Usual Suspects

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2007)

This is the no. 19 top movies in the world list in IMDb, thus I was eager to see it.
The story is about 5 crooks who are on a mission to steal dope (drugs) and money from a ship on orders of a Kaizer Soze a super criminal legend. What happens is that 4 of them die and there is only one survivor who narrates the whole journey from the time they all were arrested for a crime they did not commit and how they end up dead  killed by Kaizer Soze. The police try to solve the mystery and find the murderer. Who is the murderer is the final twist in the tale  that is disclosed in the last two minutes.
The only survivor is Verbal (Kevin Spacey) and the four other crooks are Michael McManus (Stephan Baldwin), Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), Fred Fenster (Benicio Del Toro) and Todd Hockney (Kevin Pollak). The interrogating customs officer Dave Kujan is played by Chazz Palminteri. All the actors have acted well and the movie holds interest till the last scene.
But the movie does not live up to the suspense and expectation that it builds. The ending and disclosure of the murderer is childish. One laughs at the Director Bryan Singer on how he thinks of creating suspense  totally foolish. When there are characters who play role in the movie and engage audience in guessing  that make the movie interesting. But coming out with a stupid ending like this does not serve good for the creativity of being a director. With such dubious ending, the director could have taken any option totally unrelated to the movie and presented as if the mystery is solved.
So was there a mystery. Obviously not! Just for keeping us engaged throughout and for good acting, scripting, screenplay I give the movie (Stars 6.5 out of 10)