Brilliant, clever thriller

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2016)

Brilliant, clever thriller.
A ship in a harbour is torched and scores of people, crew and others, killed. There are only two survivors of the massacre. One is in hospital and badly burned. The other is a cripple named Verbal Kint, a minor member of a gang that formed by chance some time before...
A searingly brilliant thriller with one of the best, most unforeseen twists in movie history. Great set up, clever plot progression and ingenious use of narration. Edge-of-your-seat sort of stuff, with nothing being given away until the very end.
The script is so good it won writer Christopher McQuarrie an Oscar.
Excellent performance from Kevin Spacey, good enough to win him his first Oscar. Good performances too from Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollack and Stephen Baldwin (the latter two surprisingly so).