Usual Suspects

Pros: Excellently written, acted, and directed.
Cons: Quite a bit of cussing in quite colorful terms but fits with subject matter. NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 17

Not since the deathbed scene of Citizen Kane and his utterance of "Rosebud" has an original screenplay transported the viewer on a more intriguing search for THE answer than this film, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie's "The Usual...

Pros: see review
Cons: see review

If O. Henry was alive today, "The Usual Suspects" might be the type of story he would write. This film is jam-packed with details, detective work, conspiracies, action, adventure, and most of all mystery. It's interesting to watch because of...

Pros: Very well written, casted, and acted. A smart film!
Cons: It's been out for awhile, the ending may have been revealed to you before you see it.

There are those sweet moment in ones life, the moments that, as they are unfolding, we realize we will never experience them again in the exact same way. These are “first” experiences…a first kiss, the first time you ever tasted a mango or kiwi, your...

Pros: practically everything! acting, plot, screenplay, characters, diologue...
Cons: none that matter

...was convincing the world he didn't exist." This is my absolute favorite quote from the movie. I have to give it up to the writers of this film, because it is just done wonderfully! I've seen this movie many times, and every time I watch it, I...

Pros: Every single frame
Cons: it ends

The usual Suspects gets its title from a line spoken by Claude Rains (The Invisible Man) in Casablanca, "Round up the usual suspects". hat is but the first clever trick pulled by Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie...

Pros: completely inventive, great performances, excellent film craft
Cons: complex

This is one of my favorite movies. For something that is not on any level a horror movie, it is one of the creepiest films I have ever seen. Partly this is because of the plot, which has supernatural implications as the myth of Kyser Soze gets...

Pros: Excellent Performance by Spacey
Cons: Fragmented Form Weird to Follow

In the film The Usual Suspects, "Verbal" Kint says to Agent Kujan, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist". Through this particular quote in the film, Kint represents the devil while the...

Pros: Classic Film Noir and An Excellent cast
Cons: Some may have a hard time following it

In a tribute to Film Noir, Brian Singer produces one of the best movies of all time. "The Usual Suspects" is anything but usual. From beginning to end, you wonder who is behind Kiser Soza.

The movie opens with a scene of Keating...

Pros: You just can't stop thinking about it...
Cons: You just can't stop thinking about it!

While finishing some last minute cramming for a midterm, my roommate John popped "The Usual Suspects" into the VCR. "Admit," he said, "This'll be a great film to fall asleep to."
"I dunno," I replied,...

Pros: Intricate plot, super cast, suspense, dialogue
Cons: Soundtrack not 5.1 on DVD

Believe it or not, Usual Suspects was actually somewhat of a sleeper when it first came out in 1995...but no longer. Suspects combines a great cast, an intricate story (don't find too many of those these days), and outstanding directing.

What...

Pros: acting, writing, filming all spectacular
Cons: none

It is hard to believe that the time it took to write this movie took only slightly longer than the running time of the finished project. Never in my life have I been so caught up in a suspense-laden drama-action movie and been caught so off guard by the...

Pros: Far too many to list in a 15-word summary.
Cons: For once, I have nothing bad to say. I'm stumped.

The most hardened criminals in the world fear no one… except Keyser Soze.

So proclaims Bryan Singer’s 1995 neo-noir sleeper THE USUAL SUSPECTS, or, as I like to call it, the “Movie That Came From Nowhere”. And it really did come from nowhere,...

Pros: Everything
Cons: Nothing

Anyone who has ever critiqued something has set expectations of some sort. Whether it be how something will taste at a restaurant, or sound like from a familiar artist, the notion of what we expect is there. When it comes to movies, most critics have...

Pros: easy pick for anybody's list for top five movies of the 90's
Cons: I feel sorry for you if you haven't seen it

"Back when I was in that barber shop quartet in Skokie, IL"

Yeah-there are a lot of imitation movies when it comes to the genre Hitchcock practically invented, the surprise ending mystery\suspense\freakshow. Bryan Singer pulls off a...

Pros: Can't say without spoiling.
Cons: Can't say without spoiling.

All right… this time I’m actually going to do it. I swear. I’m gonna do it. I’m going to write my review of The Usual Suspects. Yeah, it’s one of those damn great films that sits in my video collection that I’ve written up once and once only (and...