Character mistake: When Troy is getting the bomb ready, the screen shows it will blow in 216 hours, which is 9 days. Yet the agent tells Archer it will blow in 6 days.

Face/Off (1997)
1 character mistake
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon

Visible crew/equipment: When Sean (as Castor Troy) is doing the 'water skiing' thing, trying to hang on to the speedboat's chain, in the close-up the harness he wears is visible under his wet white shirt. (02:06:50)
Castor Troy: You'll be seeing a lot of changes around here. Papa's got a brand new bag.
Trivia: John Woo fought to keep the slash in the title, so moviegoers wouldn't think it was a film about hockey.
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Chosen answer: Surgical scar removal is a real thing, usually involving skin grafts or lasers. Keloid scarring is a result of the body aggressively attempting to heal/repair itself after trauma or injury (in this case, the gunshot). With proper surgical techniques, the body isn't traumatized to the point that deep scarring occurs. Of course, just like with the face surgery, the movie exaggerates the results of the scar removal.
Bishop73
I thought he kept it.
He says he wanted to keep it at the beginning of the movie, but when he is about to have his face changed back at the end of the movie, he says he doesn't need it anymore.
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