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The Somewhere Over the Rainbow shootout

A rewatchable movie needs four or five parts you have to watch when flicking channels at the 30 or 50 minute mark, and this one has a lot: the airport shootout that leaves Nick Cage in NFL concussion protocol, the surgery face-switch scenes, the escape from a maximum security prison on Catalina Island where everybody wears magnetic boots, the Somewhere Over the Rainbow shootout with a little kid in headphones, the boat chase and the ending.

Chris Ryan: Asked for the most rewatchable scene, answers that it is absolutely the Somewhere Over the Rainbow shootout.

"There will be a lot of changes around here"

Lines put forward: 'I'm Castor Troy' (as transcribed Caster Trey) from the clip already shown; evil Travolta's 'it's like looking in the mirror, but not', a really good Travolta line; and his throwaway 'lies, mistrust, mixed messages, this is turning into a real marriage', offered as a senior high school yearbook quote.

The film

Face/Off (1997)

Directed by John Woo · Drama

139 minutes

Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

John Travolta Sean Archer / "Castor Troy"
Nicolas Cage Castor Troy / "Sean Archer"
Joan Allen Eve Archer, Sean's wife
Dominique Swain Jamie Archer, Eve and Sean's daughter
Alessandro Nivola Pollux Troy, Castor's brother
Gina Gershon Sasha Hassler, Dietrich's younger sister
Nick Cassavetes Dietrich Hassler, Troy's primary drug kingpin
Harve Presnell Victor Lazarro
Colm Feore Dr. Malcolm Walsh
Robert Wisdom Tito Biondi
CCH Pounder Hollis Miller
Margaret Cho Wanda Chang
John Carroll Lynch Prison Guard Walton
Thomas Jane Burke Hicks
Matt Ross Loomis
Chris Bauer Ivan Dubov

Everything from the episode

In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.

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