What’s a “good-bad” movie? It’s the kind of flick that might have you cackling, hollering or groaning, one that is not necessarily great cinema but is great fun. It’s highly watchable even though — or maybe because — it’s memorably ridiculous. And it always has at least one element that pushes it into absurd territory.

While filming “Face/Off,” John Travolta had some trepidation about how things were shaping up. “I often wondered, ‘Was it working?’” he recalled in 2019. “I knew it was a very bold thing to try to pull off. Us being each other.”

“Very bold” is one way to describe John Woo’s 1997 thoroughly unhinged sci-fi action thrill ride.

“Face/Off” stars Travolta as Sean Archer, an F.B.I. agent who’s been wallowing in an emotional abyss after the murder of his son.

Behind the trigger was Castor Troy, a deranged psychopath who couldn’t be played by anyone other than Nicolas Cage. He’s got two custom gold guns he keeps in small-of-the-back holsters. He breaks out in song and dance at inappropriate times. He does all the drugs at once.