Face/Off

Face\off is the REAL masterpiece by John Woo (at least among his movies directed in the USA). It's spectacular, touching, tough and strongly directed.

Here there are a bunch of references to all his precedent movies, in particular to "The Killer" and "Hard Boiled" , with all their poetic in those long shoot-out which look like classical ballets, in that hyperbolic violence which actually is self ironic, in that kung-fu fights derived by Hong Kong film industry.

Eventually John Travolta and overall Nicholas Cage perfectly play the "literary" theme of doubles. 9\10 without second thoughts.