This just struck me today. Every airplane I have been on has been pressurized before the flight commences. Keeping this in mind, Castor Troy briefly holds captive an undercover female FBI agent, dangles her before Sean Archer like a worm on a hook, and ultimately shoots her in the heart, while simultaneously releasing her so that she may plummet to the ground. Perhaps the effect of being pushed out of an airborne craft only occurs at high altitudes, but if it occurs even at low-level altitudes, then Castor Troy and the undercover female FBI agent both ought to have been pushed out of the airplane by the physics of higher pressure to lower pressure.

I may be wrong by I think that the caban's pressure is similer (if not quite the same as) the pressure on the ground. Meaning that any vacume created would not be enough to blow them out of the hatch when it is opened on the ground.

Would'nt the faceless, comatose Troy have been under armed guard in the hospital? He's meant to be one of the world's most dangerous criminals and he just gets out of bed and then goes to a phone to ring his cronies to pick up the plastic surgeon.

Fantastic film all the same.

This movie is ok, Travolta and Cage are awesome, but this movie should be in the Sci-Fi section instead because that whole trading faces procedure is just ridiculuous. For one thing the two main actors have very different bone structures, but also this isn't like skin grafting where doctors are trying to assist in the healing process. There are thousands of mucles and whatnot to detach and reconnect, plus they were different blood types. If this movie were more realistic it would've been better.

It was first supposed to take place in the future but John Woo chose to make it take place in the 90s to avoid the complications of creating a world of the future.