The movie starts out with a horrific gun battle that begins when five criminals meet at a seemingly random police lineup.
20 April 1965, Long Beach, California, USA
7 February 1946, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK
19 February 1967, San Germán, Puerto Rico
30 October 1957, San Francisco, California, USA
2 April 1962, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
20 May 1958, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1961, New York City, New York, USA
21 October 1947
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
12 May 1966, Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA
29 December 1957, Taranto, Puglia, Italy
12 April 1922, Newark, New Jersey, USA
13 September 1952, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
26 July 1959, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
24 August 1945, Córdoba, Argentina
1968, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
12 November 1948
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
June 18, 2013
Singer, like Tarantino, is less into mining new film themes than in re-inventing old ones. And the way he does so shows full well that there is still a bit of life in the old mob movie yet.
June 18, 2013
In a season of fat blockbusters, a picture as brainy, bitter, and compact as this one comes as a shock and a treat.
June 18, 2013
It's a nerve-shredding suspense movie about corruption, a bravura actor's show full of deliciously twisted cops and robbers, and a complex riddle packed with unexpected turns.
June 18, 2013
An imaginative, entertaining crime mystery with plenty of nerve and vigor.
January 18, 2013
For many true movie fiends, noir is the key American movie type, and the most fun when it's done right. The Usual Suspects is done right.
June 18, 2013
Give director Bryan Singer credit for providing a plot that is not resolved by an exchange of gunfire, but don't expect the movie's glib punchline to stay with you for very long.
June 18, 2013
Metaphysical mumbo-jumbo? Of course -- but the thrill of The Usual Suspects is that, after years of movie demythologising, it re-mythologises the crime movie.
June 18, 2013
It's a film that demands to be watched again and again -- this is good old-fashioned pulp fiction told in the slickest 1990s style.
June 18, 2013
It stands up brilliantly to repeat viewing, to the extent that you may never fully solve the riddle. But don't let that put you off; it's the ultimate whodunit.
June 18, 2013
The most attuned devotee of crime mystery will be hard-pressed to guess the outcome of this stylish thriller. It is riddled with machine-gun dialogue and kinky implications at every turn.
June 18, 2013
If the pleasures of The Usual Suspects are the more superficial ones of ingenuity and style, those are abundantly available. The twists and turns of the plot are an awful lot of fun, while the ending is genuinely satisfying and surprising.
March 28, 2011
I didn't believe this story for a minute, even in movie terms -- though it's less offensive than a piece of junk like Apt Pupil, Singer's subsequent feature.
