That's real crime stuff

Rating: 8/10 (31 December 2000)

O, my God! We have seen so many films with gangster bosses and ordinary criminals and police officers and much more usual suspects! It's unbelievable that this movie is from the year 1995; judging by the plot it could be from the 1940s: so pure, so absolutely perfect in its being a thriller, a whodunnit, a riddle for the audience!
The solution, of course, though presented in a visually stunning way, is not what I expect from a good punch-line`. *******SPOILER HERE!******* I mean, they made things easy for themselves with the ending by negating the whole story, saying: All you've seen the last 90 minutes, it's not true.` It's that kind of solution, where you feel great when you see it, but later, thinking about it, you realize it wasn't that creative. It was so with me, at least. *******SPOILER OVER!*******
However, this film is worth watching, not only because it's a classic example for its genre, but also in order to see Kevin Spacey in his first Oscar-role, playing a completely different kind of character then in his second, American Beauty`.