Would you still love me....

Rating: 3/10 (18 July 2000)

...if I didn't have a "twist" ending? (SPOILERS, of course. Read no further if you've not seen the film). Perhaps I have a short attention span, but I did have some trouble following the plot at first. My biggest complaint is that a lot of the characters were underdeveloped. Most of the people generally did not have any traits to distinguish themselves from each other. I was rather bored. When I saw this movie I had already heard there was a big "twist". So when people were discussing the identity of this Keyser Soze, I couldn't help but think to myself "hmm... wouldn't it be wild if the cop giving the interrogation was Keyser, or maybe Verbal Kint, or maybe....". You just find yourself going through the ropes imagining wild possibilities, and so when Verbal's leg straightens out and we see his sketched face coming out of the fax machine, it failed to have any impact with me. I'm sure that if I had been unaware that there was some kind of twist in the film, this ending would have hit me a little harder- but I'm skeptical that would have made me admire the preceding 100 minutes much more. I'm sure if I saw this again, I might find other things to appreciate. No doubt, throughout the movie there must have been clever clues to Keyser's identity that I did not pick up on the first time around. But would that make it worth it for me to sit through this again? I'll never know, as I am not willing to spend a couple more hours of my life on this movie. I give it a 5 out of 10.