"The Usual Suspects" is a really great film. It is noted for having one of the most suprising endings in film history and it does. As the story begins, we see a man, who is given the nickname of Keyser Soze as we see later in the film, who has clearly just caused a disaster on a boat. He kills one man, that we see, and lights the boat on fire and walks away. We then open to a line-up of the usual suspects (Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne, and Kevin Pollack) for that police station. They have gathered all the usual people who are involved in crime in the city and threw them in one line-up. Then, when nobody is convicted, they start an ill-fated "gang" of crime and do various odd jobs ripping people off, and robbing people. Throughtout the film it is flashbacked to Verbal Kint (Spacey) who is being interigated by a ruthless cop, Agent Kujan (Chazz Palimenteri). As he is drilled by the police, Kint is starting to fall apart, or so we thought. The ending cannot really be explained, you have to watch it do understand. I reccomend it highly. A ****/****!
Spacey was phonominal in this film, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1995, as he gimped away with his late foot and his twisted hand. He was looked down upon as he was a cripple and nobody ever expected he was a crime lord who is feared by all. He had a great look of innocence and clueless-ness throught-out the entire film. He gimped around never breaking character which is hard when you almost crippling yourself. It was a great performance from a great actor who recieved well deserved critical appraise for. Bravo Mr. Spacey!
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I thought this would be higher on ur list (for obvious reasons). Awesome performance, even awesomer (:p) performance.
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