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Summary: Don't miss this film!
Review: These young, bright, and talented filmmakers, McQuarrie, Singer and cast, filmed a story that holds your attention for 122 minutes, keeps you guessing even after the end, and provokes the audience to reflect. There's also the superb cinematography of Sigel and crafty editing by Ottman.Isn't THIS the definition of "art"? The Usual Suspects deserved awards for Best Film.
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Summary: "Conving the world he didn't exist"
Review: A very clever film by Bryan Singer. When there is a crime, there are usual suspects. But this time, it isn't true. The suspect of the massacre in the harbor is "the devil." Every little details of Verbal Kint's (Kevin Spacey) testimony leads to the surprising end of the movie, like pieces of puzzle being put together, but unexpected puzzle. No one, including the viewrs, has the full picture until the very last minute of the movie. You will definately watch more than once. You will love it.
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Summary: Unplug the phone, lock the door, watch uninterrupted
Review: I saw it originally based on a recommendation from one of my students. This is one of the best films ever made. It starts and you think it's a "caper-film" with the team of criminals planning to pull of the big score, only to realize partway through that isn't it at all. It magically transforms into a character study so compelling you can't take your eyes off the screen. Definately a film you don't just rent once, buy it and sit down to watch it uninterrupted. If a great movie stays with you after you've left the theater, this is one of the best. A scene showing a flash-back to something that happened in Soze's past has haunted me for more than two years!
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Summary: The ending does not ruin the movie.
Review: A very cleaver film by Bryan Singer on five men who are put in front of a police lineup in a murder investigation. How they got this way is only half the fun of the movie, the ending (which I won't reveal) does not ruin the movie. In fact it's makes a kind of logical sense.
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Summary: If you don't get it you won't get it
Review: This is a movie made for intelligent people. It plays with our perceptions and establishes a mind duel with the audience: will you be able to decipher its plot? Can you guess who Kayser Souze is? Get ready for top notch performances by the whole cast, especially Kevin Spacey and fellow Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro.
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Summary: Horrible Digitization of a Great Motion Picture
Review: The fact of the matter is that Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie's USUAL SUSPECTS is one of the best films to come out of the studio system in the last ten years. However, all of their marvelous work is for naught when MGM releases this horrible example of MPEG recording technology. No attention was paid to the cleanliness of the image, thereby creating a picture that looks like I downloaded it off the internet. Newton Thomas Sigel's contrasty neo-noir cinematography is jumbled with ghosts of character's shirts, velour blinds and other mistakes of modern technology. While DVD normally would provide the average cinephile everything they could possibly want, this sad example of the future is annoying and ultimately makes one pine for seeing it projected in a ratty neighborhood theatre. Do yourself a favor - find a widescreen VHS version.
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Summary: Loved It!
Review: This is an incredible flick!! The suspense, the acting, and the directing make this a MUST OWN. Besides, Kevin Spacey is a total babe!!
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Summary: UNusual
Review: How can a movie with no DEFINITIVE answers and no real sense of closure be successful? This one IS. The whole idea of a movie is telling a story and then deciding if you felt it to be real or not. This entire movie is JUST THAT: an elaborate story that we, as the viewers, must decide upon. Is it real? Or is it all just a story? And if it is only a sotry, then what is real? A rag-tag collection of unglamorous actors (Baldwin, Pollack, Del Toro, Byrne, and Spacey) absolutely shine in this piece. Some have called the story and the writing convoluted. But these actors play with words and phrases and nuances like children play with building blocks. Story telling should always be this good.
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Summary: One of Kevin Spacey's Finest
Review: This is the movie that first brought the Great acting of Kevin Spacey to my Attention. This movie is a good "Thinker" movie that keeps you guessing. Kevin is great in this movie, and I have to say this is a must see.
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Summary: The Man With a Plan, Plans to Watch This
Review: When this film first came out great things were very quickly said about it. Sometimes you get a film which people say is great because it has a wonderful car chase or there is a nice big explosion or the main character gets to say some wonderful one-liners. This film was being praised because it had a good story. This caught my attention so I went to see it and have watched it many times since. Not because I didn't get it, quite the opposite in fact. I understood the film but I just loved the experience of watching a brilliant story unfold so mcuh that I wanted that experience again and again. Can there be anyone out there who hasn't heard about this excellent film? How can I convince you to rent this, to buy it or just to plain sit down and watct it? Simple - if you like to watch a good film that is far more than car chases, explosions and witty one-liners then this is it. From the intriguing opening scene as we watch a ship go up in flames, the film slowly unfolds a story of how weeks before five men were brought together for a police line-up. Not just any five men, but five criminals who should not have been brought together at all. Plotting revenge against the NYPD for this harrasment is only the beginning and slowly but surely we begin to hear about this underworld myth - Keyser Soze. A powerful underworld lord who may or may not exist. Could it because of him that these five men were brought together? If so, what does he want from them and will they be willing to help him achieve that goal? Watch it and find out, I just hope that the arms of your chair are strong enough because you will be gripping them! The DVD is generally quite good, there is minor digital noise at the start but it is not distracting. The film is not enhanced so you will either have to enlarge your screen or put up with it in 2.23:1. The only extra is a commentary track which gives a nice insight into the making of the film.
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