The Usual Suspects

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A ship explodes at a dockside quay. Five criminals languish in a cell, but only one knows the whole story. One of the most accomplished thrillers of the 1990s.

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Special Edition. Widescreen (2.35:1). Includes 'Making of' featurettes, trailers, deleted scenes, interviews, commentaries. Multi soundtrack/subtitle options inc. HOH subtitles.

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Review by Steven Thomas on 15th April 2002

A smart and unpredictable heist thriller, The Usual Suspects on original release was unfairly compared to Tarantino’s self-consciously hip level of moviemaking but with time and its growth in cult status, this dense and bemusing crime classic proves itself to be more intriguing than the subsequent trend of crime clichés born of Tarantino could ever hope to be.

Bryan Singers taut and complex follow up to his debut feature Public Access, reveals itself as are commodity in modern film-making, revealing itself to be a film which continues to confound audiences nearly a decade later, still posing the films major question, who is Keyzer Soze?

Centring on the simple but effective premise of five supposedly unconnected petty criminals brought in for the now iconic police line-up, which is later discovered to have been orchestrated by the mysterious Soze who uses the quintet to mastermind a supposedly routine heist on a drug smuggling ship. Relayed in flashback by the only survivor, the crippled Verbal Kint whilst in custody, the story begins to focus on the identity of the elusive crimelord.

Christopher McQuarrie’s rug-pulling screenplay provides a wealth of conjecture and distrust leading those who follow the films cerebral storyline to disregard everything they have believed, right up to the justifiably famous final twist, which begs the need to re-evaluate everything that has gone before.

Still admired as one of the films of the 90’s, The Usual Suspects continues to influence filmmakers and keep audiences asking who is Keyzer Soze?

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In my formative years, I spent a large amount of evenings at the cinema, watching all sorts of movies with my mother. Unfortunately my mother had the bad habit of asking what was going on EVERY TIME someone spoke or did something. I sincerely apologise to anyone who had to endure this constant chatter in Lyme Regis Cinema during the early 90s. To make up for it, here is a list of some brilliant movies that I would never take my mother to. It would just be too painful.

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this is a list of the best films ever which has been compiled by someone who watches a lot of films. the list is based on my only opinion and I do not claim it to count for the opinions of everyone else like some magazine lists and awards.

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