Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy 77th birthday to director John Woo, the man who did the most to popularize the idea of the slo mo of doom!

Today’s scene that I love comes from Woo’s 1997 film, Face/Off.  In this scene, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta purse each other in speedboats.  The action is wonderfully over-the-top.  Throughout this film, Cage and Travolta both do what they do best in this scene and so does John Woo.