Published Jun 7, 2026, 4:00 AM EDT
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Have you ever wondered what happens when a movie throws subtlety out the window? Well, this insane ’90s action-fest is your answer. This is not a “cop chases bad guy” situation; this sees the cop and bad guy take each other’s identities, hamming it up to high heaven while doves, bullets, speedboats and blood all fly past the camera in slow motion.
Face/Off is streaming for free on Pluto this month, so you absolutely must stop what you’re doing and designate two hours to watch John Woo’s cataclysm of majestic and balletic nonsense. The film stars John Travolta as Nicolas Cage, and Nicolas Cage as John Travolta. That’s what the movie is. Genuinely. It’s that good, and it’s that utterly deranged.
But the thing is, this would not work unless everybody truly committed 100% to the bit. These are exaggerated good guys and bad guys, and there’s utterly nothing subtle about it, because if the film tried to play it straight, it would never work. It’s like if professional wrestling decided it wanted to become a blockbuster movie, and it’s all the better for it.
Alongside the A-list double-bill of Cage and Travolta, Face/Off also stars Joan Allen (Room) as Eve Archer, Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) as Pollux Troy, Gina Gershon (Bound) as Sasha Hassler, Dominique Swain (Lolita) as Jamie Archer, and Nick Cassavetes (The Wraith) as Dietrich Hassler.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Financially,** Face/Off was absolutely a hit,** and honestly a pretty big one for how completely deranged the premise is. It opened at No. 1 domestically with $23.4 million, beating Disney’s Hercules, and went on to gross $112.3 million domestic and $245.7 million worldwide against a reported $80 million budget. And to the surprise of nobody, it was a critical smash too. How can it not be? It is one of the stupidest ideas ever committed to celluloid and ends up being two hours of utter genius. Rotten Tomatoes currently has it at 93%, while it also earned a strong 82 on Metacritic, and audiences gave it a B+ CinemaScore, which is a great score when you consider… they actually swap faces!
Face/Off is streaming for free on Pluto this month.
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