A Classic Breakthrough Movie for Kevin Spacey and Cast

Rating: 10/10 (4 November 2013)

"The Usual Suspects", is an old school drama that exemplifies how truly great screen writing, direction, and acting can come together to create a "huge" movie with relatively minimal budget and production effort,and captures some of the best acting ever caught on film by it's cast members. From its onset, "The Usual Suspects", virtually transports the viewer from their seat right into the action itself.
Its seemingly circuitous plot line hooks the viewer so tightly that they simply cannot wrench themselves from the screen. The attention to each and every minute detail innocuously revealed to us as Kevin Spacey's wonderfully crafted and portrayed character is interrogated is absolutely mind boggling; and, as the story line almost excruciating slowly unfolds itself, pulls every viewer further and further into the detectives' angst driven desire to get to the bottom of the case. Yet the awe inspiring screen writing and direction serves up all these details as though they are absolutely insignificant until the plot loop finally, completely, and almost instantaneously closes.
All along this ride the viewer is drawn to the next scene,if not the very next word, like a moth to a flame. Regardless of the audience, the viewers always become unwitting, active participants in the detectives' search for the truth behind the actions of all involved in the unknown, unseen, dark, criminal mastermind's grand scheme. The "Usual Suspects" is, and will always remain, a true testament to the art and passion that a cast and crew bring to a set and how that passion, more than any other single factor, can create a truly classic film.