Amazing from beginning to end.

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2000)

In "The Usual Suspects", Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Hockney (Kevin Pollak), and Kint (Kevin Spacey) are arrested for a crime that one of them may have committed and put in a police line-up. A few weeks later, there's bloody shootout in the Long Beach harbor and Kint is one of the few survivors of what happened that night. One customs agent, Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) is determined to find out what Kint didn't tell the D.A.. The conversation between Kint and Kujan is long and has a plenty of flashbacks. The performances in this movie are played to complete perfection. A few examples would be Spacey's that earned him a Best Supporting Oscar, Byrne and Palminteri, who should have earned at least a Best Actor nomination, and Pete Postlewaite is good as the middle man Koyabashi and maybe Keyser Soze. John Ottman's spellbinding musical score, Newton Thomas Siegel's artistic cinematography, and Howard Cummings's colorful production design set the perfect tone. The ending is a little bit questionable, but it's still good in a way.