big BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

Rating: Null/10 (30 October 1999)

I finally got around to seeing THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and I had heard so much good things about it and after seeing it I was sorely disappointed. This movie is sooooooo convoluted from start to finish, it's slow, it starts to get a little action going and then it gets even slower. There's a couple of scenes where the main cast (byrne, spacey, baldwin, pollock, etc.) just seem to be sitting around on their butts doin nothing but yakking away, no action, and a lot of uninteresting dialogue.
The ending is interesting, and I do like Kevin Spacey's performance it most everything he does.
I guess it's one of those things where the director knows what is going to happen, goes over the story every day they shoot it, knows every thing about it, and gets to the point where he thinks we the viewer should understand everything he's directing. Not so. If this is vintage Bryan Singer direction, then I have a VERY BAD feeling for his upcoming X-MEN project.