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Face/Off

1997 · directed by John Woo · 139 min
24,984 feet · Prominence
499th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw70

Lifetime worldwide gross $246m, re-releases included; about $505m in 2026 money.

Rank607 of 11,051In 199713 of 213

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise88

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics88 baseAwards5 signal → +0 lift

Oscars1 nominated Sound Editing
How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since. This film is near critically unanimous and barely registers on awards, so there is little headroom for awards to claim. The score is the critics' verdict, nearly untouched.

Legacy55

Judged directly: Beloved absurdist action, endlessly memed.

Verdict55 of 100IMDb7.3 from 425kWikipedia36k views a monthAge29 years

Scored beside it · 749 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 70 praise 88 legacy 55averages 71, placing it at24,984 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Nicolas Cage

In these careers — elevation for this film

Nicolas Cage20,452 ftJohn Travolta20,107 ftJoan Allen18,607 ftAlessandro Nivola18,243 ftThomas Jane17,656 ftJohn Carroll Lynch17,645 ft