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The Usual Suspects |  | Director: Bryan Singer
Actors: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey
Studio: MGM
Category: Movie
Buy New: $2.99
as of 9/8/2010 05:46 CDT details
Seller: Amazon Video On Demand
Rating:  580 reviews
Sales Rank: 1069
Genre: Drama
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 106 Minutes
ASIN: B00101ZOTA
Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1995
Release Date: November 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Synopsis:
A gruesome scene is left at a pier in San Pedro, south of Los Angeles. Twenty-seven dead bodies. A burned-out ship smoldering in the harbor. An FBI agent assesses the carnage and learns of two survivors: one in the hospital, the other a cripple from New York being held in the DA's office. He heads to the hospital in search of answers... but the most pressing question is "Who is Keyser Soze?" |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bad Movie May 18, 2010
Julia Haire (MS)
1 out of 15 found this review helpful
I am 67 years old and have seen lots of movies over the years. I don't consider myself a "prude", but as long as movies like this one are made the public will buy them and that is a crying shame. It makes a horrible example to young people and older people as well because the language is horrible (and to my way of thinking is not necessary).
To my way of thinking also, it was a ridiculous movie.
 A great suspenseful movie April 10, 2010
Linda Mcglothin (Heber City, Utah)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have seen this movie a dozen times and never get tired of it. I waited to get a copy at a good price and this answered that wait. The service is great. Delivery fast and the quality of the DVD is as if it was new (I purchased a used copy rated Very Good). I have since purchased another movie from the same supplier and anticipate it being another good buy.
 Exercise in futility April 1, 2010
MauricioD
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
To paraphrase Jeff Shannon's fair warning: a) this production ultimately makes little or no sense at all, and; b) the final scene renders the entire movie pointless. An enjoyable cast (Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palmintieri, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Benicio Del Toro) pursues a twisted plot where much suspension of disbelief is expected. Consequently, its audience should extend a considerable degree of tolerance. Also, despite the admittedly intriguing premise, true wit is lacking, for which I would instead turn to Rene Clair's 'And Then There Were None;' Howard Hawks' 'The Big Sleep' or to Herbert Ross' 'The Last Of Sheila.'
Complex Scheme, w ith Surprise Ending March 14, 2010
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
The Usual Suspects stars Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benico Del Toro and Kevin Pollak as five small-time criminals that get involved with a strange scheme I found hard to understand. The first scene is a line-up for a trumped up charge and as they wait together a plot is hatched to combine forces.
Several crimes are committed successfully, leading up to one big hit for $91 million dollars. Beyond that there is a sub-plot of Keyser Soze, a terrible, secretive, underworld killer gang leader that no one can prove is real, other than stories of his cold, horrendous temper and killing binges.
Because some of the dialogue is not easily understood, it was hard to keep an interest in most of the movie. The final thirty minutes make the Usual Suspects worth watching, strange yet fascinating surprise ending.
See this movie, and see it again, and again March 13, 2010
Christian Kober (Shanghai)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What do five criminals in a lineup do? 5 criminals in a lineup? This starting point already sets the tone of this movie. And it only gets better from here. This movie describes in flashbacks how a group of 5 criminals is gently or not so gently persuaded to do a job for the mysterious Keyzer Söse, a master criminal, the great puppet player. Every cut offers some new take on reality, offers yet another look at the interpersonal dynamics between the main characters and always leaves the viewer with the feeling that something is still amiss, like that puzzle piece which nearly but not perfectly fits, this nagging doubt in the back of ones head about a story too perfect to be true.
And thus we follow this gang on their path towards self destruction. Slowly all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, slowly one realizes that each and every move of them had somehow been preordained, that even in their rebellion they were still following the masterplan of Keyzer Söse.
The final scene, in which the agent interviewing Kevin Spacey manages to raise some of the obscurantist veil covering the whole real story is memorable and marvelous - and I will not say anymore here, not to spoil the movie for others.
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