Face/Off (1997)

John Woo has been making the same movie for years. One man against army-sized odds, massive bodycounts, twin handguns, candles, doves, tense three- (maybe four- or even five-) way stand-offs and scene-enhancing slow-mo. Yet nobody appears to have noticed. Techno face-swap thriller Face/Off is very much a case in point. There's a dramatic shootout in a dove-filled, candle-littered church (see The Killer), and a re-run of that impossible gun battle where hero and nemesis reload on opposite sides of a wall, rattle off some quips, then blast their weapons at each other from point blank range through a shattering window. Uncannily, it's just like scenes in A Better Tomorrow 2, Hard Boiled and Hard Target.

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