have things like Harry Potter to enjoy, so I get it. But still, Face Off?? Really??
2) Cage’s character has a haircut that looks a little big too much like The Real Slim Shady, amirite??
3) The many faces of Cage in this movie are so good that I was losing my mind with joy:
4) The final fight scene in Face Off was basically the classic family guy joke of Peter Griffin fighting the giant chicken. It just went on and on and on and now they’re on a boat and now they’re in a car etc etc etc. It was nuts!
Next up is City of Angels, which I have never even heard of until now!