The Movie That Negates Itself

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 2012)

No exaggeration. As others have pointed out, once we get to the surprise ending, the reaction is...hey, what did we just see for the past two hours? I was at a youth hostel in Philadelphia years ago and they showed different movies in the evening including this one. I ended up watching it because at evening in Philadelphia, everything except nightclubs close up. Just as well I didn't pay for it, because while the movie was at first exciting, it then became too confusing and in the end, when we expect the "cripple's" confession to tie everything together and reveal who Keyser Soze was, well...
So we see things in the police office to suggest that the "cripple" had been making up his whole story, that the "cripple" really wasn't, and so on until we get the point that the past two hours were what really didn't happen. And we never find out what really is the truth after all. All this time spent on a false story? This wasn't a surprise ending, this was a gyp!