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Face/Off
1997 · Film · 139 min
Directed by John Woo
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
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> First of all, I was not “trialing” the Yelp API. I had been using it for a decade and had official permission from Yelp to create Restaurants.
This looks like a Face/Off situation to me.
(Spoiler alert for a 1997 action movie: in Face/Off a cop surgically exchanges faces with an imprisoned villain in order to go undercover in their organization, but the villain then murders everyone who knew about the swap and steals the cop's life.)
Somebody at Yelp in 2014 knew that you had been approved to build this app. That person almost certainly no longer worked at Yelp ten years later, so the institutional knowledge of that agreement had likely been lost.
Replacing all those hacks and pretenders in every movie ever [1] with the glory that is Nicolas Cage.
1. including "Face off"
FACE/OFF: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/
Face/Off
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/