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''Face/Off'' is the second American [[Heroic Bloodshed]] film by Hong Kong director [[John Woo]], starring [[John Travolta (Creator)]] and [[Nicolas Cage]] playing an FBI agent and terrorist, as [[Arch Enemy|arch enemies]] fighting it out to see who can use [[Guns Akimbo|the most guns at the same time]]. Oh, and then they switch places to save LA.
Sean Archer, an FBI agent, pursues his [[Arch Enemy]], terrorist Castor Troy. Archer wants revenge on Castor Troy because the terrorist killed his son with a bullet meant for him. Archer succeeds in capturing Troy, but learns that before Castor went into a coma, he had placed a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles.
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** The prison and its name play into the film's only major [[The Reveal]]: as Sean Archer (played by Cage) is escaping the prison, he opens a door to walk outside to what he believes is a roof, only to find that it's a {{spoiler|helicopter platform, and what lies down is not land, as Archer hopes, but sea. The prison really is "nowhere," it's on what used to be an oil rig.}}
* [[Arch Enemy]] - Castor to Archer.
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Castor Troy's box of goodies, two gold plated handguns, gold money clip with a wad of cash, numerous joints, bag of blue pills, prescription pills, and a box of chiclets.
* [[A
* [[Attempted Rape]] - Castor (as Archer) roughs up Archer's daughter's boyfriend when he tries to do this to her after parking his car in front of Archer's house.
* [[Ax Crazy]] - Troy acts like this basically the whole movie. His brother is definitely insane as well, but much calmer.
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* [[Groin Attack]] - Castor!Archer gives a couple in the prison scene before escaping.
** At the end, Archer (as Troy) has pinned Troy against a wall, and tries to fire a speargun into his gut. Troy catches the bolt and starts taunting Archer, who just snaps and cuts him off with a knee to the groin, causing Troy to lose his grip on the bolt and get impaled.
** Which combines with a glorious [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] when, after Archer knees Troy, he screams "DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!!!" as the harpoon runs him through.
** Castor gives one to Jamie's scummy boyfriend while beating the crap out of him.
* [[Gun Fu]] - This ''is'' a [[John Woo]] film, after all.
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* [[Heroic Bloodshed]] - The best-known and most-quoted example of this trope in western cinema.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Archer (as Troy) combines this with a monumental [[Oh Crap]] when Troy (as Archer) shows up at the prison, revealing that he's woken up out of his coma, stolen Archer's face and identity, killed the surgeon who did it and then ''torched all the evidence of the switch''.
* [[Hey
** [[Margaret Cho]] plays an FBI Agent.
** [[The Punisher|Tom Jane]] as Burke Hicks
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* [[Mexican Standoff]] - A very masterful one of these goes down in the church near the end of the movie. It ends in a [[Blast Out]].
* [[My Sister Is Off Limits]] - The source of Dubov's anger at Troy. Later inverted when Archer as Troy recruits Dubov to help him escape by telling him he didn't actually do it.
* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Averted with face replacements. {{spoiler|Even though the doctor who originally performed the procedure is dead, the FBI has some of their best doctors flown in to reverse it on Archer.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** Right when Cage as Archer comes [[Incredibly Lame Pun|face-to-face]] with Travolta as Troy for the first time, since Archer believed Troy would be a long-term coma after the face transplant operation.
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