One of the Greatest Movies Ever, Period.

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2015)

After reflecting on this movie for months and months, it has slowly become one of my favorites. I read a load of negative reviews of this movie and the biggest grievances of dissenters is that the entire movie is a lie, and that watching it is pointless, because none of it ever happened. I would have to disagree.
To prove my point I'll use a film somewhat similar in structure, Life of Pi. At the very end of the movie, it is revealed that Pi's entire story was a lie, and was simply a way to draw parallels between it and a much more boring story which actually happened. THIS movie lies to the viewer flat out, not the Usual Suspects. In the Usual Suspects, the names of people and places were mad up by Kint, but there is a man named Keyser Soze who was involved in the story in some way, and whatever way the story is told, 27 people were killed in an explosion, so at least some of Kint's story is true.
This ambiguity is what makes the Usual Suspects so brilliant. When the movie reaches its climax, and all is revealed, it is hard not to feel an adrenaline rush, as well as a heap of mixed feelings. The main villain of the film gets away, which in and of itself is a bad thing, but I still couldn't help but crack a small knowing smile as both I and Kujan solved the case together.
But alas, it was all too late. The devil really did convince us that he didn't exist.