Usual Suspects, The
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| Taglines: | 1: Five Criminals . One Line Up . No Coincidence 2: Five Suspects. Fifty Plot Twists. One Keyser Soze. 3: I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of him. 4: In a world where nothing is what it seems you’ve got to look beyond… 5: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist 6: The truth is always in the last place you look. |
| Plot Summary: | After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot. |
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