John Woo Film Director

John Woo Movies

Paycheck (2003)

Cast: Ben Affleck , Aaron Eckhart , Uma Thurman Waking up with his short-term memory erased, engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) learns that he has been doing highly secretive work for the last three years in exchange for billions of dollars. But when he tries to get paid, he finds out that he himself had previously exchanged the money for an envelope of random clues to his life. Chased by an FBI agent (Michael C. Hall) and his old boss Rethrick (Aaron Eckhart), Michael uses the clues to find out his identity and prove his innocence.

Windtalkers (2002)

Cast: Nicolas Cage , Christian Slater , Adam Beach , Noah Emmerich , Peter Stormare , Mark Ruffalo , Brian Van Holt , Frances O'Connor In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Marines Jo Enders (Nicolas Cage) and Ox Anderson (Christian Slater) are assigned to protect Navajo American codetalkers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beech) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). Trained to use a secret military code based on the Navajo language, the Marines' mission is "To protect the code at all costs" but as the bonds of war are forged, how far will they go to stop the code falling into the enemy's hands?

Mission: Impossible II. (2000)

Cast: Tom Cruise , Dougray Scott , Thandie Newton , Richard Roxburgh , Ving Rhames , Brendan Gleeson , John Polson The world’s greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they’ll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.

Blackjack (1998)

Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon, Kam Heskin Made especially for the USA Network, this action adventure centers on freelance bodyguard and former U.S. Marshal Jack Devlin (Dolph Lundgren and his attempts to protect a young woman from vicious gangsters. Unfortunately, Devlin's ability to do his job is severely restricted after an explosion temporarily blinds him. Suddenly faced with new situations and new fears, Devlin finds his courage tested to its limits as he struggles to protect another innocent mob victim

Face / Off (1997)

Cast: John Travolta , Nicolas Cage , Joan Allen , Gina Gershon , Alessandro Nivola FBI agent Sean Archer undergoes surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatosed terrorist Castor Troy in order to enable Sean to avenge the senseless murder of his son. When Castor awakes he assumes Sean's identity plunging Sean into a nightmare situation where he ends up fighting for his life and that of his wife and daughter...

Broken Arrow (1996)

Cast: John Travolta , Christian Slater , Samantha Mathis , Delroy Lindo , Frank Whaley  John Travolta plays Vic Deakins, an Air Force pilot on what is supposed to be a routine night flight mission with his co-pilot, the younger Riley Hale (Christian Slater), whom Deakins constantly kids for lacking the "will to win." Deakins is actually a traitor who crashlands their Stealth Bomber in Death Valley so that he can steal two nuclear warheads onboard and sell them to terrorists who plan to blackmail the government. Deakins meets up with his cohorts, who have been waiting in the park, while Hale survives and teams up with a young, attractive park ranger (Samantha Mathis) to foil Deakins's plans.

Once a Thief (1996)

Cast: Sandrine Holt ,  Ivan Sergei , This two-hour pilot for the Canadian TV series is inspired by John Woo's 1991 Hong Kong film of the same title, but the story has been altered extensively. Mac (Ivan Sergei) and Li Ann (Sandrine Holt) are the foster children of a powerful crime boss.

Hard Target (1993)

Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme , Lance Henriksen , Wilford Brimley , Yancy Butler John Woo's first Hollywood feature stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, a down-and-out Cajun merchant seaman, who, after saving a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs on the streets of New Orleans, agrees to help her search for her father (Chuck Pfarrer), a homeless Vietnam vet. They locate local businessman Randall Poe (Elliott Keener), for whom the vet had been working, and learn that her father has become a victim of wealthy sportsman Emil Fouchon (Lance Henriksen), who, along with his cronies, hunts homeless men as a form of recreation...