[quote name='hiccupleftovers']*********SPOILER WARNING: Possible Spoilers: Read At Your Own Risk If You Haven't Seen Usual Suspects: May Give Away some of it**********************************
The Usual Suspects - This was one of the movies that I haven't had the chance of viewing,
but that I had always wanted to. Now I enjoyed the movie from the get-go, but I felt
it was slightly overdone in some respects. As soon as the mystery
started when they were all going into interogation room (I'm not sure if
this is its name, but the room where they all line-up to each other) did
my mind start racing that there was someone orchestrating all of the
events. Without any previous knowledge of the film, I kept having this
feeling like there was going to be some turn-around or plot twist so I
started to take it all in and watch very carefully. As soon as they
mentioned the sven-gallian (spelling) figure of Keysor Soze, did my mind
start to believe that it was one of the "Usual Suspects". I had had it
narrowed to the gimp/Verbal Kint (played by Spacey) or Keaton (played by
Pollack I believe). I seem to not be to far from the mark. It was
intriguing to see how Singer created the myth of Keysor Soze and
continually twisted it making you second guess yourself as to who it was
this mastermind in the film. Spacey's performance in the film was one
of the best I've seen for him and in general. It beat his performance
in Se7en, which I didn't think anything of his would beat (though
American Beauty comes close) The entire ensemble cast was excellent truly.
8.8/10[/QUOTE]
Continuing discussion of above movie so
spoilers ahead.
All I knew about the movie was that there was a twist at the end, as soon as I saw kevin spacey limping around, and how much the camera was focusing on it, beating the audience over the head with this fact so you could not miss it, I knew immediately it was him. Ironically, when the first twist was that it was gabriel byrne who was Keyser Soze it completely blew my mind and I thought "boy I didn't see that one coming!" Then they changed it so it was Kevin Spacey, so I was like "oh...so I was right, how dissapointing." It's gotten to the point with all these "twist endings" and multiple personality movies you can pretty much discren from the trailers and TV spots what the twist ending is. I saw previews for Hide & Seek with Robert Di Nero, I thought I had figured out the twist, and had no interest in watching it, so I just went to the IMDB boards, and sure enough, I was right *yawn*.
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The last movie to truly surprise me with a the twist is
Frailty, excellent little flick to check out sometime.