The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]

The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]
by Bryan Singer

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Blu-ray Review: TRIPE WINS OSCAR! READ ALL ABOUT IT:
Summary: 2 Stars

Yeah right...

Why would anyone be afraid of a guy who killed his own family? Every-time his enemies turn up he kills someone he loves?! Who's gonna work for a moron like that!? The only thing to fear is that you might be related to him!...

All the rest is talk-talk, bang-bang, and not even a kiss-kiss. Light and witless fare at best.

In fact, what we have here is a series of gratuitous plot-twists and contrivances, abunch of Actors that are all pretending to be tough guys, and a writer and director who sold a bill of goods on a trend started by two movies that Hollywood never wanted to make: Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Yeah, you can hear the pitch now: "it's more Reservoir Dogs than Reservoir Dogs is! More twists and turns than Pulp Fiction!"

OSCAR TIME!

Except that RD and PF weren't about twists and turns, or tough guys, or Kaiser Snoozy (oh wait, wasn't he in Snow White?). "The Usual Suspects" makes the mistake most Hollywood studio flicks do: they confuse the elements of a successful movie with the movie itself. You might as well say Citizen Kane was about the newspaper business, or 2001 was about spaceships, or The Fountainhead was about architecture, or King Of Kings was about carpentry! Worse, once you get the formulae down it becomes just too ...predictable: here we go, another thrilling plot twist! HEY, SOME OF THESE MAKE MONEY, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY DON'T [LACK CLASS] DOING IT.

Really, did anyone NOT see that last "twist" coming?...

OSAR TIME!

They loved it! How could they not? This is the same academy that ignored Kubrick and booed Orson Welles. But in Hollywood there's a little bit of Kaiser Soze in everyone.

Oh well. You remember that guy from "Seven" -- John Doe? Now that was a man to be feared.

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