Nobody Saw This Coming: The ending of this movie surprised everyone in the 90s

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Written by 1996 Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie (The Last Four: Impossible) and directed by Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects is one of the 15 best films of the 90s, according to AlloCiné viewers. 10 detective movies you should see in your lifetime, according to our editorial team.

Hence, the true necessity of a genre in which we observe the interrogation of a man’s verbal kinship. This disheveled and mean little crook is questioned after surviving a gruesome massacre on a freighter in Port San Pedro, California. According to another witness, the main suspect in this massacre is the powerful and bloodthirsty Kaiser Söze, a legendary criminal whose name is enough to color the worst terror, whose true identity remains unknown and whose existence is sometimes questioned.

Played by Kevin Spacey (whose performance earned the feature a second statuette), Kinty recounts everything he’s seen and heard since he was arrested with four other thugs in New York City six weeks earlier after stealing a gun. But which of these five usual suspects actually matches up to Machiavelli’s Kaiser Sauze?

Beyond the gallery of colorful characters, the precise writing and the now-legendary villain, it is above all its breathtaking conclusion and its extraordinary final twist that really delivers The usual suspects in the history of cinema.

If you haven’t seen this movie yet, we recommend that you do so before reading this article.

“The most dangerous thing the devil ever used was to make everyone believe he didn’t exist.

It is with this famous line that the Usual Suspects as well as Verbal Kinty’s testimony ends. After recounting the encounter with the four other suspects, their indirect cooperation with Keyser Soze (whose lawyer Kobayashi they apparently only met), and the horrific attack on the cargo ship, Kint is able to leave the police station, cleared of all suspicion.

According to the information he was recently brought, the agent in charge of the case is now convinced that the culprit is Dean Keaton, one of the suspects, played by Gabriel Byrne. He is no longer in doubt. But his reassurance is short-lived.

Indeed, shortly after Kinty’s departure, as he allows his gaze to drift to the notice board in his office and the note written on the bottom of his coffee mug, the inspector observes that his interlocutor is going to make up most of the names in his story. , and in particular the famous “Kobayashi”.

While he desperately tries to catch up with Kint, whose sketch is being printed on the police station’s fax machines, the little lame thug is now walking up and down the street. He now steps forward without limping, with a firm and clear step: Keizer Soze.

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