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The Usual Suspects (1995)
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The Usual Suspects overview

Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger "Verbal" Kint, says, "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." This may be the key line in this story; the farther along the movie goes, the more one realizes that not everything is quite what it seems, and what began as a conventional whodunit turns into something quite different. A massive explosion rips through a ship in a San Pedro, CA, harbor, leaving 27 men dead, the lone survivor horribly burned, and 91 million dollars' worth of cocaine, believed to be on board, mysteriously missing. Police detective Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) soon brings in the only witness and key suspect, "Verbal" Kint. Kint's nickname stems from his inability to keep his mouth shut, and he recounts the events that led to the disaster. Five days earlier, a truckload of gun parts was hijacked in Queens, NY, and five men were brought in as suspects: Kint, hot-headed hipster thief McManus (Stephen Baldwin), ill-tempered thug Hockney (Kevin Pollak), flashy wise guy Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), and Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), a cop gone bad now trying to go straight in the restaurant business. While in stir, someone suggests that they should pull a job together, and Kint hatches a plan for a simple and lucrative jewel heist. Despite Keaton's misgivings, the five men pull off the robbery without a hitch and fly to Los Angeles to fence the loot. Their customer asks if they'd be interested in pulling a quick job while out West; the men agree, but the robbery goes horribly wrong and they soon find themselves visited by Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite), who represents a criminal mastermind named Keyser Soze. Soze's violent reputation is so infamous that he's said to have responded to a threat to murder his family by killing them himself, just to prove that he feared no one. When Kobayashi passes along a heist proposed by Soze that sounds like suicide, the men feel that they have little choice but to agree. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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The Usual Suspects News & Reviews

"The Usual Suspects, the heavily hyped new film from Bryan Singer, is finally here, and with it comes the answer to the riddle posed in its high-powered ad campaign, "Who is Keyser Soze?" Keyser Soze is a semi-mythical crime kingpin who ultimately directs the actions of five small-time hoods. "
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"Compelling and entertaining...this bears repeat viewings even after you know the perfect twist."
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"Nothing is remotely usual about The Usual Suspects. "
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"Five career criminals in New York are rounded up for a standard police line-up. "
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"The Usual Suspects is an ironic, bang-up thriller about the wages of crime. A terrific cast of exciting actors socks over this absorbingly complicated yarn that's been spun in a seductively slick fashion by director Bryan Singer."
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The Usual Suspects comments

ntutak
"Great flick, great reveal."
by ntutak, 21:03 08 February 2010
diriger
" OMG. SOGOOD. OMG. OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG."
by diriger, 14 August 2006
sversus
" Hard to find anyone who didn't like this movie, and I'm not breaking that rule"
by sversus, 21 August 2008
koltregaskes
" Class, class, class! Love the ending."
by koltregaskes, 09 March 2008
Sweetspot
" Bryan Singer's and Kevin Spacey's quick leap to stardom. It is still Singer's best movie and maybe even one of the best crime thrillers of the nineties."
by Sweetspot, 01 July 2007
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