Movie Review: The Usual Suspects

This is going to be brief cuz I don't want to give anything away. Let's just say it's my favorite boy movie. The story line is great, the acting is great, and Benicio DelTorro's accent is great. Of course, it's a boy movie, so the language is horrendous and there's lots of violence, but still.

I've seen it a few times before, but this time I decided to watch it after reading 'The Unusual Suspect,' just to see the transformation in Stephen Baldwin. It's crazy to think that the guy who played Michael McManus, the toughest of the 5 suspects, is now a Christian. From his first line in the movie you think, 'nope - there's no way he'd make this movie now.' It's just interesting to watch with that in mind. (Although he did say in his book that that guy will show up again if any guy messes with one of his daughters. :) Near the beginning of the movie, McManus makes fun of Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) for trying to go straight, 'Dean Keaton. Gone the high road. What is the world coming to?' It just made me smile, seeing as Stephen Baldwin is the one of the lot who's become a Christian.

Anyway - that's not what the movie is about. Those are just random sidenotes. A summary on imdb says: Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressurised into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects on a hijacked truck...[I'll stop the reviewer guy there, and it for him by saying that it's a very intriguing story.]

So that's my review. It's a great movie. I highly recommend it.