No matter how many times you watch this masterpiece, it never ceases to amaze you

Rating: Null/10 (18 July 2003)

"The Usual Suspects" is the greatest crime thriller ever made, no contest whatsoever. The plot focuses on a cop (Chazz Palminteri), who interrogates the only survivor of a massacre on a boat, gimp Roger "Verbal" Kint (Kevin Spacey). Kint tells him of a police line-up that happened two weeks earlier, and the story starts.
Members of the line-up are crime veteren Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), slightly psychotic McManus (Stephen Baldwin), clever Hockney (Kevin Pollak) and smoothie Fenster (Benicio Del Toro). Each actor plays their part so well that you don't even recognize them. Byrne looks more lazy than usual. Baldwin looks thin, and you forget that he's even a Baldwin brother.
Of course, none of these performances match Spacey's. He walks, talks and acts nothing like any of his previous characters. Spacey isn't just a fifteen minute star, he's a classic actor.
And this is a classic movie, 9/10.