Overrated & Senseless !!

Rating: 2/10 (7 June 2005)

The only best thing about The Usual Suspects is that there were possibilities of better story deriving from the concept which the writers brought up with.
Five strangers meet & work together for their criminal career till some super-don known as "Keyser Soze" blackmails them to rob a ship with valuable drugs and to kill the on board drug dealers. The ship don't have any drugs and four out of the five-some are killed by the Don himself, just to know in the end that the fifth survivor himself was Keyser Soze who plans the whole thing by conning his short-time partners. The Con was made up actually to kill a person who was about to disclose the identity of Keyser Soze to his rivals.
Again, the fifth survivor (Verbal Kint played by Kevin Spacey) when gets caught after the Ship is destructed, is offered immunity and when interrogated bluffs the whole story as he being insane and part of the con.
So the first question arises is IF AT ALL "KEYSER SOZE" WAS THAT Powerful, why he needed some filthy criminals to get the work done for him ? IF he was that intelligent, didn't he knew the possibilities ? Keyser Soze imitating as Verbal kint is projected as a much clever approach but still at the end he is recognized by the Customs & Police.
This film is overrated and at the end it does not become a lavish outcome, primarily because, it projected the whole plot very simple-to-happen. The script is shabby and was kept concentrating more on flash backs & uniqueness in story-telling editing patterns. The direction never planted intensity & realistic approach. The dialogs are over spoken to relate the cleverness of the plot which was not necessary. The Custom officers are shown dull and organizations effort for detailed investigation was too loose to believe.
Secondly, this is not an ad wherein if you cant convince then better confuse. Even the confusion given to the audience is not worth thinking on it. The fatal flaw is just the loss of sensibility that a Mafia Gangster just need not do all these efforts to finish a Job which was easy to handle for them !