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movie review - Face-Off

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

I guess there must have been a contractual obligation at play here because I can't otherwise explain how John Woo got involved in this mess. The Good Guy and the Bag Guy in this thing have their faces exchanged so that the alleged Good Guy can infiltrate the world of the somewhat worse Bad Guy. The actions of both characters are completely unbelievable however, and it's less a story of good vs bad than it is what else can I be doing right now; are my taxes filed? There's so much wrong I barely know where to start. How's "the hero tends to run his hand down the face of the people he loves, like a very drunk alien attempting to impersonate a human." They don't address things like the fact that there's zero chance the exchanged faces would look right, or that the body tends to reject donor organs as hard as it can. They do address their mismatched blood type, but that's as far as they took the actual science.

Bonkers, and not pleasant. This is what you wind up watching when it's "one of those nights" at the video rental place.

Not recommended.