Writer/director James Mangold obviously didn’t want to take any chances, so not only is Stallone’s Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a small New Jersey town populated by crooked New York cops, a badge-wearing slug, but he’s also deaf in one ear.
The best thing about the movie is John Leguizamo as the Clown/Violator. As he carts around 20-30 lbs. of foam-rubber costume, crouched over to look about five feet tall and wide, and making it look natural, he gets to spew the best one-liners of the movie.
Face/Off is an exceptional film, and hopefully, John Woo will return with another great cast and script, and continue to raise the standard of action films.
Zany Clark Griswold drags his lovely wife and two kids (played by, um, some new kids), off to Vegas for another two fun-filled hours of Ghastly Griswold Tales.
It opens with a voodoo ritual in Puritan Salem where there’s a flash of nubile breasts and buttocks, and Winona Ryder killing a chicken and drinking its blood.