Tuesday 17 January 2012

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benico Del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollack, Pete Postlethwaithe , Chaz Palminteri
Certificate: 18
Genre: Crime
Awards: Best supporting Actor Spacey, Best Screenplay Christopher McQuarrie



The Usual Suspects begins in what seems to be a random police lineup of five criminals being questioned about a truck heist. It then goes forward in time to when the cripple Roger Verbal (Spacey) is telling US customs agent, Dave Kujan (Palmininteri). The five suspects team up after release on a job. With Verbal is; ex-cop Dean Keaton (Byrne), Partners Michael Mcmanus (Baldwin) and Fred Fenster (Del Toro),  and short tempered Tod Hockney (Pollack). Together they meet the lawyer Kobayashi (Postlethwaithe) who tells them they owe a debt to the mysterious Kaisar Shoze...

This film is absolutely amazing. All the characters are believable, and the end... The finale of the film is one of the greatest scenes of movie history. It's so clever, and just brilliant.

******Genius

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