Show and Cage Off Face in Thriller By Eric Bresee Shorts darts For those of you who are looking looking looking look look- ing for a tech high-tech thriller this summer summer summer sum sum- mer check out Face Off Face brings together two of Hollywoods Hollywood's hottest ties John plays Sean Archer an FBI agent tracking down one of the worlds world's most dangerous terrorists Caster Troy Nicholas Cage The movie begins with a flashback flashback flashback flash flash- back scene in which Caster Troy shoots Sean Archers Archer's year old son The bullet pierces Archer and kills his son Off Face then jumps to the present where Archer is tracking down Troy Troy with some help from his disturbed brother Pollux Troy Alessandro has planted plant plant- ed a mega-bomb mega in the Los Angeles area Archers Archer's tracking leads him Troy and his brother to a spectacular lar airport showdown that leaves Troy in a coma and his brother in prison Shortly after the showdown Archer learns of the bomb but not the whereabouts Archer brings in a myriad of Troys Troy's accomplices to find the location of the bomb He even tries Troys Troy's brother but he refuses to say anything until he sees his brother When all else fails a colleague tells Archer of a new procedure that surgically transplants ones one's face to If Archer chooses the procedure he can tell no one including his wife Eve Joan Allen After some thinking Archer decides to go ahead with the dure That leads to perhaps the most mind-boggling mind scene of the movie Doctors use lasers to cut Archers Archer's I 4 f i d y l f. f p 47 w t t J F c. W t j 1 I and Troys Troy's faces Then they use a vacuum-type vacuum device to lift the face from the body Archer then has to enter a maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum security prison in an attempt to learn the location of the bomb from Troys Troy's brother Miraculously Troy awakens from his coma to realize he has no face Troy sends his goons for the doctor who did the surgery and gets a new face Archers Archer's Director John Woo fills the rest of the movie with dynamic action scenes The film also includes a touching scene between the Archer still in Troys Troy's face and his wife that makes even the toughest man misty misty- eyed The movie called for and Cage to play each others characters characters characters char char- mimicking their personality and movements does an excellent job of it He is believable as Caster Troy and as Sean Archer Cage on the other hand is not as believable as Sean Archer There are a few scenes in which his goofy smile detracts from the scene itself Off Face is an packed action-packed movie If violence blood and carnage carnage carnage car car- nage are your thing this is a must- must see tz jj y y r- r t.- t. 11 74 v t vM i 1 f. f f wA i N f L LiL r rf fi f i 0 U fr dV t a ii iia 1 a a ff 4 y 3 si 0 w Li- Li LiA A c 1 Photos By Stephen Vaughan Top fop Terrorist Castor Troy assumes the Bottom Terrorist identity SL of rival FBI agent Sean Archer John Castor T Troy N Nicolas olas Cage and d FBI titles lilies and become their agent Sean Seau Archer John assume each other others other's s 1 den iden own worst enemies in Face Off I w 0 e S 3 |