Even better the second time

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2014)

The film was great with an excellent plot twist at its end. A group is 'called' together with the common background of having made the film's antagonist upset, so they must do a job for him to wipe their debt clean. The group consists of Michael McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Fred Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), Todd Hockney (Kevin Pollak), and Roger 'Verbal' Kint (Kevin Spacey). The theme of duality comes up as Dean Keaton is trying to be legit, though he can't escape his past, and there is also the true identity of Keyser Soze – the film's antagonist. Duality of character is commonly used, like in Psycho.
The group is rounded up following the prologue of the film by the police after being fingered that one of them was supposedly part of a robbery. The rest of the information about what happened is done through flashbacks by means of Verbal talking to the police. The group was to be held for a while, but in Dean's pursuit of a normal life he is dating an accomplished lawyer, which got him out of jail though he hadn't been charged with anything. Later in the film the audience is informed by Verbal's flashbacks that Mr. Soze has a job for them to perform, which would wipe away any debt they have to him. Before Soze's job is introduced to the group, Dean goes against his attempt at a normal life and does 'one final job' with the group to get back at the police for ruining his normalcy.
The five don't like the odds in the job put before them, especially Fred Fenster, so they try threatening Mr. Soze indirectly by seeing Mr. Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite), who is Soze's lawyer and voice. The camera shots of Verbal were rather well done in capturing his emotion during the scene, and the camera angles of Michael and Dean threatening Kobayashi were close for a personal feel. Things take a turn and Dean and the rest find that Soze's lawyer is extremely well informed. The group decides to do Soze's job since it seems he knows too much about them.
The group goes to a ship to take a shipment of drugs away from Soze's competition, but it goes foul, as can be seen from the prologue of the film. Through the flashbacks it appears that the identity of Mr. Soze is made apparent, which is actually what the police present as an idea to Verbal during interrogations. Verbal swears their view is incorrect, but the police make him see otherwise, that it was just difficult to see from his vantage point near the docks. The police let him go and the audience gets to Verbal's duality.