Face/Off

Face/Off (1997) is John Woo's action thriller you can watch online on iFILM. An FBI agent and a comatose terrorist literally trade faces, and each ends up living the other man's life.

Sean Archer (John Travolta) has spent six years chasing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), the killer who shot his young son. Troy finally lands in a coma, but a bomb he planted is still ticking somewhere in the city, and only he knows the code. To pull the secret from Castor's brother, Archer agrees to a reckless procedure and has the terrorist's face grafted onto his own. Then Troy wakes up, puts on the agent's face, and walks off with his whole life: his wife Eve (Joan Allen), his daughter, his badge.

Woo turns the duel between two actors into his signature ballet of gunfire, full of doves, slow motion and two pistols at once. Travolta and Cage spend the whole movie impersonating each other, and that is the fun of it. The film earned an Oscar nomination for sound editing. Stream Face/Off (1997) online on iFILM.