The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects

Five criminals. One line up. No coincidence.

Rating

3.5 (3)

Release Date

7/19/1995

Runtime

106 mins

Overview

The lone survivor of an explosive heist gone wrong recounts for interrogators the events that began with five disparate criminals assembled for a police lineup - with alleged criminal mastermind Keyser Soze at the center of it all.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$6,000,000

Revenue

$23,300,000

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How It Feels

Read from this film's synopsis, keywords and credits, and used to work out what it sits beside.

A masterfully constructed puzzle box where nothing is quite what it seems, the interrogation room becomes a battleground of wits, stories, and hidden identities. By the end, the ground shifts beneath you in a way that makes you want to immediately rewatch it.

Mood

TenseParanoidUnsettling

Themes

CrimeCorruptionObsessionPower

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Brisk

Look

HandheldHigh-contrast

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violence

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

for a movie titled "the usual suspects"...i don't know any of these people.

singers direction is fine but its nothing more then an empty thriller that disguises itself as something bigger by having a lame twist that you can see from a mile away. to be fair the twist itself is fine, its just that spacey's performance makes it very obvious.

(watch my 79 min film https://boxd.it/10y7I )

brett

This small-budget ($6 million!) suspense/thriller surpassed all expectations back in 1995 due to not only its fantastic cast but incredible story. Along with the somewhat improvised police line-up scene (it's not a spoiler as it's on the film poster!), the whodunit reveal at the end blew audiences out of their seats, and rightfully so. We will not spoil the film for you, so just go see it for yourself.

(<A HREF="https://boxd.it/4Swplb">Originally published on LG OLED's Letterboxd</A>)

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