Spoiler Alert

Rating: 9/10 (26 February 2018)

(Spoiler Alert)
I would love to say that the success of the thriller genre movies is always when then audience is failed to guess the main villain or antagonist of the film. In The Usual Suspects, I can predict who is the real "Keyser Soze" almost after an hour of the movie duration because previously I had watched movie starred by actor Kevin Spacey such as Seven. But the brilliant writing of pre climax and climax (both plot twist) by Christopher McQuarrie cheated me for a moment even though the end result is same as what I had predicted earlier. Without delay, let me go to some unusual facts about The Usual Suspects.
1. The title comes from the name of an article in Spy Magazine that Christopher McQuarrie thought would make a great movie.
2. The line-up scene was originally intended to be serious yet the actors were messing around so much that director Bryan Singer decided to put the funniest version in. Blame supposedly lies with Benicio Del Toro's flatulence.
3. When the characters are handed manila envelopes containing their personal details, the order references the order in which they die.
4. Al Pacino turned down the role of Dave Kujan due to scheduling conflicts. He's later admitted that he regretted this greatly.
5. The small role of Redfoot was offered out to Tommy Lee Jones, Charlie Sheen, Johnny Cash, Jeff Bridges and James Spader. It was eventually played by Peter Greene.
6. The interrogation scenes were shot prior to the rest of the film, over the course of five days.
7. The stolen emeralds were actually real gemstones, which were loaned for the shoot.
8. Writer Christopher McQuarrie came up with the idea while working at a solicitors office. He made up the plot from a notice board.
9. 30 of the close-ups in the film were actually done in Bryan Singer's backyard.
10. Benicio Del Toro decided that he was playing a "Black Chinese Puerto Rican Jew".
11. Neither Bryan Singer or Christopher McQuarrie was aware that the line "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing man he didn't exist" was from French poet Baudelaire until after the film was finished.
12. Kevin Spacey claimed that Bryan Singer managed to convince all of the major actors that they were Keyser Soze. At the first screening, an angry Gabriel Byrne stormed off when he realised the truth.
13. Keyser Soze was based on murderer John List, who killed his family in the 70s and then disappeared for 18 years.
14. To make his disability seem more realistic, Kevin Spacey had his fingers glued together.
15. Kevin Spacey met Bryan Singer at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and was so impressed with his movie Public Access that he asked to be cast in his next film.
16. Christopher McQuarrie originally used the character name Keyser Sume after one of his law firm supervisors but changed it slightly after he worried what he might think.
17. Execs at Gramercy Pictures were concerned that audiences might not be able to pronounce the name Keyser Soze so launched a teaser campaign with the tagline "Who is Keyser Soze?" before release and created TV spots which instructed people on how to say his name.
18. In the opening sequence, the unknown gunman urinates on a flame and it is gelatinous and lumpy. Later on, Verbal tells Kujan that when he gets dehydrated, his urine becomes gelatinous and lumpy.