The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the
world he didn’t exist.
This Film was invented to tell stories like ’’The Usual Suspects’’. Intelligent, tightly wound mysteries whose facts can be bent, distorted and rearranged whenever and however the filmmakers deem fit are rarely attempted by modern filmmakers. Perhaps it’s because they are the most difficult movies to do well. When done poorly, the pieces don’t quite mesh and the movie falls apart. However, when it is done correctly--and the audience must wait until the very last minute for the truth--it’s certainly worth it. And please read the review till the end !!
Told mostly in flashback as recounted after the fact by crippled small time con man ’’Verbal’’ Kint (Kevin Spacey), The Usual Suspects refers to five thugs -- McManus (Steven Baldwin), Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), Hockney (Kevin Pollack), Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) and Kint -- connected to a supposed drug deal. Customs Agent, Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), obsessed with nailing ex-cop Keaton as the head of the operation, flies to Los Angeles to question Kint, but Kint’s testimony doesn’t corroborate Kujan’s hunches. Kint instead tells of the events that led up to the five thugs coming into contact with a lawyer named Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite) who blackmailed them into pulling a job for a man named Keyser Soze.
Who is Keyser Soze, you might ask? Good question. Soze is a legendary murderer whose name strikes fear into the hearts of both criminals and detectives alike. As Agent Kujan tries to make sense of Kint’s story he gets closer to figuring out the true identity of Keyser Soze and understanding the true motive behind the supposed drug deal --or does he???????
The Usual Suspects is a thrilling whodunit from every angle. The acting
is superb - Spacey won the Best Supporting Actor as Verbal Kint - and the writing is exceptional. Chris McQuarrie’s script, which also won an Academy Award, creates a mindbending story that, enhanced by Bryan Singer’s direction, can’t possibly be figured out upon first glance. By grabbing the audience by the point of view, so to speak, and deliberately manipulating what’s perceived as reality on the screen, The Usual Suspects promises to reveal new insight with each repeated viewing.
Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger ’’Verbal’’ Kint, says, ’’The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.’’ This may be the key line in this story; the farther along the movie goes, the more one realizes that not everything is quite what it seems, and what began as a conventional whodunit turns into something quite different. A massive explosion rips through a ship in a San Pedro, California harbor, leaving 27 men dead, the lone survivor horribly burned, and $91 million worth of cocaine, believed to be on board, mysteriously missing. Police detective Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) soon brings in the only witness and key suspect, ’’Verbal’’ Kint. Kint’s nickname stems from his inability to keep his mouth shut, and he recounts the events that led to the disaster. Five days earlier, a truckload of gun parts was hijacked in Queens, New York, and five men were brought in as suspects: Kint, hot-headed hipster thief McManus (Stephen Baldwin), ill-tempered thug Hockney (Kevin Pollak), flashy wise guy Fenster (Benicio del Toro), and Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), a cop gone bad now trying to go straight in the restaurant business. While in stir, someone suggests that they should pull a job together, and Kint hatches a plan for a simple and lucrative jewel heist. Despite Keaton’s misgivings, the five men pull off the robbery without a hitch and fly to Los Angeles to fence the loot. Their customer asks if they’d be interested in pulling a quick job while out West; the men agree, but the robbery goes horribly wrong and they soon find themselves visited by Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite), who represents a criminal mastermind named Keyser Soze. Soze’s violent reputation is so infamous that he’s said to have responded to a threat to murder his family by killing them himself, just to prove that he feared no one. When Kobayashi passes along a heist proposed by Soze that sounds like suicide, the men feel that they have little choice but to agree.
In the end I would strongly recommend this movie and I suggest at no time concentration should be lost, take hold on the plots !! They are really too good if you try to Camkofy. These movies are made only once!!. The dialouges were not pretty clear when I watched the movie for the first time. I gathered around with some script on the net and went on to watch this movie again. A must see movie !!
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https://godamongdirectors.com/scripts/usual.shtml
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