Face Off 🎥 1997 Movie Info

Plot Summary

FBI Special Agent Sean Archer survives an assassination attempt by Castor Troy, a terrorist-for-hire, but the bullet kills his son Michael. Archer then engages in an extended vendetta against Troy. It culminates, six years later, in his team ambushing Troy, who is with his younger brother and accomplice, Pollux, on a remote desert airstrip. Castor goads Archer by saying he knows of a bomb that is located somewhere in Los Angeles and is set to explode in a few days. Before Archer can learn more, Castor is knocked unconscious and falls into a coma. Pollux, in custody, affirms that the bomb is real but refuses to reveal its location. In secret, Archer reluctantly undergoes a highly experimental face transplant procedure by Dr. Malcolm Walsh to take on Castor’s face, voice, and appearance.

Archer-as-Castor is taken to the same high-security prison where Pollux is being held in order to obtain information on the bomb’s location. Castor unexpectedly awakens from his coma and discovers that his face is missing. He calls his gang, and they force Dr. Walsh to transplant Archer’s face onto him. Meanwhile, Archer successfully learns the bomb’s location from Pollux before being informed that he has a visitor. Anticipating a reunion with his colleagues and a return to his normal life, Archer instead finds Castor wearing his face. Upon revealing he has murdered everyone else who knows about the face transplant, Castor gleefully informs Archer that he looks forward to ruining his FBI career and ravishing his wife.

Pollux is freed when he willingly tells Castor-as-Archer of the bomb’s location, and Castor subsequently disarms the bomb. Castor earns admiration from the FBI office and becomes close to Archer’s wife Eve and daughter Jamie, whom Archer had been neglecting while seeking to avenge the death of his son. Back at the prison, Archer-as-Castor escapes after staging a riot and retreats to Castor’s headquarters.

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