This review is simple and contains "SPOILERS"..........

Rating: 2/10 (9 July 2012)

Since I enjoy praising a great film considerably more than slamming one that I didn't like then I'll try to make it as short as possible.
When I seen this the first time I was already aware of a central character named Kaiser Sose so the question was "who"?
Kevin Spacey enters a police station and the story begins to unfold. In the first 15 minutes or so I, without concentrating hardly at all, said something out loud....."I'll bet Kevin is Kaiser". Of course I turned out to be right. The reason I said it so quickly was.....1.Kevin Spacey's performance as a handicap was truthfully completely unconvincing. 2.Nobody would ever carry on about things like Barber Shop Quartets, big time fat people etc., etc. in a police questioning.
These two ridiculously obvious issues automatically makes the finger point directly at Kevin Spacey.
This entire film reminded me of (and this is not a put down because it was legitimately brilliant) a scene in The Sixth Sense that was perfectly executed comedy relief.....when Bruce Willis does the magic shake scene with a Penney to Haley Joel Osment. Later Haley passes on the routine to another kid and that kid responds respectively with "That's stupid, I want my Penney back".
This whole movie was one long and dragged out bad joke that was seemingly supposed to be serious. That's dumb, I wanted my money back. Every Penney.
A truly genius handicap performance was John Hurt in The Elephant Man. John should have received an Oscar but didn't. Kevin received one for this?!
Not to mention, would anyone really be terrified of Kevin Spacey? No, they simply would not. Even if you didn't figure out that he was Sose until the poorly constructed "twist" ending, I ask again....."Would you honestly be terrified of Kevin Spacey?"
Tell the truth?