cheap thrill ending?

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2001)

spoilers:
Should this movie be considered a cheap-thrill-ending movie because there is no real allusion to the ending through out the entire movie? It's definitely arguable, because any director could put the exact same ending on any movie and it would always be surprising that a complex story could be simply ad libbed. I disagree however, and think that the confusion results from an unwarranted comparison between other trick-ending movies like 'fight club' and the 'sixth sense.' In these movies, the viewer's understanding of a seemingly simple plot is destroyed at the end. The movie is actually quite complex and there is trail of evidence supporting the new ending. Only the end-perspective gained can explain everything. But in 'the usual suspects,' both perspectives (Spacey telling the truth or Spacey as Soza) explain everything in the movie. The only reason the latter explanation is chosen is to demonstrate this. Comparisons between 'usual' and 'fight/sixth' lacks the relevant similarity in movie structure.