Keyser Soze/John Doe cancel each other out

Rating: Null/10 (13 November 2002)

SPOILERS!!!!!
Didn't like it. The "twist" ending was the equivalent of finding out that everything up until that point had been a dream. And if I understand correctly that Verbal (Kevin Spacey) is actually Keyser Soze then it's as though I sat through "Seven" again. Keyser Soze and the John Doe character in "Seven" are both portrayed as these elusive and almost mythic figures and in each film this elusive figure is equated with "the Devil himself." Someone actually utters that line in both films when talking about our mystery man. So when Kevin Spacey pops up in both roles they just sort of cancel each other out for me. Maybe I would have enjoyed "The Usual Suspects" a little more if I had not seen "Seven", although the "everything-you've-seen-and-heard-up-to-this-point-might-have-been-a-lie" ending would have still ultimately lowered it quite a few points in my estimation.