Face/Off, John Woo‘s 1997 high-concept, high-octane motion basic, is coming to 4K Blu-ray from Kino Lorber. The newly-remastered John Travolta/Nicolas Cage actioner will probably be launched on disc December 12. The 2-disc set will function an all-new HDR/Dolby Imaginative and prescient grasp from a 4K scan of the 35mm authentic digicam unfavorable, giving viewers their clearest view but of the movie’s outrageous motion and Travolta/Cage histrionics.
The discharge will embrace three commentary tracks; one with screenwriters Mike Werb (The Masks) and Michael Collery (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), one with Werb, Collery, and director Woo; and an all-new commentary from motion film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema. It’ll additionally function seven deleted scenes with commentary from Werb, Collery, and Woo; a making-of documentary; a half-hour featurette on Woo’s movie profession; and the movie’s authentic theatrical trailer. It’ll retail for $40, and may be pre-ordered from KinoLorber.com.
In Face/Off, Cage performs mad-dog terrorist-for-hire Castor Troy, whereas Travolta portrays his nemesis, authorities agent Sean Archer…at the very least at first of the film. When Troy leads to a coma, leaving the feds with no clue as to when his subsequent terror assault will happen, Archer undergoes a high-tech surgical procedure that offers him Troy’s face, letting him infiltrate his gang. Issues go haywire when Troy wakes up from his coma and takes Archer’s face for himself; thus, the 2 leads spend a lot of the movie’s runtime impersonating one another. A substantial amount of John Woo mayhem ensues, as Archer has to flee from a futuristic super-prison, whereas Troy ingratiates himself with Archer’s dysfunctional household. Bullets (and doves) fly, heroic blood is shed, and identities blur over the course of its 133-minute run time; an all-star forged of ’90s characters actors is alongside for the experience, together with Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Nick Cassavetes, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Fargo‘s Harve Presnell, and even Margaret Cho.
Regardless of (or presumably due to) its outlandish plot and each lead actors going excessive and past, Face/Off was successful with each critics and audiences, making practically $250 million on an $80 million funds in the summertime of 1997. Collider’s Andrew Taylor deems it Woo’s finest American film, and calls it “enjoyable, fashionable, and silly in equal measure”. A sequel is at the moment in growth, with Adam Wingard hooked up to direct; Cage revealed in a Collider interview this 12 months that the proposed Face/Off 2 plot is like “three-dimensional chess”.
Kino Lorber’s 2-disc Face/Off set will probably be launched on December 12, and is now accessible for pre-order.