Movie: The Usual Suspects
Basic Plot: Verbal Kent tells the cops a story about a heist that turns out to be pretty much total bullshit and he (spoiler alert) was the guy they are looking for the whole time.
I'm Okay With: The fact that because everything Verbal Kent was a fabrication, we don't actually know if any his story was true. The fact that Keyser Soze has the kind of clout to get that whole crew into a lineup at the beginning of the movie for no real reason. The fact that Keaton or any of the others would have trusted Verbal Kent when they most likely had never seen or heard of him before the police line-up. The fact that I haven't seen this movie in awhile, so let's just skip to the part I'm not okay with.
I'm Not Okay With: The fact that the whole reason Keyser Soze came out of hiding and hatched this crazy plan was to kill a guy who knew what he looked like only to show his face to the entire police department. That makes no damn sense. By the end of the movie, we know that Verbal Kent is Keyser Soze and we know that he met up with Dean Keaton and the other lowlifes so that he could have them pull a heist that resulted in the death of some foreign guy who was killed in order to hide his identity. And we know that the cops figure out who Verbal Kent really is at the very end. Soze's whole scheme resulted in the death of one guy who knew what he looked like and that guy really was in no state to do anything to him. And that same scheme also resulted in the authorities not only finding out about the legend of Keyser Soze, but also finding out what he looks like and they have the resources to actually do something about it. In other words, Soze is actually in way worse shape then when he began. I am not okay with that.
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| "Yup, this guy is definitely more screwed now than he thinks." |
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