Sheer brilliance!!!

Rating: 10/10 (20 June 2002)

SPOILER The great thing that I realised about this movie wasn't the twist that fooled every person who ever watched it, but the fact that you can't help but fall for it.
Bryan Singer knows what he is doing to the audience and doesn't give you the chance to try make sense of what is going on. The film itself though is complicated and it is this that adds to the mystery of understanding it. Also the fact that you watch this time and time again and think that you understand it when really you can't get over the fact that you've been had.
Kevin Spacey gives a brilliant (Oscar winning) performance as the handicapped Verbal Kint, and you are shocked by the end when you come to the realisation that he is the infamous Kaiser Sosei, a name that has intrigued you throughout the film. Though if it weren't for the brilliant script and great direction the trick which has been played on the audience may not have worked at all. On the basis of this alone I would give nothing but praise for the film.
There has been no film of postmodern times that has pulled of a twist so good until this film came along. The only other film I would reccomend that does this just as well would have to be The Sixth Sense.