Well up in the top 10 Crime thrillers of all time - just what's better would be hard to nominate!

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2002)

To achieve a top twenty all time ranking..and a composite rating of 8.7 you are looking at one seriously relevant flick here.
To nominate the film as innovative is almost insulting. So multi-levelled and literate is it, that not one in a hundred people would have picked the solution. Told in coherent and linked flashback, we are presented with a kaleidoscope of facts, a smorgasboard of suspects and yet no thread with which to tie it all together. Spacey was totally deserving of his Best Supporting Actor Oscar as crippled con-man Roger Vint, grilled by cop Palminteri for the majority of the movie. Absolute blast of a performance from Pete Postlethwaite also, as the mysterious Kobayashi.
The last three minutes of the film are simply jaw dropping as both Palminteri and the audience realise that they have been "had" and in such a monumentally intelligent way. Up there with SLEUTH!