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Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).
Several critics say it "does not deliver on what could have been a promising premise" (Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times ), but Newsweek 's David Ansen finds it "funny, sentimental, cheerfully bawdy."
This big-budget remake is deemed a bastardization of director Fred Zinnemann's 1973 political thriller, The Day of the Jackal . "At best generic, at worst nonsensical," says Newsweek 's David Ansen.
After emphasizing just how gross this film version of the popular Comedy Central series is ("the potty-mouth on this R-rated cartoon is pretty mind-boggling"--Gary Dauphin, the Village Voice ), critics go on to praise it: "Hilarious, willfully filthy" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ); David Ansen ( Newsweek ) calls it "tasteless, irreverent, silly and smart."
This "slick, gaudily suave guilty pleasure of a movie" (David Ansen, Newsweek ) gets mainly good reviews.