Wow...what a film...

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2000)

One day, I was at college in a Media Studies lesson and I turned to the lad next to me, nameably Richard 'The Legend' Davies and I said 'This is boring, seen any good films recently?'. He smiled and then said 'Oh God, yeah'. I asked about what film it was and he replied with 'It's called 'The Usual Suspects' directed by Bryan Singer'. Now, Rich had decent taste in films as his favourites were 'The Godfather' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. I took his recommendation of the film and hired it out that very night. Amazed is one way to describe my feeling towards the film as soon as I had finished watching it. Since then I've been out and bought it and it has become a great favourite of mine. What can be said that hasn't already been said about how good Kevin Spacey is? He is absolutely brilliant in this and is supported superbly by a variety of actors such as Pete Posthelwaite, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro and Stephen Baldwin (Who I thought was a tosser before I saw this and realised how good he is!). This film has slowly but surely made it's way into my Top 10 films of all time. I recently was given the screenplay free at university and I have just finished reading it and it's just as good! This truely is a fantastic film and one to be watched over and over again.