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), be
ing 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.
3 comments:
G1 You really do live in the past, huh? 1997 -> 2008 = 13 years later? ;)
hi couz'
i was not referring to the time i saw the movie (i seen it late) but the actual movie release date was 1995 :)
yaya but u wrote 1997 in the rev -> 13 years later (now?) = 2000 ^^
luv ya too and stuff XD
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