*As always .. SPOILERS in reviews.*

 

The Usual Suspects
by Sarah

The 'Usual Suspects' is a cracker of a film and Spacey's performance is absolutely electrifying. The first time I saw the film I thought the end was positively breath taking - a genuine classic. If you haven't seen this film then switch off your phone, kick the cat out, sit down and prepare to be blown away!

January 20, 2004

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The Usual Suspects
by McCormick

kevin spacey as 'verbal'-the ulimate best performance i have ever seen. i was blown away! simply amazing!

September 6, 2003

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The Usual Suspects
by Sonia

The Usual Suspects was an awful movie with no concept of what was going on.  The characters were a odd, and why did they hang out with each other in the first place?  Gabriel Byrne's character was the only cool one, Spacey looked and sounded like a deranged Peter Lorre (!), Baldwin looked a out of place surfer boy, and Del Toro looked like a transvestite Puerto Rican with those thin eye brows and lispy accent.  Thumbs way down on this overblown hyped movie!!!!

September 4, 2003

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The Usual Suspects
by Jan

The Usual Suspects did not make any sense. All this movie did was explode some crummy actor's egos (with the exception of Spacey)  The Suspects screenwriter, Christopher McQuarrie used a famous quote from a REAL GOOD MOVIE, "Casablanca" when Claude Rains announced "Round up the usual suspects".

August 4, 2003

(You'd almost think Sonia and Jan were the same person.)

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The Usual Suspects
by Bruner

This is such a good movie and if you have never seen it I recommend you go out and rent it right now. It's soooooooo good!

June 15, 2003

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The Usual Suspects 
by Janine

I just saw  "Sexy Beast", and couldn't help but think, if there weren't a Verbal Kint, perhaps Ben Kingsley wouldn't have been considered to play the part of Don in this film, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.  You see, Don is quite unassuming in his dress and manner  (until he starts acting quite beastly when he doesn't get his way), and I thought,  Hey, that reminds me of Verbal!  Just another skinny fella sitting quietly in his bland clothing--but ready to ignite at any moment.

Verbal Kint.  Kevin Spacey's part in  "The Usual Suspects".  More is going on than the desperate cocaine heist our five suspects are goaded into by Pete Postlethwaite's dignified and deadly Kobayashi.  More is going on than Gabriel Byrne's resigned reentry into the world of crime.  Unfortunately, today, the twists and turns of this brainy film may have already been spoiled for you.  After all, this film is about 7 years old.

But watch it anyway, twice a year at least, if you enjoy Kevin Spacey's work.  Watch him closely when he is being lashed with threats to 'fess up.  Chazz Palminteri, as the cop determined to tie loose ends, is earnest and almost volcanic in his need of the straight story. In one scene, Dave the cop speculates that Verbal was simply being used.  In a tight close-up of his profile, Spacey's face twists from a smirk to deadpan just before he knows his expression might be caught.  Then, with doe eyes, he slips back into his role of Verbal the vulnerable.

He isn't just reliving the story of a heist gone terribly wrong.  He's enjoying himself.  So are we.  That's cool. --Janine, March 17, 2002    

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The Usual Suspects
by Andrea 

For me it's all about THE USUAL SUSPECTS, oh yeah baby.  I mean, nothing else even comes CLOSE.  Kevin SO deserved that Oscar, if you ask me.  In the movie he plays a club-footed con man named "Verbal" Kint.  Verbal appears to be stupid, but in the end he tricks a U.S. Customs Agent and pulls the ultimate scam.  (As if you didn't know) :) And, if you ask me, Kevie is the real Keyser Soze. :))

 

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