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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Released By: MGM Home Entertainment   Rating: R   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: MGM Home Entertainment
Genre: Mystery-Suspense
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bryan Singer
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Chazz Palminteri, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak
Published ID: 5869
UPC: 780063022729, 027616780126, 027616874818, 027616062598, 027616063335,
Plot: Near the end of The Usual Suspects, Kevin Spacey, in his Oscar-winning performance as crippled con man Roger Verbal Kint, says, The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. This may be the key line in this story; the farther along the movie goes, the more one realizes that not everything is quite what it seems, and what began as a conventional whodunit turns into something quite different. A massive explosion rips through a ship in a San Pedro, CA, harbor, leaving 27 men dead, the lone survivor horribly burned, and 91 million dollars' worth of cocaine, believed to be on board, mysteriously missing. Police detective Dave Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) soon brings in the only witness and key suspect, Verbal Kint. Kint's nickname stems from his inability to keep his mouth shut, and he recounts the events that led to the disaster. Five days earlier, a truckload of gun parts was hijacked in Queens, NY, and five men were brought in as suspects: Kint, hot-headed hipster thief McManus (Stephen Baldwin), ill-tempered thug Hockney (Kevin Pollak), flashy wise guy Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), and Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), a cop gone bad now trying to go straight in the restaurant business. While in stir, someone suggests that they should pull a job together, and Kint hatches a plan for a simple and lucrative jewel heist. Despite Keaton's misgivings, the five men pull off the robbery without a hitch and fly to Los Angeles to fence the loot. Their customer asks if they'd be interested in pulling a quick job while out West; the men agree, but the robbery goes horribly wrong and they soon find themselves visited by Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite), who represents a criminal mastermind named Keyser Soze. Soze's violent reputation is so infamous that he's said to have responded to a threat to murder his family by killing them himself, just to prove that he feared no one. When Kobayashi passes along a heist proposed by Soze that sounds like suicide, the men feel that they have little choice but to agree. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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MUST SEEE!!!!
Added 11/1/2009
Who is Keyser Soze? Watch this movie to find out!!!

Highly recommend this movie!!!
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
The Usual Suspects
Added 10/21/2009
Product was in perfect condition, the product was the original movie version. The movie itself was a whodunit with a very surprise ending that you don't see coming until the end.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Good movie; lousy Blu-Ray
Added 9/26/2009
The movie, of course, is great. The video quality is not so awesome for a Blu-Ray disc, though -- it's 10-15mbps MPEG-2.
1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Beautiful but disappointing
Added 8/26/2009
The film itself is worthy of a very strong five-star rating, but since this Blu-Ray offers nothing beyond the film itself, my rating reflects my disappointment.

While it's fantastic to have one of my favorite films of all time in high definition at last, the extras here are non-existent. Not only did they not do anything special for the Blu-Ray, they didn't even port over the extras from the MGM Special Edition DVD that came out a few years ago, and there's some excellent stuff on that DVD.

Shame on Fox/MGM for this inexcusably-lacking release.
5 out of 5 people found this helpful.
"The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled Was Making The Whole World Believe He Didn't Exist." You WILL Believe.
Added 8/22/2009
What can I say about this suspense thriller that hasn't been said before? The twists and turns abound until the final minutes of the movie. "And just like that, he's gone." Excellent, tour-de-force performances from everyone. SPOILER WARNING!!! Pay attention to Verbal (Kevin Spacey) in the scene where Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) is yelling at him. SPOILER OVER!!! My only gripe is that Christopher McQuarrie didn't appear in any of the featurettes located on the flip side of the disc (though he briefly appears in the introduction to one of the featurettes). I highly recommend this movie. You'll be surprised. The movie is also very well-written by Christopher McQuarrie and expertly directed by Bryan Singer (both of them would reunite to, respectively, co-write [with Nathan Alexander] and direct "Valkyrie"; please see my review on that equally excellent movie). This movie should have been rated PG-13 for violence and some language.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
MUST SEEE!!!!
Added 11/1/2009
Who is Keyser Soze? Watch this movie to find out!!!

Highly recommend this movie!!!
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
The Usual Suspects
Added 10/21/2009
Product was in perfect condition, the product was the original movie version. The movie itself was a whodunit with a very surprise ending that you don't see coming until the end.
0 out of 2 people found this helpful.
Good movie; lousy Blu-Ray
Added 9/26/2009
The movie, of course, is great. The video quality is not so awesome for a Blu-Ray disc, though -- it's 10-15mbps MPEG-2.
1 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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