SexyFunkyCool

Rating: Null/10 (7 April 2000)

What makes a film good? Incredible photography? Briliant Actors? Excellent plot? The Usual Suspects has all three of them. It is funk,sexy and cool at the same time. And ladies and gentlemen, that is hard to achieve. It all starts with a explosion (which was filmed at Bryan Singers backyard)where everybody dies. Only two survives. One is a burned-out bulgarian man who can only say Keyser Soze, the other is a cripple named Verbal Kint (played masterly by Kevin Spacey). It is a little difficult interviewing the bulgaraian as he is near death so it is up to Dave Kujan, a Customs interrogator to interview this cripple. What Verbal Kint gives him is a fascinating story of 5 guys trying to cooperate with Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) as the leading character in the criminal group. What Kint does is to
manipulate the other suspects in the group, heist-men Michael McManus (Baldwin), Fred Fenster (Del Toro), Todd Hockney (Kevin Pollak) and Keaton. Kevin Spacey becomes soon the real hero of the film managing the difficult but not uncommon trick of really being the leading role when technically being a supporting actor. You could see this movie just for Spacey`s performance (he won an Oscar for best supporting actor). The film has some incredible Soundbites like: "The Greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn`t exist". This movie will have you on the edge of your seat. It also has what in my opinion is the best ending in movie history. And I have seen a lot of endings. This movie is altogether SexyFunkyCool. What are you waiting at? Go see it.