Usual Suspects Vs The Rest Of Cinema

Rating: 4/10 (15 June 2006)

This could also count for other films of the Usual Suspects-Tarantino Copy generation. This is a sh*t film. To avoid being automatically disregarded, I won't compare it to Citizen Kane. So how about: in comparison to City Lights, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Vertigo, The Wrong Man, All About Eve, Vivre Sa Vie... damnit, even Pulp Fiction! this film is no masterpiece, and is pap entertainment the value of the Big Lebowski or Forrest Gump. Every now and then you have to reassure yourself of true artistic endeavour, with a good stare at Vermeer's Head of a Girl, a listen to Beethoven's 9th, Kind of Blue, or Beatles for Sale, or a good intense session of silent film studying. Even watching cinema as far ahead as Raging Bull. What tragically detracts from the art are films like the usual suspects, and even worse, the confusion between them and true masterpieces.