Good movie, if you just watch it as a movie and not as a way to stroke your ego..

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2001)

This is a good movie with a good ending. Now if you look through these comments you will see person after person ready to rip it to shreds to prove how they are just SOOOO intelligent compared to average movie goers, this happens with almost every plot twist movie.
The amusing thing is how almost all of these comments state something to the effect "I heard friends tell me this is a good movie and had a great plot twist but after sitting down and examining the movie the plot twist is stupid."
When you go into a plot twist flick ready to pick it apart no plot twist in the world is satisfying, I am a huge fan of Jacob's Ladder so to me the Sixth Sense was no surprise at all, I figured it out in 5 minutes, and was rather disappointed. Does this make the movie an "insult to my intelligence?"
No, I was just already familiar with that kind of plot so there was no twist in it for me. Almost the same thing happened with Fight Club, I overheard people discussing the fact that it had a plot twist so when I sat down and watched the DVD I figured it out rather quickly.
The Usual Suspects was totally different, I had never heard of the movie and picked it out of my friends collection since I had never seen it and was in the mood to watch something new, I knew of no plot twist and had heard no hype. I am sure if it had been hyped up by friends and family I would have figured out who Soze was as soon as that character was mentioned but I wasn't in "catch a plot twist" mode. I was in "sit back and enjoy a movie" mode.
The ending came as a surprise and I enjoyed it immensely.
So anyway, watch this movie to watch a movie, not a way to prove your superior intelligence to your friends.