Bryan Singer's outstanding thriller boasts gripping performances and a plot that is both bewildering and utterly, brilliantly logical.
Virtually the entire story is told in flashback in the account of Verbal (Spacey), a pathetic villain and apparently the only survivor of a bloody dockyard gun-battle. Interrogated by Dave Kujan (Palminteri), an irascible macho cop, Verbal spills the beans on the activities of himself and his fellow gangsters, brought together several weeks previously in an identity parade. The whole convoluted affair involving stolen emeralds, drugs, money, and much double-crossing seems to hinge on the involvement of a mysterious super-villain by the name of Keyser Soze.
With all its narrative complexities, its elegant twists, the knock-out dialogue and a superb ensemble cast - Spacey, Palminteri, Baldwin, Byrne and Postlethwaite are all outstanding, Del Toro just weird - this is a film that immediately makes you question what you have just seen and whether it can really have been as good as you think. It is that good, and for a movie that relies on a big twist, it works surprisingly well on repeated viewings.
Keywords:
Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Movie, Film, Movies, Films
Film
(1995) (USA / Germany) 
(5 Star)
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