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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: In Face/Off, Woo sweeps us away again, into a world of wild action, heroism, villainy and double faces that turn deadly. Read more
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune: Face/Off is the best action movie of the summer. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's difficult to describe the jolt his films deliver when [Woo]'s on, and he is on with a vengeance here. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: It's sick, slick and sensational. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: For all its fiery explosions, Face/Off just kind of implodes. Read more
Keith Simanton, Seattle Times: Face/Off is a full-blooded, movie-going experience. It's 100 percent movie. Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: Here comes a mega-movie that actually delivers what mega-movies promise... Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [A] gorgeously shot, repetitively violent, occasionally repellent, sometimes silly and consistently trashy fantasy. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A dizzying, beautiful ride. Read more
Paul Tatara, CNN.com: I won't pretend that I completely enjoyed it, but it certainly has a few elements that I've never seen before. Action aficionados will undoubtedly slobber all over themselves. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Face/Off makes bad movies look worse and makes the making of good movies look like the most thrilling work in the world. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: John Woo's Face/Off puts the acting into action flick... Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: You see what thickets this plot constructs; it's as if Travolta adds the spin courtesy of Cage's personality, while Cage mellows in the direction of Travolta. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Florid, passionate, frequently hilarious and loaded with messy emotions that nobody in his or her right mind should even attempt to explain, it's operatic in its nutball intensity. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Read more
Tom Charity, Time Out: Woo's poetic-kinetic style has evolved, if not to the point of abstraction, then to delirium: he makes a virtue of incredulity. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Watching John Travolta and Nicolas Cage square off and literally exchange roles brings back the old-fashioned pleasure of astutely judged movie star pairings in a major way. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Face/Off, John Woo's third Hollywood movie, is the maddest, most enjoyable blockbuster of the summer. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Almost indefensibly violent, the film is one of those whirligigs of wit, barbaric energy, blood spatters and firepower that will be adored by the morally retarded among us -- like me -- and loathed by the morally superior. Read more