A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze?
Written by Soumitra
In the "making of" documentary, both Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Pollak acknowledge that their long-standing feud with each other began on the set of this film. Though neither actor directly states what caused their animosity towards each other, Pollak does mention that Baldwin, in an attempt to stay in character as MacManus, he would go around acting tough and sometimes bully the other actors. Baldwin does admit that he was bullying towards Pollak on film (their numerous "stand off" confrontations with each other on screen).
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Keaton is sitting on the bench in the cell after the line up telling McManus to shut up, his shirt collar alternates between being under his jacket, and outside his jacket between shots.
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The editor, John Ottman, edited the movie on film. He felt that all the
editing done electronically at the time was horrible because all the good
editors were still working on film (which is much more difficult). Because
of this he thought about putting "Edited on a piece of s*** Steenbeck" at
the end of the credits, but instead settled for the more subtle line
"Edited on film." Tim Robbins was directing 'Dead Man Walking' at the time
and heard about John's idea, which sparked that film's credit ending of
"This film was edited on old machines."
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