It's beyond unreliable---you can safely assume that Verbal completely fabricated everything, just adding a few verifiable crimes here and there to make it fit what the cops already know. It's funny how many people there are that really hate not knowing what actually happened.
17:15 The quote, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" predates the movie by well over a century in some form. However, it was made much more popular because of this movie.
@@TheAtkeyI think it was a Latin saying first, maybe French, but it goes way, way back. I remember hearing something similar in my Folklore and Mythology of Europe class. It may have been in of the Arthurian stories since we spent a lot of time on them.
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot Unless you are using some version of the Bible that has the verses in different places Leviticus 20:13 has nothing about the devil convincing the world he doesn't exist.
Each of the cast were under the impression they were Keyser Soze, and when the final edit was screened Gabriel Byrne was angry he wasn’t Soze after all.
Also, if you'll remember, Verbil met Keaton in jail, so he was willing to do some time just to build his backstory. That includes doing various petty crimes and scams over time to create his reputation and persona of Verbil. Even more elaborate than on the face of it.
That only goes so far. He has to assume that there will be some digging into his record to verify a few things. He'd definitely be printed before the DA even spoke to him. So Verbal has to have some previous record somewhere. So my guess is that Soze did some actual work as Verbal to lay that groundwork, or had Kobayashi do the documentation forgeries to do so. Remember: he tells Kujan that he told Keaton in holding that he got 6 months in county but "walked." What if somebody looked into that before he was released? Loose end.
She asked for recommendations of movies with plot twists. I'm tempted to suggest a movie with the most straight forward plot, just to watch her go bonkers trying to figure out what the non existent twist is. The greatest plot twist is that there is no plot twist!
I know about it, but the reviews were middling at the time. It's also one of those million '00s crime movies whose poster looks direct-to-video even though it isn't. Same problem with SHOOT 'EM UP: great movie, but if you weren't there or paying attention at the time, you'd likely never hear of it.
"Kobayashi"'s accent is probably meant to be Indian, but how he really speaks is unknowable. What we see in this film is what Verbal tells us, so how reliable it is is a matter of debate for the past 30 years! EDIT: One amazing thing on the rewatch, that scene where verbal is sitting in the office waiting for the cop to come in the first time round, your first view he looks bored, second and subsequent watches you see him studying the board. It's exactly the same footage, but you view it different each time!
One mistake I could find , why would verbal tell that he killed Saul ? That was very out of character. He could have said anything. But it seemed like he told the truth
@@BennyBlancoNL I have this theory that some of the flashbacks are from Verbal's POV and others are what actually happened. Or some mixture of the 2. Because Verbal killing Saul is something that would likely happen but Verbal likely wouldn't say that for immunity reasons. So the flashback must've showed us that because it actually happened rather than what Verbal is describing.
One of the greatest twists in Film History! That's why it won the Oscar for Best Original Screen Play! LOVE this movie, ever since I saw it in the Theater back in the 90's. Amazing Film!
In the directors cut, McMannus leashes up the dog and brings him out to the dock. The dog runs up to a beautiful collie, and they run away happily in love! Great reaction, thank you.
This one really caught a lot of attention when it came out. Now, these intricate twist endings have become somewhat common. But, oh man, when Usual Suspects hit it was pretty unique. I love this one, and the cast is impeccable
The Village, The Others, Vanilli Sky, Jacob's Ladder, Shutter Island, Before I Wake, The Mist, The Departed, Kpax, and Memento, are some movies you will love. If you enjoy foreign movies: I know you would enjoy: No Mercy" (2010), OldBoy (2003), and Re-cycle (2006).
This damn movie, I swear. If a character had burst through a door dressed as a duck, and yelled, "Peruvian FBI! Duck division!" I wouldn't have thought that strange. I would have nodded grimly and tried to work out his significance in the tangle of schemes going on.
Also the added detail of you nodding *grimly* sells the comment, I can totally picture it too. Very few movies manage to feel as over-the-top and contrived but still deadpan serious and gripping at the same time. It's a wonderfully struck balance that sucks you in from the onset.
Two Fun facts: 1 - The line-up scene was originally intended to be more serious but Benicio Del Toro (Fenster) kept passing gas in between takes setting off the other actors and even frustrating director Brian Singer. Lol 2 - Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) actually thought he was Keyser Soze in the film and was disappointed to learn that he wasn't when the film premiered in 1995.
2:59 I was once in a car accident that was absolutely terrifying, and I was 100% certain I was about to die. It was one of the calmest experiences of my entire life. I had no control over the situation. I was completely dependent on the actions of others to survive. I just let go and accepted the inevitable. Which didn't happen. But it was a strangely calm experience.
Same thing happened to me. Car accident, thought I was going to die, and I just remember calmly thinking 'Oh - so this is what it feels like.' If you're accepted that you're going to die, things can't literally get any worse, so it is strangely calming.
Watch the movie again and look/listen for all the clues the director uses to tell the audience that Verbal is Keyser Soze. I'll give you 3. 1. The very first scene when Keaton and Soze are speaking. The voice of Keyser Soze is actually Kevin Spacey's voice. He used a lower tone to disguise it. But, if you close your eyes, you can 100% tell. 2) After the scene where Edie tells Keaton she loves him, there's a cut to Verbal smoking a cigarette. Except he's holding the cigarette the way only Europeans do...underhanded. 3) There are a few flashes of Keyser Soze using his lighter. His gold lighter. When Verbal picks up his belongings from holding just before he walks out of the police station, the cop reading Verbal's inventory says "One cigarette lighter, gold". That's your last chance to figure it out before the big reveal.
Or they were spoiled. I got some hints and I still had trouble believing it. My parents, who didn't get fooled one second by what could be considered The Twist in Fight Club, were blown away by the moment.
I just happen to watch it a few days ago, catching up on the backlog of movies I don't have much interest in but have critical acclaim. For some reason it was obvious to me from the beginning but I wish I didn't know cuz it would have been more entertaining
Unfortunately, my wife did. I had watched it first and was gobsmacked at the ending. Watching a second time with my wife and she guessed half way through. I called her a witch, she said "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife." Don't know how she did it.
My mom had me watch it and she wanted to see if I could get it. I had my suspicion it was Verbal because he was the most unlikely as a character setup and the title but when I saw the scene where they catch Kobayashi in the elevator, as they walked out, I saw that Kobayashi was helping Verbal by leading him by his right arm. I told my mom, "Kobayashi is Verbal's right hand man, literally. That makes Verbal Keiser Sose." My mom waited until the end to show her amazement as she didn't want to spoil the twist. I thought maybe I had got it wrong as it got close to the end and maybe it was Keaton but it just still seemed too obvious for me based on the way the movie had gone to move away from Verbal.
An armed robbery with lots of weapons is definitely not a scam 😂 Favorite line... Verbal: He (Soze) becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop, and Keyser Soze will get you."
Ooh good one. Mine's: Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." Well, I believe in God, Agent Kujan, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze. Whatever your thoughts are about Kevin Spacey, he's an incredible actor. That delivery was *chef's kiss*.
@@josephamesdacey6442 That might be a lie. There's footage of that take in the outtake reel they compiled for the cast & crew after wrap where he clearly freaks out "JESUS CHRIST!" and walks into frame to see if Baldwin's alright.
@@Theomite Could be both - like maybe the 'flicking the cigarette at him' was the improv, but he'd just intended to hit him in the chest, or somewhere clothing was covering, so he was shocked it went in the face. Not that I actually know one way or the other. 😅
I saw this in the theaters twice. First time, maybe 10 other people in the only theater on it's opening weekend. A week later, it was at capacity, and i think half of us had already seen in it! Super cast and great plot!
At the start of the movie, they're all in the line-up because someone stole a truck of gun parts. At 15:50 Kobayashi reveals it was actually Hockney, when the others all stare at him he just shrugs!
The title of the film "The Usual Suspects" is a reference to a line from the film Casablanca, where a police officer gives an order to "round up the usual suspects" after a climactic moment in the movie.
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing almost everyone who’s seen this movie already to not give up the twist ending! Seriously, that almost never happens.
My favorite piece of trivia is that At the film festival premier Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) was angry at the director Bryan Singer because up until that night when he saw the final cut he believed HE was Keyser Soze, he was so angry he stormed off and then was telling at the director for almost an hour! In fact during filming the director made it a point to convince all of the main criminal actors that they were Keyser Soze.
28:15 Maybe, maybe not. Don’t forget, the flashback is narrated by Verbal. It’s very likely he made the entire movie up so that nothing of what you saw actually happened.
If you take it from the police point of view and accept what they know is parts truth, then his story of them hitting the police cruiser with crooked cops is real, the hit getting the drugs is real since there has to be record of finding dead bodies in the parking garage.. the whole line up to start with happened for sure, it is what happen between those incidents or the lead to them is the questionable part the way i see it.
The title is a reference to a line used in the 1942 movie Casablanca. And you picked up on the twist before the reveal! Well done! Yeah, this IS such a classic! Glad that you saw it!
You have to feel privileged to have seen this movie. It is hands down the greatest cinematic twist EVER. I've seen it a million times and the ending still gives me goosebumps 😁👍
Keyser Soze has kind of become a legend of its own, like the boogie man It is just crazy when u realize that the first time he said "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled..", he was talking about himself
I'll never forget leaving the cinema absolutely speechless for about 3 mins and the only thing that came out of my mouth after was "Holy s*** that was the best movie I've ever seen! Still in my top 5.
Its actually common to hold top ejecting guns at an angle so hot brass doesn't hit you. And holding guns at 90 degree angles has advantages usually to do with recoil.
6:58 Another person I didn't recognize in all the times I watched this movie is Clark Gregg (aka Agent Coulson) playing a doctor walking after Giancarlo.
One thing that always surprise me, is that when Kujan was telling the tale of the life of Keaton, how he become a cop, his crimes, his time in prison, he sit just along side Verbal in front of the board, and never realise that Verbal is lying to him or the fact that maybe Keaton wasn't the one killing the witnesses to his crime, he have a "guardian angel" that was saving him top use him in later date.
A line I consider key was cut in this reaction. Around the time of the line-up that is used for the cover of the video, the narrator tells us that this gave him a chance to act like he was notorious. We know he weaved together lies from the board, plus anything the police fed him as facts. The line suggests that he was not as infamous as a criminal, but great as a storyteller. When he gets into the car at the end, we might think of the name of the lawyer, but that was just the maker of the mug that the main character saw when he looked up at the coffee drinker very early on. We might realize we don’t know his name, but might still think of him as a lawyer, but he wouldn’t have to be that, either.
One story Keyser Soze made up that I knew was impossible was that they made coffee from beans right from the trees. Nope, you have to remove they berry part, dry, and roast the beans first.
Remember, almost everything that we see in flashback is from Verbal's story - and Verbal lied. So we don't really know very much of anything. If you haven't already done so, you might check out "L A Confidential' or "Lone Star".
The man who wrote this is christopher mcquarrie. He is probably best known for directing and writing the latest mission impossible movies. In my mind he is one of the creators screenwriters in Hollywood. Unfortunately he never seems to be able to make his own stuff. Everything he does is fixing other people’s scripts or doing franchises.
Check out the 1946 b&w movie "The Locket." Has an oddly similar dramatic climax, with a sound montage of many voices, as the main character is walking down the aisle at her own wedding. I wouldn't be surprised if the filmmakers who did "Suspects" saw and were partly inspired by "The Locket."
Brian Singer's first film who went on to make the X-Men. Allegedly someone (del Toro) farted during the line up scene which is why they all have the giggles. Great companion to this is LA Confidential, a 50s noir cop drama that introduced two Aussies Guy Pearce and a certain Russel Crowe to the world alongside Kevin Spacey, Danny de Vito and Kim Basinger. A top rated and very intelligent film that has just as many twists and turns and oozes with style.
LA Confidential is my favorite film. Almost everything Verbal says is true except the names and details about hus Verbal character. But they are the stories the other guys believed as well. Love this movie. The commentary track is fantastic.
Great reaction, finally you are reaction to one of my favourites movies of all time. There are some fun-facts about it like always. The line-up scene was improved with a fart. When asked by a fan on Twitter about whether there was truth to the fact the group of actors kept making each other laugh while shooting the line-up scene, McQuarrie elaborated that it was specifically one actor farting that caused this to happen. However, he expressed gratitude for the incident and explained how it helped improve both the scene and the script overall. It's pretty well-known by this point that the actor McQuarrie is referring to is Oscar winner del Toro, who Pollack previously revealed: "farted like 12 takes in a row." Lol
Keyser Söze was named after a lawyer. Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie once worked for a lawyer named Keyser Sume (pronounced sue-may), whom he told: “You’ve got a great name. You’re going to be the villain in a script some day.” When it came time to write The Usual Suspects, McQuarrie figured that, for legal reasons, he’d better not use the exact name, and so he replaced it with part of the Turkish expression “söze boğmak,” which means “talk too much” (literally, “drown in/with words”). Considering that the movie also has a character nicknamed, Verbal because he “talks too much,” Turkish audiences might not have been as surprised by the movie’s ending as other viewers were. Kevin Spacey asked to be in the movie before he even knew what it would be. The actor met Bryan Singer at a screening of the director's first feature, Public Access, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1993. Spacey liked the movie so much that he told Singer he wanted to be in whatever he made next. “I took that as an assignment,” Singer told Charlie Rose. “Because I worship this man as an actor.” Al pacino turned down the role of dave kujan to play a cop in a different movie. That would be Heat, which famously paired him onscreen with Robert De Niro for the first time. Pacino didn’t want to play a cop twice in the same year, so he opted for the more prestigious, Michael Mann-directed project. Fenster’s unique dialect was all benicio Del Toro’s idea. As Del Toro explained it on Inside the Actors Studio, his character’s only real purpose in the story was to die. So to liven things up, Del Toro tried delivering Fenster’s lines the way the audience hears them in the film-very quickly, and with a thick, indiscernible accent. Nobody on the set could understand him. Singer later recalled, “At first I thought it was a joke, but I didn’t want to offend him if it wasn’t a joke.” Keep up the good work.
Now that youve watched The Usual Suspects, now you should watch: The Sting (1973) Laura (1944) The Conversation (1974) The Last Seduction (1994) Enjoy.
The cop talking with the civilian at the end of the movie where Kujan just missed Verbal entering the car with his "lawyer" was Bryan Singer (the director) and Christopher McQuarrie (the screenwriter).
I've watched this film several times and near the end and I actually never picked up before that most of the story Verbal was telling was false but I still remember the surprise reveal that he was Soze all along, even before watching it.
As twist endings go, this is one of the best. The screen where Redfoot flicks the cigarette into McManus's face was an accident. The actor was supposed to flick the cigarette into Baldwin's chest, but it went high. They kept it in obviously. In the lineup scene, the reason everyone was laughing was that Benicio del Toro was farting in each take they did.
What everyone misses about this movie is that we are being played, too. The whole story is fake. We have zero idea what really happened. You can't rely on anything he says. The heists, the conflicts, the conversations, bull crap. It was the story we were supposed to hear to explain things the cops already knew, but it was made up. There are no loose ends which aren't explained. There are no explanations. It was all BS.
Some things must be true. There would be other evidence. But yes , that's the greatest twist , you dont really know what is true. (There would be proof from those heists)
@vkunia If you want an 80s movie with a lot of plot twists (that a lot of other reactors haven't done yet), let me suggest "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner. Not as good as The Usual Suspects, but still quite a thriller?
Christopher McQuarrie was working a regular 9-5 job when he wrote The Usual Suspects. Pretty sure they were re-writing as they went, which is why a lot of characters thought they were Keyser Soze. After The Usual Suspects in 1995 he wrote several spec scripts for big money, and was a script doctor on a lot of projects. His agent asked him to write another original crime movie like The Usual Suspects and he came up with The Way of the Gun (2000). That movie was great, but was too "crime" to get marketing from the studio and wasn't very successful at the box office. It is a great movie though - you all should watch it. Since 2000 I think he was doing a lot of rewrites and script doctoring until Tom Cruise tapped him for Valkryie (2008). He's been on most of Cruise's project since and has been a great choice.
Ok V, here's the next flic you need to react to. You'll be out WAY ahead of all the other UA-cam reactors. I say this because I've noticed once one reactor does a movie all the others tend to follow suit. So the movie is... "Frailty". It stars Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton & Powers Booth. It's an incredible low budget, sort of indie style, 2001 cult classic, suspense/thriller... and it's going to absolutely blow your mind. Trust me.
I love the fact that Fenster wasn't supposed to talk like that. Benicio Del Toro realised that nothing his character said really mattered at all to the plot of the film so decided to make him barely understandable. Bryan Singer thought it was a great idea and let him do it.
Good eye! I must've watched this movie 20 or so times, a few after having watched Breaking Bad, and I could still never quite place where I knew him from without eventually giving up and looking it up.
I love the moment when Verbal is telling Agent Kujan why Keaton didn't believe Kobayashi worked for Kaiser Soze. "Keaton was a grounded guy; an ex-cop. To a cop, there's no mystery to the streets, no mastermind behind it all. If you've got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're going to find out you're right." He was telling Kujan exactly how he was going to con him, by making him believe Keaton was Soze, and it worked.
5:30 "You can't do that! Against the law!"
Oh, VKunia, you sweet innocent summer child...
This is also an excellent example of the Unreliable Narrator.
It's beyond unreliable---you can safely assume that Verbal completely fabricated everything, just adding a few verifiable crimes here and there to make it fit what the cops already know. It's funny how many people there are that really hate not knowing what actually happened.
17:15 The quote, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" predates the movie by well over a century in some form. However, it was made much more popular because of this movie.
It goes back to at least the 1830's in writing and I think it's reasonable to assume it existed before that.
@@TheAtkeyI think it was a Latin saying first, maybe French, but it goes way, way back. I remember hearing something similar in my Folklore and Mythology of Europe class. It may have been in of the Arthurian stories since we spent a lot of time on them.
The way he says it sounded to me like he was quoting something. I assumed it was an aphorism I'd just never heard before.
It's from Leviticus 20:13
@@definitelynotanAIchatbot Unless you are using some version of the Bible that has the verses in different places Leviticus 20:13 has nothing about the devil convincing the world he doesn't exist.
"I don't know, feed it to the gimp"
That line kills me every time.
Zed’s dead, baby.
I like "Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut up."
"Major Strasser has been shot! Round up the usual suspects!"
Yea shots fired a lot of the time!
Louis I believe this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship
LOL, I guess most people will not get the reference. But yes, the title of The Usual suspects is (indirectly) taken from a line in another movie.
Here’s looking at you Keyser.
Each of the cast were under the impression they were Keyser Soze, and when the final edit was screened Gabriel Byrne was angry he wasn’t Soze after all.
I heard that about Byrne, I didn’t know Baldwin or pollock thought they were.
I heard that Byrne was so angry that kicked one of the extras on set so hard that the mans face fell off. Not sure if it's true though.
@@uncooked_hamI heard that too! It was either Nicholas Cage or John Travolta.
Also, if you'll remember, Verbil met Keaton in jail, so he was willing to do some time just to build his backstory. That includes doing various petty crimes and scams over time to create his reputation and persona of Verbil. Even more elaborate than on the face of it.
That only goes so far. He has to assume that there will be some digging into his record to verify a few things. He'd definitely be printed before the DA even spoke to him. So Verbal has to have some previous record somewhere. So my guess is that Soze did some actual work as Verbal to lay that groundwork, or had Kobayashi do the documentation forgeries to do so. Remember: he tells Kujan that he told Keaton in holding that he got 6 months in county but "walked." What if somebody looked into that before he was released? Loose end.
@@Theomite Yup! Great point.
She asked for recommendations of movies with plot twists. I'm tempted to suggest a movie with the most straight forward plot, just to watch her go bonkers trying to figure out what the non existent twist is. The greatest plot twist is that there is no plot twist!
i would say Lucky Number Slevin is quite possibly one of the best movies ever made that no one seems to know about. 😊
I know about it, but the reviews were middling at the time. It's also one of those million '00s crime movies whose poster looks direct-to-video even though it isn't. Same problem with SHOOT 'EM UP: great movie, but if you weren't there or paying attention at the time, you'd likely never hear of it.
Both great movies that nobody talks about.
Swordfish. Inside man. Thank me later ✌🏾
Lucky Number Slevin is an absolute Banger!!
"Kobayashi"'s accent is probably meant to be Indian, but how he really speaks is unknowable. What we see in this film is what Verbal tells us, so how reliable it is is a matter of debate for the past 30 years!
EDIT: One amazing thing on the rewatch, that scene where verbal is sitting in the office waiting for the cop to come in the first time round, your first view he looks bored, second and subsequent watches you see him studying the board. It's exactly the same footage, but you view it different each time!
Singer said on the commentary he's supposed to be Pakistani-British.
One mistake I could find , why would verbal tell that he killed Saul ? That was very out of character. He could have said anything. But it seemed like he told the truth
@@BennyBlancoNL I have this theory that some of the flashbacks are from Verbal's POV and others are what actually happened. Or some mixture of the 2. Because Verbal killing Saul is something that would likely happen but Verbal likely wouldn't say that for immunity reasons. So the flashback must've showed us that because it actually happened rather than what Verbal is describing.
@@Theomite Sure. That could be it.
One of the greatest twists in Film History! That's why it won the Oscar for Best Original Screen Play! LOVE this movie, ever since I saw it in the Theater back in the 90's. Amazing Film!
In the directors cut, McMannus leashes up the dog and brings him out to the dock. The dog runs up to a beautiful collie, and they run away happily in love! Great reaction, thank you.
I renenber going out to dinner after this movie and just sitting there shoveling food into my face in total awe of what I had just seen.
So many great actors in this.
And also Stephen Baldwin.
Who did a great job.
14:00-14:03 "What is English?"
Thank you Vee. After the last week I needed that pure in the moment unintentional laugh.
This one really caught a lot of attention when it came out. Now, these intricate twist endings have become somewhat common. But, oh man, when Usual Suspects hit it was pretty unique. I love this one, and the cast is impeccable
"Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead". and he even says 'gimp' too.
The Village, The Others, Vanilli Sky, Jacob's Ladder, Shutter Island, Before I Wake, The Mist, The Departed, Kpax, and Memento, are some movies you will love. If you enjoy foreign movies: I know you would enjoy: No Mercy" (2010), OldBoy (2003), and Re-cycle (2006).
Now you know why it's a classic that people don't like to talk about in case they give away a clue
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This was written by Christopher McQuarrie. He even won an Oscar for it. He wrote and directed the previous three MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE movies.
This damn movie, I swear. If a character had burst through a door dressed as a duck, and yelled, "Peruvian FBI! Duck division!" I wouldn't have thought that strange. I would have nodded grimly and tried to work out his significance in the tangle of schemes going on.
Missed opportunity from the filmmakers.
Also the added detail of you nodding *grimly* sells the comment, I can totally picture it too. Very few movies manage to feel as over-the-top and contrived but still deadpan serious and gripping at the same time. It's a wonderfully struck balance that sucks you in from the onset.
Two Fun facts:
1 - The line-up scene was originally intended to be more serious but Benicio Del Toro (Fenster) kept passing gas in between takes setting off the other actors and even frustrating director Brian Singer. Lol
2 - Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) actually thought he was Keyser Soze in the film and was disappointed to learn that he wasn't when the film premiered in 1995.
2:59 I was once in a car accident that was absolutely terrifying, and I was 100% certain I was about to die.
It was one of the calmest experiences of my entire life. I had no control over the situation. I was completely dependent on the actions of others to survive. I just let go and accepted the inevitable.
Which didn't happen. But it was a strangely calm experience.
That's...unnerving.
Same thing happened to me. Car accident, thought I was going to die, and I just remember calmly thinking 'Oh - so this is what it feels like.' If you're accepted that you're going to die, things can't literally get any worse, so it is strangely calming.
And your life doesn't flash before your eyes. Its over and you know it. Been there.
My cousin is the fence (peter green) and he's said flicking the cigarette was an improv and I think that's the most insane thing to do
Watch the movie again and look/listen for all the clues the director uses to tell the audience that Verbal is Keyser Soze. I'll give you 3.
1. The very first scene when Keaton and Soze are speaking. The voice of Keyser Soze is actually Kevin Spacey's voice. He used a lower tone to disguise it. But, if you close your eyes, you can 100% tell.
2) After the scene where Edie tells Keaton she loves him, there's a cut to Verbal smoking a cigarette. Except he's holding the cigarette the way only Europeans do...underhanded.
3) There are a few flashes of Keyser Soze using his lighter. His gold lighter. When Verbal picks up his belongings from holding just before he walks out of the police station, the cop reading Verbal's inventory says "One cigarette lighter, gold". That's your last chance to figure it out before the big reveal.
Nobody saw that coming, anyone who says they knew is LYING
Or they were spoiled. I got some hints and I still had trouble believing it. My parents, who didn't get fooled one second by what could be considered The Twist in Fight Club, were blown away by the moment.
I just happen to watch it a few days ago, catching up on the backlog of movies I don't have much interest in but have critical acclaim. For some reason it was obvious to me from the beginning but I wish I didn't know cuz it would have been more entertaining
Or they caught something you didn't. You don't get to just label a bunch of strangers as liars because YOU didn't catch a plot twist.
Unfortunately, my wife did. I had watched it first and was gobsmacked at the ending. Watching a second time with my wife and she guessed half way through. I called her a witch, she said "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife." Don't know how she did it.
My mom had me watch it and she wanted to see if I could get it. I had my suspicion it was Verbal because he was the most unlikely as a character setup and the title but when I saw the scene where they catch Kobayashi in the elevator, as they walked out, I saw that Kobayashi was helping Verbal by leading him by his right arm. I told my mom, "Kobayashi is Verbal's right hand man, literally. That makes Verbal Keiser Sose." My mom waited until the end to show her amazement as she didn't want to spoil the twist. I thought maybe I had got it wrong as it got close to the end and maybe it was Keaton but it just still seemed too obvious for me based on the way the movie had gone to move away from Verbal.
An armed robbery with lots of weapons is definitely not a scam 😂
Favorite line...
Verbal: He (Soze) becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night.
"Rat on your pop, and Keyser Soze will get you."
Ooh good one. Mine's: Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him." Well, I believe in God, Agent Kujan, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
Whatever your thoughts are about Kevin Spacey, he's an incredible actor. That delivery was *chef's kiss*.
@@SteelburghKevin Spacey should be redeemed. Young men could easily fight him off if they wanted.
14:52 The cigarette to the face was an accident, but it was so good they kept it.
Peter green did it intentionally and claims it as his million dollar improv moment
@@josephamesdacey6442 That might be a lie. There's footage of that take in the outtake reel they compiled for the cast & crew after wrap where he clearly freaks out "JESUS CHRIST!" and walks into frame to see if Baldwin's alright.
@@Theomite Could be both - like maybe the 'flicking the cigarette at him' was the improv, but he'd just intended to hit him in the chest, or somewhere clothing was covering, so he was shocked it went in the face. Not that I actually know one way or the other. 😅
I saw this in the theaters twice. First time, maybe 10 other people in the only theater on it's opening weekend. A week later, it was at capacity, and i think half of us had already seen in it! Super cast and great plot!
At the start of the movie, they're all in the line-up because someone stole a truck of gun parts. At 15:50 Kobayashi reveals it was actually Hockney, when the others all stare at him he just shrugs!
The title of the film "The Usual Suspects" is a reference to a line from the film Casablanca, where a police officer gives an order to "round up the usual suspects" after a climactic moment in the movie.
The title comes from "Casablanca" (1942). Have you seen that one?
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
"Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the number of usual suspects." 😎
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing almost everyone who’s seen this movie already to not give up the twist ending! Seriously, that almost never happens.
This is art.
My favorite piece of trivia is that At the film festival premier Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) was angry at the director Bryan Singer because up until that night when he saw the final cut he believed HE was Keyser Soze, he was so angry he stormed off and then was telling at the director for almost an hour! In fact during filming the director made it a point to convince all of the main criminal actors that they were Keyser Soze.
28:15 Maybe, maybe not. Don’t forget, the flashback is narrated by Verbal. It’s very likely he made the entire movie up so that nothing of what you saw actually happened.
Exactly. It's possible that everything happened precisely what we have seen, and it's possible that nothing was real in the movie.
If you take it from the police point of view and accept what they know is parts truth, then his story of them hitting the police cruiser with crooked cops is real, the hit getting the drugs is real since there has to be record of finding dead bodies in the parking garage.. the whole line up to start with happened for sure, it is what happen between those incidents or the lead to them is the questionable part the way i see it.
We know the opening scene and the scenes in the present are real. Anything else is up for debate
Benicio del Toro farted during the lineup scene. Thats why they all started laughing.
The title is a reference to a line used in the 1942 movie Casablanca. And you picked up on the twist before the reveal! Well done! Yeah, this IS such a classic! Glad that you saw it!
You have to feel privileged to have seen this movie. It is hands down the greatest cinematic twist EVER. I've seen it a million times and the ending still gives me goosebumps 😁👍
@BGSmedia123 oooh la la, someone's Gonna get laid in college
Keyser Soze has kind of become a legend of its own, like the boogie man
It is just crazy when u realize that the first time he said "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled..", he was talking about himself
Now that's how you win an Oscar for screenwriting.
V: "You have so many stories! He loves story time."
Me: 😬🤣
I'll never forget leaving the cinema absolutely speechless for about 3 mins and the only thing that came out of my mouth after was "Holy s*** that was the best movie I've ever seen! Still in my top 5.
I would probably recommend L.A. Confidential. Not a "big twist" movie, but it is an amazingly written crime noir, with a stellar cast
Its actually common to hold top ejecting guns at an angle so hot brass doesn't hit you. And holding guns at 90 degree angles has advantages usually to do with recoil.
One of the greatest twist films of all time.
THIS MOVIE IS CRAZYY!! so glad you watched it 😍❤️
your reaction was also great so happy seeing my favorite reactors supporting eachother 👏🏼
6:58 Another person I didn't recognize in all the times I watched this movie is Clark Gregg (aka Agent Coulson) playing a doctor walking after Giancarlo.
one of my favourites, and the hints are countless. which makes rewatching it a joy.
Hands down, the best twist and by far the best ending line of all time!
Another great movie with Kevin Spacey is “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” It’s a great story with great characters.
The title is a nod to Casablanca, one of the best films EVER MADE.
Don't worry according to the old DVD commentary I had, the dog survived.
Yeah, the fire was on deck and the dog was below deck, so he'd be okay.
Apparently in the directors cut they actually show the the dog is alive and well.
“Not you, you’re cool. You make it out alive”. lol!
One thing that always surprise me, is that when Kujan was telling the tale of the life of Keaton, how he become a cop, his crimes, his time in prison, he sit just along side Verbal in front of the board, and never realise that Verbal is lying to him or the fact that maybe Keaton wasn't the one killing the witnesses to his crime, he have a "guardian angel" that was saving him top use him in later date.
A line I consider key was cut in this reaction. Around the time of the line-up that is used for the cover of the video, the narrator tells us that this gave him a chance to act like he was notorious. We know he weaved together lies from the board, plus anything the police fed him as facts. The line suggests that he was not as infamous as a criminal, but great as a storyteller.
When he gets into the car at the end, we might think of the name of the lawyer, but that was just the maker of the mug that the main character saw when he looked up at the coffee drinker very early on. We might realize we don’t know his name, but might still think of him as a lawyer, but he wouldn’t have to be that, either.
One story Keyser Soze made up that I knew was impossible was that they made coffee from beans right from the trees. Nope, you have to remove they berry part, dry, and roast the beans first.
Remember, almost everything that we see in flashback is from Verbal's story - and Verbal lied. So we don't really know very much of anything.
If you haven't already done so, you might check out "L A Confidential' or "Lone Star".
The title is from THE classic, Casablanca. It coined the phrase and made it part of the vocabulary.
After all these years, and having watched this movie like a dozen times, I just made the connection. Blues Brothers is friggin Gus Fring! Dayum!!
The man who wrote this is christopher mcquarrie. He is probably best known for directing and writing the latest mission impossible movies. In my mind he is one of the creators screenwriters in Hollywood. Unfortunately he never seems to be able to make his own stuff. Everything he does is fixing other people’s scripts or doing franchises.
I recommend 'The Way of the Gun'.
@@ewenwindham8407 I have seen it. It’s a good movie, unfortunately it was a big flop, and the reason that Macquarie was put in director jail
Check out the 1946 b&w movie "The Locket." Has an oddly similar dramatic climax, with a sound montage of many voices, as the main character is walking down the aisle at her own wedding. I wouldn't be surprised if the filmmakers who did "Suspects" saw and were partly inspired by "The Locket."
I knew Keaton couldn't have been Soze when I heard Soze killed Edie. One thing I've had confidence in was how much Keaton loved her...
Now you HAVE to see the Key & peele parody of the ending "Cat poster" xD
Thanks for reviewing one of my all-time favorite movies
Brian Singer's first film who went on to make the X-Men. Allegedly someone (del Toro) farted during the line up scene which is why they all have the giggles.
Great companion to this is LA Confidential, a 50s noir cop drama that introduced two Aussies Guy Pearce and a certain Russel Crowe to the world alongside Kevin Spacey, Danny de Vito and Kim Basinger. A top rated and very intelligent film that has just as many twists and turns and oozes with style.
LA Confidential
The Sting
I second The Sting. Also, Robert Redford and Paul Newman at their finest. What chemistry!
Yes, you're right of course, they are called "the usual suspects" because they "look" like criminals. 😹😹😹
LA Confidential is my favorite film.
Almost everything Verbal says is true except the names and details about hus Verbal character. But they are the stories the other guys believed as well. Love this movie. The commentary track is fantastic.
Great reaction, finally you are reaction to one of my favourites movies of all time. There are some fun-facts about it like always. The line-up scene was improved with a fart. When asked by a fan on Twitter about whether there was truth to the fact the group of actors kept making each other laugh while shooting the line-up scene, McQuarrie elaborated that it was specifically one actor farting that caused this to happen. However, he expressed gratitude for the incident and explained how it helped improve both the scene and the script overall. It's pretty well-known by this point that the actor McQuarrie is referring to is Oscar winner del Toro, who Pollack previously revealed: "farted like 12 takes in a row." Lol
Keyser Söze was named after a lawyer. Screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie once worked for a lawyer named Keyser Sume (pronounced sue-may), whom he told: “You’ve got a great name. You’re going to be the villain in a script some day.” When it came time to write The Usual Suspects, McQuarrie figured that, for legal reasons, he’d better not use the exact name, and so he replaced it with part of the Turkish expression “söze boğmak,” which means “talk too much” (literally, “drown in/with words”). Considering that the movie also has a character nicknamed, Verbal because he “talks too much,” Turkish audiences might not have been as surprised by the movie’s ending as other viewers were.
Kevin Spacey asked to be in the movie before he even knew what it would be. The actor met Bryan Singer at a screening of the director's first feature, Public Access, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1993. Spacey liked the movie so much that he told Singer he wanted to be in whatever he made next. “I took that as an assignment,” Singer told Charlie Rose. “Because I worship this man as an actor.” Al pacino turned down the role of dave kujan to play a cop in a different movie. That would be Heat, which famously paired him onscreen with Robert De Niro for the first time. Pacino didn’t want to play a cop twice in the same year, so he opted for the more prestigious, Michael Mann-directed project.
Fenster’s unique dialect was all benicio Del Toro’s idea. As Del Toro explained it on Inside the Actors Studio, his character’s only real purpose in the story was to die. So to liven things up, Del Toro tried delivering Fenster’s lines the way the audience hears them in the film-very quickly, and with a thick, indiscernible accent. Nobody on the set could understand him. Singer later recalled, “At first I thought it was a joke, but I didn’t want to offend him if it wasn’t a joke.” Keep up the good work.
Now that youve watched The Usual Suspects, now you should watch:
The Sting (1973)
Laura (1944)
The Conversation (1974)
The Last Seduction (1994)
Enjoy.
The cop talking with the civilian at the end of the movie where Kujan just missed Verbal entering the car with his "lawyer" was Bryan Singer (the director) and Christopher McQuarrie (the screenwriter).
"Is that GENE CARLO?" 😂
We pronounce Giancarlo: G-un-car-lo.
I've watched this film several times and near the end and I actually never picked up before that most of the story Verbal was telling was false but I still remember the surprise reveal that he was Soze all along, even before watching it.
I think the title “The Usual Suspects” came from the movie “Casablanca”.
Similar cult film with female leads and twist ending, 'Bitch Slap' 2009.
I'm obsessed with your top. That design is pretty dope
That cigarette legit hit Stephen Baldwin in the eye, it was an accident, but the director liked it so much they kept it in.
"Is it Fabio?" 😂 This is a master class in thrillers and why the 90s was a great decade for flims.
As twist endings go, this is one of the best.
The screen where Redfoot flicks the cigarette into McManus's face was an accident. The actor was supposed to flick the cigarette into Baldwin's chest, but it went high. They kept it in obviously.
In the lineup scene, the reason everyone was laughing was that Benicio del Toro was farting in each take they did.
“There is no Kaiser Permanente!”
Just so beautiful. Great reaction as ever to a true classic. This is how ro write a plot twist.
I remember when oI first saw this movie and the twist ending blew me away and it remains one of my favourite rewatchable movies of all time
OMG I loved watching you shocked when it was "revealed" that Keaton was.. yeah.. XD
One of the best film twists ever!
What everyone misses about this movie is that we are being played, too. The whole story is fake. We have zero idea what really happened. You can't rely on anything he says. The heists, the conflicts, the conversations, bull crap. It was the story we were supposed to hear to explain things the cops already knew, but it was made up. There are no loose ends which aren't explained. There are no explanations. It was all BS.
Some things must be true. There would be other evidence. But yes , that's the greatest twist , you dont really know what is true. (There would be proof from those heists)
@vkunia If you want an 80s movie with a lot of plot twists (that a lot of other reactors haven't done yet), let me suggest "No Way Out" starring Kevin Costner. Not as good as The Usual Suspects, but still quite a thriller?
I think this is my favorite crime-thriller movie❤ It's my "comfort-movie" at this point xD😂
The Sting is a classic!
This was such a great twist ending. The reason they were laughing in the police lineup is because one of them kept farting
Christopher McQuarrie was working a regular 9-5 job when he wrote The Usual Suspects. Pretty sure they were re-writing as they went, which is why a lot of characters thought they were Keyser Soze. After The Usual Suspects in 1995 he wrote several spec scripts for big money, and was a script doctor on a lot of projects. His agent asked him to write another original crime movie like The Usual Suspects and he came up with The Way of the Gun (2000). That movie was great, but was too "crime" to get marketing from the studio and wasn't very successful at the box office. It is a great movie though - you all should watch it. Since 2000 I think he was doing a lot of rewrites and script doctoring until Tom Cruise tapped him for Valkryie (2008). He's been on most of Cruise's project since and has been a great choice.
Ok V, here's the next flic you need to react to. You'll be out WAY ahead of all the other UA-cam reactors. I say this because I've noticed once one reactor does a movie all the others tend to follow suit. So the movie is... "Frailty". It stars Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton & Powers Booth. It's an incredible low budget, sort of indie style, 2001 cult classic, suspense/thriller... and it's going to absolutely blow your mind. Trust me.
Incredible, iconic crime movie with a crazy twist: LA Confidential from 1997.
"SIGNS" (M. Night Shyamalan) staring Mel Gibson / Joaquin Phoenix. You'll love it! ❤
One of my favorite movies, with a stellar cast.
I love the fact that Fenster wasn't supposed to talk like that. Benicio Del Toro realised that nothing his character said really mattered at all to the plot of the film so decided to make him barely understandable. Bryan Singer thought it was a great idea and let him do it.
The departed, l.A. confidential, basic, inside man, Donnie brasco, we own the night just to name a few I guarantee you would love
Good eye! I must've watched this movie 20 or so times, a few after having watched Breaking Bad, and I could still never quite place where I knew him from without eventually giving up and looking it up.
I love the moment when Verbal is telling Agent Kujan why Keaton didn't believe Kobayashi worked for Kaiser Soze. "Keaton was a grounded guy; an ex-cop. To a cop, there's no mystery to the streets, no mastermind behind it all. If you've got a dead body and you think his brother did it, you're going to find out you're right." He was telling Kujan exactly how he was going to con him, by making him believe Keaton was Soze, and it worked.
Both Angel Heart and Chinatown have great endings.
A great movie with twist "The Game" with Michael Douglas!