I can't feel my legs.........

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2015)

After a waterfront explosion, Verbal, an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the event.
Five men are rounded for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking.
Least pleased is Keaton, a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone though, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four.
All goes well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt........
There is nothing I can say that hasn't already been said about this masterpiece of a movie. It's easily one of the best films to be released in the nineties, and along with Shawshank, Leon, and Pulp Fiction, its in really good company, because whenever you mention one of the above films, you instantly think of the others.
The film works so well because of the narrative between Kint and Kujan. Yes, the story is fascinating, but its Verbals narrative that constructs the way he story goes, it's his story, his narrative, his film if you would, hence 'Verbal'.
When you watch this film for the fifth or sixth time, you begin to ask yourself, just how much of the actual story is true?, just how much exposition, and juxtaposition has he put into his story?
All of the other characters are important to the story, but not necessarily the narrative, because the story doesn't have a clear path, because it's all Verbals version.
The cast are wonderful, and it's really strange to see just how careers went after this. They are all career defining performances.
Set pieces are terrific, but Verbals story of Keyser Soze still gives me goosebumps, Spaceys delivery of that speech is one of the most perfect pieces of acting I've ever seen.
Harking back to noir movies of the forties, the film is an exceptional piece of cinema, and whoever thinks they know who Keyser is, it's perfectly clear that Verbal was the one with brains....