Brad Pitt can ACT

Rating: 9/10 (17 September 1999)

There are lots of other reviews on this film, but I just had to state one thing... which is that Brad Pitt absolutely deserved an Academy Award for this film. I thought he was a pretty-boy annoying actor until I watched his performance here, and it was unlike any other I have seen.
He did not win in 1995... he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and lost to Kevin Spacey for The Usual Suspects.
The Usual Suspects was an excellent film. It won an Oscar for its screenplay. But Spacey won his award because no one guessed the ending before its time... which is not inherently the work of an actor, but of the script working so very well. Spacey wasn't playing Soze playing Kint... he was just playing Kint.
Brad Pitt is playing a psycho, but not JUST a psycho... a subtly nuanced psycho, so you can see all that is going on in his head... he's got different levels, and is thus more real than Verbal Kint or Keyser Soze can ever be.
And scarier too.
Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe also give A+ performances, and you should see this film if you're up for a head trip. That was all I wanted to say.