The outsized scale of Hollywood tended to stifle John Woo’s action chops, but he had excellent hole cards here in a loony premise and two of the English-speaking world’s preeminent scenery chewers in the lead roles. John Travolta’s obsessed FBI agent and Nicolas Cage’s bonkers master criminal switch faces! They play characters playing each other! There’s a bomb and some other folderol, but what else do you need?
1997 John Woo 2.35:1 Color DCP 138 min.
