The Usual Suspects

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Taglines: The truth is always in the last place you look.

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.

The events of the world famous movie unfold in several time stages.Firstly, the actions taking place in the present are shown. A small fraudster named Chatterbox has been detained by the FBI and answers questions from Special Agent Kujan, who is investigating a very strange and unusual case involving an explosion on a ship. As a result of a huge and powerful explosion, twenty-seven people died, and the two survivors are in serious condition. It is not clear why the crime was committed, but it is known that there were drugs on the ship valued at $ 90 million. When conducting an investigation, the agent gradually realizes how confusing and complicated the matter is.

Secondly, a story is shown that happened to several strangers: Dean Keaton, who used to be a policeman but became a criminal, spent several years behind bars and returned to a normal life, charming and charismatic con man Michael McManus and his faithful partner Fred Fenster, Todd Hockney, a lawyer named Kobayashi and a petty crook named Chatterbox. All these people collide at the crime scene, and soon they receive an offer from a mafia boss named Keyser Soze. He offers the guys to do a dangerous and risky business that will help them get rich and not know the need until the end of days.

Creators: Christopher McQuarrie
Director: Bryan Singer
Star Cast: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Suzy Amis
Producer (s): Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Music: John Ottman
Production House: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Spelling Films International, Blue Parrot
Original network / Official Sites: Gramercy Pictures, Spelling Films International
Release Year: 16 August 1995 (USA)
Runtime: 106 min
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Language: English, Hungarian, Spanish, French
Subtitles: English, Bengali

Hardened criminal Dean Keaton lies badly wounded on a ship docked in San Pedro Bay. He is confronted by a mysterious figure whom he calls “Keyser”, who shoots him dead and sets fire to the ship. The next day, the police recover twenty-seven bodies and only two survivors: Arkosh Kovash (Ákos Kovács), a Hungarian mobster hospitalized with severe burns, and Roger “Verbal” Kint, a con artist with cerebral palsy. U.S. Customs agent Dave Kujan flies from New York City to interrogate Verbal. The events that led Keaton, Michael McManus, Fred Fenster, Todd Hockney, and Verbal onto the ship are then described by Verbal via flashback.

Six weeks earlier in New York, Verbal and the other four criminals were arrested as suspects in a truck-hijacking, only to be released thanks to Edie Finneran, Keaton’s lawyer and girlfriend. They then decided to pull a heist to get revenge on the NYPD. Led by Keaton, they robbed a jewel smuggler being escorted by corrupt cops, netting millions in emeralds and getting over fifty cops arrested. They then went to California to fence the jewels through a man named Redfoot, who connects them with another jewel heist. The heist goes badly, and the men learn that the job was arranged by a lawyer named Kobayashi. They meet Kobayashi, who says he arranged for their arrests in New York and that his employer, Keyser Söze—a mysterious Turkish crime lord whom each of the men have unwittingly stolen from—has ordered them to raid a ship manned by Argentinian drug dealers and destroy $91 million worth of cocaine being sold on board. Their reward will be the cash brought for the exchange, and being freed from Söze’s influence.

During Kujan’s interrogation, it is learned that there was no cocaine on the ship and that Söze was seen on board. Verbal then tells Kujan a legend about Söze: that he was a small-time drug runner who murdered his own family when they were being held hostage by Hungarian mobsters, and then massacred the mobsters and their families before disappearing, doing business only through underlings who did not know who they were working for. Söze thus became a fearsome urban myth, “a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night”.

Concluding his story, Verbal reveals Fenster was killed trying to flee; the men then threatened Kobayashi, only to accept the assignment when he threatened their loved ones. The men attack the ship during the night, killing several Argentinian and Hungarian gangsters before discovering there is no cocaine. Hockney, a prisoner in one of the cabins, McManus, and then Keaton are killed by an unseen assailant, who sets fire to the ship as Verbal looks on from a hiding place on the dock.

Kujan deduces that Keaton must be Söze, as the prisoner killed on the ship was Arturo Marquez, a smuggler who escaped prosecution by claiming he could identify Söze. Marquez was being represented by Edie Finneran, who has also been recently murdered. Kujan claims that the Argentinians took Marquez to sell him to Söze’s Hungarian rivals. Keaton then used the assault so that he could kill Marquez personally and fake his own death. Verbal finally confesses that Keaton had been behind everything, but refuses to testify in court. Verbal’s bail is posted and he is released.

Moments later, Kujan realizes that Verbal fabricated his entire story by piecing together details from items posted on a crowded bulletin board in the office. Kujan also realizes that the name “Kobayashi” came from the brand on the bottom of the coffee mug he had been drinking from. Meanwhile, Verbal walks outside, gradually losing his limp and flexing his supposedly disabled hand. As Kujan pursues Verbal, a fax arrives from the hospital where Kovash has finally provided a facial composite of Söze, which resembles Verbal. Kujan misses Verbal (Söze) by moments as the latter disappears into a car driven by “Kobayashi”.

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