ONE OF THOSE MOVIES THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER!

Rating: Null/10 (29 November 2003)

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THE USUAL SUSPECTS is one of 'those' movies, it has that certain 'something' that makes a movie great. No-one knows what it is, and if they did they would be rich off making their own movies, but it is there just the same. 'HIGHLANDER' had it 'AMERICAN BEAUTY' had it as did others, it is that 'something' that makes a low budget movie that really should not work into a low budget movie that does. That something is style and this movie is dripping with it. Everyting from the performances to the score, the the cinematography and even the lighting gives this movie so much style it leaves those of you who shop at next and cut their hair as short as possible wishing you had this much style in one finger as this film has in one second.
Even eight years on this film does not look dated because the costumes were based around style rather than fashion and while fashions come and go style remains constant. The actors deliver their lines with style and this is why no matter how ludicrus the plot gets (and it does) we forgive and love the cast all at once. How else could you deliver the line "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" and keep a straight face? the answer is simple you do it with style, and lots (and lots) of it.
Simply the usual suspects is a silly script acted out in a silly way and directed to a silly vision but all are done with so much style that we (film fans the world over) will be debaiting it for decades to come.