The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)

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Summary: Five big friggin' stars me son!
Review: Yes b'y, dat's right, 5 friggin stars. Dis movie is hawsome. D'actin is friggin great even doh one of dem dere Baldwins is in it. Da story is memorasizin, or sumtin like dat, and da endin...well da endin spun me right round and I landin on me arse. Dint mind doh, cause da movie's so friggin good! Radder watch dis movie den fish; dats how good tis. Tro dis one in your basket

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Summary: And I've Seen Another Great Kevin Spacey Movie...
Review: "the usual suspects" is one of those films that has an odd mix of comedy, suspense, maybe a little drama, action, and a splash of any other genre these guys knew about. the basic plot is that 5 men--including a crippled man nicknamed "verbal" played by kevin spacey who is telling us the story--are involved in a huge drug/mob scandal type thingy. the 5 men had been taken into authority for questioning, released, and then killed (all except verbal, which is telling the story). verbal had escaped the wrathful slaughtering of "kyser soze" (or however the f-ck you spell his name). soze is thought by some to be only a legend of a mob man, but other evidence--including verbal's story--points toward the existence of this unmerciful character. the cops just want to know what the big mob war was about, who they should be looking for, and the grandest question of them all: who is kyser soze? this movie, from beginning to near the end, is quite confusing and almost pointless. but somehow its not your average no-plot borefest. it actually keeps your attention. don't know how, don't know why, but it does. in the end, we get to find out who kyser soze is and are left with quite a surprise. if you just sit through this film until the end credits, you'll see that its well worth its spot in cinema history. this is another movie that is proven best at its ending.

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Summary: Excellent plot!
Review: Strong language - and lots of it.
Other than that, an excellent film.
You don't have to like Mob movies to enjoy this film.
The plot/director/writers lead you around from surprise to surprise without your knowledge and even against your will.
After the first few twists, I decided to really pay attention and STILL they got me!
Very enjoyable.


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Summary: ** KEVIN SPACEY IS THE MAN **
Review: Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for his work in this movie. Everything this man touches turns to gold, as far as I am concerned. This movie is definitely one of the new modern classics ... definitely within the top 50 movies of all times. Worth the price of admission 20 times over! Enjoy.

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Summary: One of the most important movies of the 20th century
Review: Wow was this film fanominal. Acting was perfect. Screenplay was amazing. And the plot- dazzling. The ending- mind-blowing. The perfect film. It's truely incredible.

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Summary: One of the all time greats
Review: Now and then, someone asks you what your favorite movie of all time is. The Usual Suspects is on my short list.

The first time I watched it, I was a bit confused by it. Then came that ending, that final shot. It was an "oh my god" moment. I am rarely surprised by "surprise endings". They are usually telegraphed early on. But this one completely had me.

It is one of those movies you enjoy more the second and third and fourth time around, always picking up things you missed before.

It has a great villain. That is very important to a story. There is no hero, which, come to think of it, is odd. But the villain is nearly of the magnitude of Tolkein's character Sauron. How about a Kaiser Soze action figure? No, that would ruin the ending, wouldn't it.

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Summary: A modern classic of film noir
Review: I happened to catch this film just by chance on a movie channel recently. I hadn't seen it again since it came out 10 years ago, but it was just as good the second time around. It's a dark mystery and thriller about what really amounts to the ultimate bogeyman--a criminal mastermind known as Kaiser Sose--a mysterious but quintessentially evil and nefarious criminal no one has ever seen but who seems to know everyone and everything that goes on in the criminal underworld. No matter how clever you are, he can outsmart you; no matter where you try to run or hide, he can find you (he seems to have spies everywhere), and no matter how bad or tough you are, he's badder and tougher. In short, he's like the seemingly invincible criminal masterminds one used to encounter in the old comic book stories, but reinvented in a more adult way in this very well done movie.

If you like convoluted and twisted plots, this movie won't disappoint you either, and just that part of the movie practically takes Kaiser Sose's brainpower to follow and unravel, at least for me. :-) The script is terrific, and the acting by the entire cast is also superb. The drama and suspense build up from the opening scene to the final climax, where at least one of the mysteries is resolved--you finally learn who Kaiser Sose really is. Although Sose's omnipotent presence is felt during the entire movie, he's never actually identified until the last scene, although he does appear on screen. I would have never guessed who it finally turned out to be, but see if you can figure it out yourself. :-) Overall, still a fine movie that has held up very well and that I suspect is destined to become a classic of the film noir and detective/crime genre.

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Summary: God, I love this movie
Review: The Usual Suspects is one of my "desert island" movies (if I were stranded on a desert island, I'd want this with me). Along with the Oscar-winning performance by Kevin Spacey, EVERY other performance is top-notch. The story is and old-fashioned crime mystery/thriller; a bit complex but incredibly taut, and crackles with great wit and fascinating intrigue. The soundtrack is superb, and propels the movie along without you realizing it (which really is the point of it, right?). It's one of the very few movies you'll ever see where as soon as it's over your immediate reaction will be "WOW! Now I need to see it all over again!" Watching it twice only enhances the enjoyment.

It's *that* good.