Face\Off Page #4

Synopsis: Obsessed with bringing terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) to justice, FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) tracks down Troy, who has boarded a plane in Los Angeles. After the plane crashes and Troy is severely injured, possibly dead, Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy's. As Archer tries to use his disguise to elicit information about a bomb from Troy's brother, Troy awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery to give him Archer's face.
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 11 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
1997
138 min
1,697 Views


INT. HOLDING TANK -- NIGHT

Barnes signals Officer Morris, who is petting "Dinah," the

precinct's mascot CAT.

GEOFFREY:

Excuse me, Officer. May I

have a private word with you?

(Morris puts Dinah

down and approaches)

I just wanted to say ...

(drops English accent

and speaks in his

natural American idiom)

Thanks for being one dumb f***.

Barnes reaches through the bars, and SNAPS MORRIS'S NECK!

Morris sags lifeless as "Barnes" -- aka CASTOR TROY --

quickly and calmly grabs the unarmed cop's keys.

Transformed, this man is coordinated, aggressive, sexy.

INT. HOTEL -- NIGHT

Pollux and the twins hurry inside. The door cracks open

again as a hand hangs a DO NOT DISTURB card over the knob.

EXT. HOTEL ROOM -- SAME TIME

This room does indeed have a view -- of the precinct's SQUAD

ROOM -- through its steel-reinforced plexiglass windows.

The trio scan with INFRA-RED GOGGLES: HEAT SIGNATURES of

computers, coffee makers, the cat -- finally a bald COP.

LUNT:

Number 6 -- the cue-ball.

LARS sights through his laser-sighted RIFLE. A harmless

SPOT of light momentarily tags the cop's bald pate, then

vanishes. An LED on the rifle's scope clicks from 5 to 6.

LARS:

6 is tagged.

POLLUX:

Hurry ...

INT. PRECINCT -- NIGHT

CASTOR picks his way through the back rooms of the precinct

when a DOOR opens in front of him.

A COP emerges from the head, zipping up his pants. CASTOR

silences the cop with a quick punch to the throat and drags

him back into the head just before --

BRYCE and cops charge by -- toward the holding tank.

CASTOR slips out after they've passed. Keeps moving.

INT. HOTEL -- NIGHT

POLLUX aims, fires a SILENCED five-barrelled weapon --

EXT. PRECINCT WINDOWS -- NIGHT

Five CHARGES sink into the reinforced plexiglass.

INT. HOTEL -- NIGHT

POLLUX turns to the twins -- they nod. Ready.

INT. PRECINCT -- NIGHT

HOLDING ROOM:
BRYCE finds Morris dead, Castor gone. He

hits a button.

SQUAD ROOM:
Busy Cops look up as the ALARM suddenly

screams. Then -- BOOM! The plexiglass windows EXPLODE

inward, leaving an enormous gash open to the whipping rain.

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Mike Werb

Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. A Los Angeles native, Werb attended Stanford. He is a UCLA Film School graduate. more…

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