Just what I suspected

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2019)

I heard about this movie too many times so I had to go watch it and figure out for myself is it really that good or simply overrated? A bit of both.
The concept is not new and the way the story goes through flashbacks and flashforwards was overused in the 1990s but the movie does its best out of it and glues you to the seat and makes you stay until the credits. "The usual suspects" is not that exciting because it looks a lot like a simple who-done-it detective story with a usual twist in the end and all you have to do is guess which is probably the main reason why I didin't enjoy this movie - I already knew how it's going to end.
The music helps a lot here: it is very beautiful and outstandingly put over and into the story. The actors' performances is also the strongest point of the movie except for maybe Kevin Spacey's - it seems at times that he's trying a bit too hard and you are able to see through him since the first scene he appears in. Overall the movie is a good and solid piece of art but it leaves you nothing to think about afterwords. I guess I'll never get into detective stories because of their recycled, one-time nature.