The Usual Suspects (DVD)
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The Usual Suspects (DVD)

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The Usual Suspects (DVD)

Date: 27/12/08, updated on 27/12/08 (54 review reads)

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Advantages: Intiguing film that keeps you guessing throughout

Disadvantages: Too complicated for a simple person like me

This is another of my favourite films of all time. If I'm honest, i've seen it twice and still not sure if I trully believe who Keyser Soze is.

Anyway about the film. Following a truck hijack in New York, five well known criminals are arrested and brought in for questioning. None of them is guilty, and so they get together and plan a revenge operation against the police.

The operation goes well until Keyser Soze, a legendary Hungarian master criminal arrives on the scene, and things start to go wrong for the gang. It appears that none of them actually know who Keyser Soze is but it transpires that each one of them has wronged him at some point, and pay back time has now arrived. Throughout the film, you are left to wonder, as they do, who Keyser Soze actually is.

This epic film makes you guess all the way right up till the last scene, and then you realize you've been mislead from the beginning of the movie.

If you haven't seen this film, where have you been? I can highly recommend that you find the time over the Xmas/New Year break, (and you need lots of time), and see it. The film is full of plots, twists and turns and keeps your mind alert throughout.

The cast of characters is intriguing and all the actors (Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Bryan Singer, Stephen Baldwin, Benecio Del Toro) perform their roles to perfection. No wonder Kevin Spacey won Best Supporting Actor after his masterful performance as a club-footed con man.

Summary: Action packed, captivating film with a great cast.