Seeing Laurence Fishburne blast a possessed Sam Neil over the head with a plastic tube, and apparently doing significant damage in the process, is unintentionally comical.

Face/Off is a monumentally stupid movie. It followed another John Woo and John Travolta monumentally stupid movie, Broken Arrow. At least Broken Arrow stuck to the basics to set up its action. Face/Off is famous for the idiotic concept of face swapping, admittedly original yet completely absurd.
Travolta and Nicolas Cage face off (heh) without any [...]

Broken Arrow is simple to describe - it’s a grade-Z action movie with loads of money behind it and a director with an eye for extremes. John Woo followed up 1993’s Hard Target with this fiasco, a brain-dead actioner involving nuclear weapons, an evil John Travolta, and non-star Christian Slater in the hero role. It doesn’t [...]

Chow Yun-Fat’s first go at American cinema comes out feeling much like his Korean affairs. Director Antoine Fuqua also was given his first shot at a Hollywood production, and does a fine job for a film loaded with action, combined with a paper-thin story. Shoot-outs and slowly building tension feel familiar, but this only slightly [...]