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Release Date: 07 December, 1999 Retail Price: $24.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (15 total) |
The Usual Suspects Reviews
A thinking man's film
If you snooze you lose. I know it's a bad saying, but it's good advise to use before watching 'The Usual Suspects'. Although it's almost impossible to fall asleep during this film, if you do it's not worth trying to recuperate. There is so much information crammed into two hours of film, one minute of not paying attention will require at least ten minutes of explanation.
The film begins with the ending when a cargo ship, docked in the New York City harbor, blows up. Behind a clump of boating equipment, we see a scared Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), watching a man in black kill Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), blow up the ship, and then walk away. Now the plot is set. Through the police questioning of Mr. Kint, done by inspector Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), we go back to before the ship's land siege, finding out about a police line-up, and the mysterious man in black named Kayser Soze.
Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Baldwin, Garbriel Byrne, and others, along with a brilliantly written screenplay, make The Usual Suspects one of the best thrillers and most unpredictable films of all time. I bet you can't watch it only once.
WHO IS KEYSER SOZE?...
Christopher McQuarrie's Academy Award winning, original screenplay, coupled with Bryan Singer's masterful direction of a stellar cast, makes for a complex and absorbing film. Told in flashback, the film recounts how five individuals on the wrong side of the law hook up to steal a multi-million dollar cache of cocaine from a docked vessel.
Led by former Los Angeles detective turned bad guy, Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey), Michael McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Todd Hockey ((Kevin Pollack), and Fred Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), proceed to their rendevous point and begin executing their plan of action. Their foray into this million dollar drug heist turns bad almost immediately. Something or someone is afoot who does not want them to succeed, and who seems to know their every move.
The story is told in flashback by "Verbal" Kint, a club footed, crestfallen, soft spoken, unlikely looking criminal. He recounts the details of the doomed heist to hardnosed Detective, David Kujan (Chazz Palmentieri), building his story around an almost mythic, Hungarian crime lord named Keyser Soze. As "Verbal" details what happened, the viewer is mesmerized by his compelling narrative of how he and his partners in crime were inveigled into attempting this daring heist, which ultimately led to the disastrous events that culminated on the ship. It seems that their heist was probably destined to be doomed from the start, as another agenda may have been paramount to theirs.
Kevin Spacey won a 1995 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his low key, ingratiating portrayal of "Verbal" Kint. Gabriel Byrne also gives a compelling performance as the cop who ended on the wrong side of the law. The rest of the cast also give stellar performances, with the exception of Benicio Del Toro, who gives an odd, marble mouthed performance. Notwithstanding this, the film is really a splendid tour de force that is sure to captivate the viewer. Who is the mythic Keyser Soze? Watch the film and find out.
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