great trick or dirty trick?

Rating: 1/10 (24 March 2002)

*** CONTAINS SPOILERS ***
Many movies have twists in their plot. Some of these movies leave you bewildered, the others just leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
80% of this movie is based on Kint's narrative, and because of that, the narrative BECOMES the whole movie experience. I do not think it is clever or fair to end the movie by saying, "haha, just kidding. the whole movie is just a lie."
Some people think that Kint's narrative was true, he just obfuscated the names. IMHO, I don't think that would redeem the movie. If it's a good mind-twister, which it's supposed to be, the audience would say, "so he is Kaiser Soze, yes, thinking back, it was obvious." But no, any of those five suspects could have been Kaiser Soze, the hints were not obvious nor subtle. I felt that the screen wright randomly chose one of the suspects to be Kaiser Soze at the end.
Don't take me wrong, I think both the direction and acting are decent in this movie, but I cannot agree that the plot is anything special. In fact, except the big twist in the end, there is nothing exciting about it. To exaggerate it a little, the plot can be described as a glorified version of "Scream."