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The Usual Suspects

  • 1995
  • R
  • 1h 46m
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8.5/10
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Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, and Kevin Pollak in The Usual Suspects (1995)
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The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

  • Director
    • Bryan Singer
  • Writer
    • Christopher McQuarrie
  • Stars
    • Kevin Spacey
    • Gabriel Byrne
    • Chazz Palminteri
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.5/10
    1.1M
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    502
    63
    • Director
      • Bryan Singer
    • Writer
      • Christopher McQuarrie
    • Stars
      • Kevin Spacey
      • Gabriel Byrne
      • Chazz Palminteri
    • 1.5KUser reviews
    • 151Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #42
    • Won 2 Oscars
      • 37 wins & 17 nominations total

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    Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey
    • Verbal
    Gabriel Byrne
    Gabriel Byrne
    • Keaton
    Chazz Palminteri
    Chazz Palminteri
    • Dave Kujan
    Stephen Baldwin
    Stephen Baldwin
    • McManus
    Benicio Del Toro
    Benicio Del Toro
    • Fenster
    Kevin Pollak
    Kevin Pollak
    • Hockney
    Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite
    • Kobayashi
    Suzy Amis
    Suzy Amis
    • Edie Finneran
    Giancarlo Esposito
    Giancarlo Esposito
    • Jack Baer
    Dan Hedaya
    Dan Hedaya
    • Jeff Rabin
    Paul Bartel
    Paul Bartel
    • Smuggler
    Carl Bressler
    Carl Bressler
    • Saul Berg
    Phillipe Simon
    • Fortier
    Jack Shearer
    Jack Shearer
    • Renault
    Christine Estabrook
    Christine Estabrook
    • Dr. Plummer
    Clark Gregg
    Clark Gregg
    • Dr. Walters
    Morgan Hunter
    • Arkosh Kovash
    Ken Daly
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      • Bryan Singer
    • Writer
      • Christopher McQuarrie
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      When Redfoot flicks his cigarette into the face of McManus, it was originally intended to hit his chest, so McManus' reaction is actually Stephen Baldwin's real unscripted reaction, which Bryan Singer decided to keep in the movie.
    • Goofs
      During Verbal's interrogation, his coffee mug is empty when he takes the first sip. In the next scene, it is fine.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Verbal: After that my guess is that you will never hear from him again. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. And like that... he is gone.

    • Crazy credits
      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."
    • Alternate versions
      The Australian television version left the line-up scene unedited for language. However, all other scenes with strong language, such as McManus's call for payback at the discovery of Finster's body, were shortened or removed.
    • Connections
      Edited into Keyser Söze: Lie or Legend? (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Le sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
      Performed by Jon Kull

      Music by Claude Debussy

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    Better than the sum of its parts
    The Usual Suspects is two movies in one. Enjoyable the first time you watch it, even more enjoyable the second time round. The first viewing asks questions that are answered in an `I could kick myself' moment in the final few minutes, and the second viewing is interesting because when you know the answers, the film becomes that much clearer. It requires a certain amount of commitment, though. Be warned, if you stop concentrating for a moment then the remaining running time of the movie will be spent trying to figure out how what you missed has lead to what you are now watching.

    It concerns the story of five felons brought in by the police for a line-up and how those same felons reluctantly end up working for the mysterious and ghost-like Keyser Soze: a legend among the criminal fraternity, a man who no-one has seen and lived, a man so dangerous that he is thought to be the devil himself.you get the idea. The plot is rather intricate so I shan't bother to explain it here but it does rather make me think that Christopher McQuarrie, the writer, kept going to the office in the morning with yet another complexity to add that he thought up the night before. That's not to say it doesn't work, far from it, but it does leave you reeling from the sheer amount of information and names thrown at you from the offset.

    Gabriel Byrne is good, but not flawless, as the tortured Dean Keaton who is torn between his career as a criminal and his forlorn attempt at trying to go straight, but his relationship with uptown lawyer Edie Finneran (Suzy Amis) is badly explored and I never felt it gave motive enough for his actions throughout the movie. Kevin Spacey is wonderful as the crippled Roger 'Verbal' Kint and is effective with the results both cunning and tragic. The real star of the movie, however, is a strangely accented Pete Postlethwaite as Kobayashi, supposedly Keyser Soze's right-hand man. He effortlessly plays a character of terrible coolness and poker-faced efficiency leading the dance that the rest of the characters must follow.

    Director Bryan Singer has done well to bring such a momentous and involved screenplay to life and any gripes I may have cannot detract from the fact that the film, as a whole, is much better than the sum of its parts.
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    • Feb 16, 2003

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • August 16, 1995 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Germany
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • English
      • Hungarian
      • Spanish
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Nghi Phạm Vô Hình
    • Filming locations
      • San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
      • Spelling Films International
      • Blue Parrot
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $6,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $23,341,568
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $645,363
      • Aug 20, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,341,568
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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