Beyond suspicion - How to steal an identity

When John Nolan walks into the liquor store to buy a bottle of wine he becomes the victim of a store robbery but lucky him he doesnt get hurt. Instead of him one of the salesguys gets shot and John tries to help him because he assumes it was his fault. He doesnt know that Auggie Rose came outta jail lately, basically he doesnt know anything than that he feels guilty for the man because he sent him to get a new bottle just because he didnt like the scratch on it. Well, Auggie dies and John gets possesed by the idea of finding family or friends of him to organize a funeral he wouldnt get otherwise.

Once he searches he soon finds himself wanting to find out more about the dead man and he reads letters, becomes friends with his neighbours and moves into his old flat, he even cares about his parrot. Sounds strange? The story is not just a bit absurd but also catchy, you will love it for sure.

I'd also consider this not so well known movie one of Jeff Goldblum's (John Nolan) best roles ever, right next to "The fly" and also it is a remarkeable piece of movie history in my oppinion! You may think that's a bit too much honour for this movie but believe me, it is one of the really great ones!

The Usual Suspects: The guy who looks like Al Pacino

Well this goes back to 1997, my best friend came very excited, because he watched this movie "the usual suspects", and guess what, he told me about the whole plot (and i will never forgive him), and at that time, the usual suspects was "the movie", and for good reasons, everybody who saw it, couldn't believe a story could be so clever, and that the suspense could be held such a long time without failing, and it was a "popular" movie, meaning it was not nerdy.

My friend referred to the star of the movie as "the guy who looks like Al Pacino", well it is arguable that Mr Byrne looks like him, and depends on the haircut, but the Al Pacino of that time was the detective from "heat", and sure Byrne looked like him a bit, we didn't know byrne at the time, and what an introduction ! cold yet touching, calculating yet human, and you keep on suspecting him, and unsuspecting him, until the movie's famous ending, which is now part of the history of cinema

The Movie is about a man called Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), being investigated by the customs's special agent David Kugan (Chazz Palminteri), and telling him the story of a deal which went wrong, including of pier workers and a ship's crew whome got killed, and the whole ship being blown, Verbal inisists that it is the work of criminal mastermind Kayser Soze, Kugan not believing him, and the whole movie is in flashback mode illustrating what Verbal is telling Kugan about Soze, and trying to find out about his identity/existence amongst a cast of five suspects which come from diffrent ways of life (crime), including Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) who is a serious contender.

Now the star in the movie is it's killer script (academy award winner), but all the cast is terrefic, especiall Byrne, Spacey, and Palmenteri, and it it to say that it has became legendary ever since, the plot is so thick with many very strong subplots that you can't believe it, and Byrne is great in it.

Thirteen years later, the "man who looks like Al Pacino" is still great, and the movie is still enjoyable, and it was the movie which introduced me to Mr Byrne, and for that alone it is worth it !

Jebbiness: 4/5
Byrne's Performance 4/5.