Yes absolutely. I love seeing people’s minds get completely and utterly blown by the double twist/misdirection at the end. Always has me gleefully laughing.
@@derrickowen8162 is it fair to say that the big twists from Fight Club and Sixth Sense probably come closest to being as shocking as the ending to Usual Suspects? I mean, from those 3 they're all pretty well known but I think with the right viewer who wasn't around for the initial hype could be equally shocked by all 3.
@@jonessmith3187 The Game with Michael Douglas. Arlington Road with Tim Robbins. Don't watch anything about them, just rent or buy them on digital and enjoy.
Remember, the story begins the morning after the fire on the boat. Most of the story is told POV from Verbal. What Soze/Verbal was doing was buying time before he was let out on bail. He had to improvise the backstory with what the Detective was telling him, and Soze/Verbal would have never brought up Soze if that man in the hospital bed had not mentioned it. So once again, Soze/Verbal had to improvise again. Wonderful misdirection.
After Kujan asks who is Soze he has a genuine reaction of “oh shit” to it and then he has to scramble to work him into his story. After that, you see him looking at the bottom of Kujan’s coffee mug. It’s great to go back and watch and notice all the subtle little things he does as he’s looking around and piecing a story together.
@@potato-whiz I never noticed him looking at the mug! I've seen this so many times and I never noticed it! That's so rad. Thanks! I'm gonna watch it again! ❤
The line-up scene when they read the statement is one of the greatest improvised scenes in film. The actors we all trying to make each other laugh. It made the director furious. Such an iconic scene.
No they were laughing because one of them could not stop farting. Director was furious because he wanted a serious scene and they just went off the rails with accents. It was the first scene filmed and they kept the ridiculous accents trough the movie, mostly because Del Torro realized his character was meant to just show off how Soze is scary when he can kill one of them at any time so to make himself memorable he went overboard with the accent.
Yep! Kevin Pollack (Hockney) tells the story of that frequently on his podcast. He said they were cracking each other up and the director yelled at them, saying they ruined a whole days shoot, in what was already a tight schedule. But the editor put together a rough cut of the dailies that showed how they could use it, and it helped cement the tone of the rest of the movie. The criminals came together to goof the police and bonded.
One of the best misdirection movies of all time! I've watched it multiple times. To show how smart Verbal was, he was literally just selecting words a d names from random places, off a piece of paper, from the bottom of a coffee cup, in real time while he tells his story. Amazing.
@Jeffrey Barnett The screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie who won the Oscar for this screenplay mentions how he based that partly on how he wrote the story by looking around his office for ideas and weaved that into the storyline a brilliant film one of the best thrillers plus the now iconic ending still gives me chills .
This is the epitome of a great Original Screenplay. No source material, just pure creativity. Whether you like it or not, you can recognize how great the writing is, and writing is the key to generating classic movies and stories in general. We need more movies like this, which are like needles in haystacks the last two decades. 90's were peak for films.
@@alswearengen6427 I feel like Gladiator was more a 90s movie since it was in 2000 and was more a part of the late 90's spate of movies around Memento, Matrix era than bulk of the 2000s, which were not as good or great as the 90s.
@@zachbocchino5501 Fame is subjective but he WAS pretty famous. Dude won an Oscar for this role then won Best Actor in 1999, getting roles every year. Also starred in a great show for 5 years with countless Emmy nominations. (House of Cards) Then it came out he’s a sexual deviant and went into obscurity.
This movie is great on the rewatch as when you see Verbal in the office waiting for the interrogation to start you can see his eyes darting around. He's scanning the bulletin board already crafting his story. Also, when the Agent drinks his coffee, you see Verbal looking up, which is when he sees Kobyashi on the bottom of the cup. You'll see all the clues you missed the first time around.
Also, when the detective circles behind him and starts laying out his personal theory that Keaton was behind it, you can see Verbal crack the tiniest smile, as he realizes, "This is how I'm going to play this guy."
Also, you notice during the line-up when Verbal says the line, "Hand me the keys....etc" you get a very rare glimpse at who he really is as he says it with such venom which is completely out of character for Verbal. Subtle and brilliant!
Coming at this a little late, but if you notice when Verbal is smoking that cigarette, he's holding it the way Europeans hold it, not Americans. That's a clue, since Keyser is supposed to be Hungarian.
The "scary guy" fence was the bad guy in "The Mask" with Jim Carrey. The actor's name is Peter Greene. He was also Zed in "Pulp Fiction"...the one who owned the motorcycle Bruce Willis' character took after the pawn shop scene.
The directional camera unveiling tracking shot with the perfect unravelling of Spacey's walk from 'cripple' to normal is perfection movie making, even if you have figured out the ending! 👏😳
@@TequilaToothpick yes, Im sure a lot of random people rank it high. Never said they didnt. I just said its not a contender for best movie of all time.
The whole movie fooled everyone in the theater. You (Cassie) aren't not the only one who was fooled. It was so watchable to see your face features keep changing.🙂🙂🙂
This and Fight Club were the two greatest “first time” watches. It was so awesome to have a perfectly executed twist dumped on you right at the end. Makes the modern “subversion of expectations” look like an elementary school play lol.
The Usual Suspects was the first film where I got to the end and said there was no way the misdirection/twist was that air-tight. So I immediately watched again, right then, knowing the story now and damn if it isn't one of the tightest plots I've ever seen on film. It's a near perfect movie with fantastic acting, storytelling and intrigue that still remains highly re-watchable. Amazing flick!
A fantastic film, i was blown away back in 1996 when i first saw it and had many discussions at the time, Cassie, your reactiobs and end summary piecing everything together was genius, your sister must watch this, her theory would be a fun watch
I think the ending works so well, because we have the dummy 'Keaton is Soze' twist beforehand, which makes a bit of sense but has a few holes that is completely plausible as an unsatisfying twist ending you'd get in a film. Most viewers will be a bit deflated or frustrated by this reveal, but then this makes the REAL twist always land, even if people have heard beforehand about the fact that there's a surprise ending.
@@jgmediting7770 I claim almost all of it is made up and you provide examples of what is not made up. How in God's green earth did you refute what I said?
I would say that the one scene we know is 100% objectively what happened would be the opening scene where Keaton dies and that's it. The only other things we know are assorted facts revealed by the police and possibly the lineup
It's always fun to watch older movies and seeing young actors that go on to be famous.......like Giancarlo Esposito. AKA Gus from Breaking Bad and Moff Gideon from The Mandalorian.
yeah, it's funny because I saw this in the theatre when it came out and watched it again on DVD dozens of times and then watched Breaking Bad and didn't notice it was the same actor until I watched 'the usual suspects' again after watching Breaking Bad
@@billymuellerTikTok That makes sense though, since he makes a much bigger dent in Breaking Bad. He is sort of a Keyser Söze figure, at least for a while. But he is not the one you remember from The Usual Suspects, especially not if you waited 13+ years to see him in BB. He is definitely memorable in BB though, enough to make you look for him in other material. A fella gotta touch your soul first in order to be easily recognized.
@@billymuellerTikTok I knew going into this movie that Giancarlo would be in it, and was actively looking for him throughout the entire movie and yet it took me multiple scenes to realize that the FBI agent was him
I had heard a while back, I think in an interview with some of the cast, that even they didn't know who, until after filming, who was actually Kaiser Sose. So when Gabriel Byrne, the actor who played "Keaton", found out his character wasn't Sose, he went to the director and thoroughly chewed him out.
yea he had them all believe they were Soze (except Benicio). Benicio knew his character was the toss away one that died early so he had fun and give his character the memorable accent of gibberish.
@@dareal5401 I'm sorry I really don't understand your question. I recall hearing that Stephen Baldwin was also surprised it was Kevin Spacey as Soze, because he said he was also told HE was Soze.
@@dareal5401 No. But they didn't tell anyone who ACTUALLY was Keyser Soze. Only Kevin Spacey would have known as he filmed the end scene. Gabriel Byrne had filmed the scene with him as Keyser Soze for part of the story and so believed he was him.
And Byrne was perplexed why should he film a shot wearing Söze's coat and pointing the gun since he is not Söze. So they told him "Well, we liked you very much in Miller's crossing"
Years ago I had to watch this movie several times to grasp it...glad you enjoyed it I knew it would send your head spinning... Great reaction as Usual Cassie.
I saw this movie in film class. The whole time watching it I was like "oh this is okay I guess. I dont see the big deal." And then the twist happened and I lost my mind. Hands down one of the best films I have ever seen in my life. And I love how it makes you look back at the entire movie and think "was literally ANY of it true?" We literally end up knowing absolutely nothing about what happened that night. It is so crazy to think about. The only thing we know is what his aid looks like
Some years ago, I was reading a true crime book written by a former detective (and written before The Usual Suspects came out) and he tells the story about how he'd lock 3 suspects up and figure out the guilty one by whoever can get to sleep. The story is pretty much word-for-word as it's told in the movie, so undoubtedly the writer (Christopher McQuarrie) read that book and did a ton of research on true crime. I wish I could remember the title!
That's such a flawed method of thinking, though... what if more than one of them goes to sleep, or the wrong one sleeps because he knows he's innocent?
@@Kainlarsen the one who’s guilty is relieved of the stress they’ve been under prior to being caught. It’s a release. The ones who are innocent are now stressed when they weren’t before.
One of the best reactions I have seen. You just allowed me to see the movie for the first time again through your eyes. Definitely a "Mind Blown" moment.
Subbed. 🎉🎉🎉 i love the usual suspects. The look on your face when the twist happened was perfect. I still preach this movie to ANYONE that has never seen it.
I love watching your videos. Because despite having not seen these movies, you are consistently and extremely accurate in predicting what happens in a lot of these movies. You are very smart and wise and observant. You miss a few things but it's amazing how quickly you catch onto stuff.
This used to be my favorite movie for such a long time, this an Lucky Number Sleven have two of the greatest twists I think. The moment he kicks his foot out at the end blew my mind back in the day.
It is so worth rewatching. This is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. And the lineup scene with the 5 guys reading the saying. That was actually them really laughing and the director decided to keep it in the movie because it was the best take. ❤️🔥😀👍
So good! In the bonus features on the dvd, as someone commented before, none of the actors knew who Soze was until the end of reading the script. My favorite of the bonus features of the actors talking about making it was that in the line up at the beginning, they were all giggling because Benicio Del Toro (Fenster) kept farting and couldn’t stop. It was pure editing that made that scene work.
The Usual Suspects is in my top ten movies of all time. It's so well crafted. There were little clues that pointed to Verbal but then Singer would throw out some other clue that pointed away from him. Even in the making of the movie, nobody was clear on who was Kaiser Soze. Gabriel Byrne thought he was Kaiser. When showed up at the premiere he was shocked and pissed to find out Spacey was Kaiser. Bryan Singer had to calm him down.
This is hands down one of the best twist movies ever! Besides an excellent story you have brilliant acting, directing and editing. A definite rewatch. Many times over and you'll see new things on each one.
I stopped cooking my supper because I was dying to see your reaction to this! PLUS it had been such a long time since I had seen this myself. I forgot how awesome it was!
A bit of trivia about this film. The first weekend that this was released in cinemas had a slightly different listing of the actors. Someone had slipped up BADLY! The original opening credits last entry read "And Kevin Spacey as Kiezer Soze" Thankfully someone noticed & this was VERY quickly rectified to list Spacey as Verbal. Great reaction, Cassie (as always). Hope everyone is keeping well & having a great day
Now that you know Verbal is Soze, go back and watch when he is telling the back story of Soze when he went against the Hungarians and watch Verbal's eyes. The emotion. He's not telling a story of a third person he's reliving an emotion and event in his own life.
Greatest twist in cinema history. We can all hate Spacey for his personal life, but he made this film historically good. One of my favorite films ever.
But she's never got anything. Sje cant follow anything deeper than an episode of Tomas the tank engine.. Why are guys praising her every week? Shes like a 9 year old tryong to get movies. And shes never understanding what goes on, why is everyone sayong she's hood at getting stuff.? She and her sister are the worst at getting movies. They find ot hard to follow a Bond movie. Never met anyone like that. Stop praising her for something. Shrs a female yes, but dont praise her for that. Christ 🙄
This is my top 5 movie of all time. Love how everybody watching this for the first time gets chocked by the ending. But Cassie you actually predicted in the beginning that Verbal was the smart one. Loved the reaction !!
My college roommate spoiled the ending for me and oh man I was pissed lol so when I finally watched it, it was actually cool to know the twist and try to catch the clues along the way.
Of all things, a SITCOM spoiled the ending for me. Granted, the sitcom came out years after the movie, but I hadn't seen the movie yet and was planning on watching it the next evening, but it still sucks the air out of the room to not be able to enjoy the twist as much.
@@joshcharlie13 to be fair, she felt absolutely awful. She apologized for days! She loved it so much and she really believed EVERYone had seen it (it had been out about a year at that point).
It's brilliant because they tell you who he is all through the movie Soza means Talks too much The very first line Keaton says is, sarcastically, "I can't feel my legs...... Keyser" as in.......I'm a cripple..... verbal McManus says "strangest thing" How protected verbal was Soze literally MEANS talks too much If you watch.....look at his energy when he tells the tale of his family When he's leaving the station he gets a gold watch and Lighter
Magnificent film. I've seen it many times and that final scene never fails to give me chills. Fun fact: Söze is part of a Turkish phrase which means "One who talks too much", i.e. Verbal. :D
Some is true, some is mixed with the scenery just to get through the interrogation. Kaiser truly killed his family to take back power. Kaiser brought that group together in order to take out a witness, and once that group was killed, he’d be free.
Not every movie needs to be rewatched, but this is one of them. And sometimes even when you think you've got it all down, you see or hear something you didn't see the 4 times you already saw it. Love those kinds of movies. Like "The Sixth Sense" or "Pulp Fiction", it's so good to rewatch, watching those parts that seemed one way when you watched it the first time, knowing what the truth is, you see what those scenes really mean. And the movie "Primer", that's one you have to watch a bunch of times. It's slow, because it's a lot to take in. Put that on the list.
Ms Popcorn this movie was a life lesson in strategy. Now you are wise to the world and deception and misdirection. It's like the shell game, it keeps you guessing where the pea is but in the end there IS no pea. Kevin Spacey is brilliant in this and LA confidential he was also quite good. He might be a pervert but is a great actor.
One of the best stories, scripts ever. There really is no way to guess what's going to happen and definitely no way to anticipate the ending. GREAT movie, one of my favorites.
You need to watch all the behind the scenes on the dvd now. Your mind will be blown all over when they explain to you how you see one movie the first time, and a totally different movie the second time you watch it. There’s also some great stories , particularly when they were all laughing in the line up.
this was the best one ever. saw it in the theatre when it came out, NO ONE knew what happened until it was revealed. everyone gave the movie a standing ovation (even though there was no one from the movie in the theatre)... the only movies that had this much of a reaction were 'We Were Soldiers' (everyone left the theatre silently and crying) and 'The Blair Witch Project' (all the teenagers were staring at the screen with white blank faces and their hands gripping the seat in front of them because they thought it was real).
I love this movie. My ex-wife never saw it until I made her. 10 min into it, she turned to me and said Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Sozei. I was blown away. That's not the reason I married her, but I was always awed at how she could see through movie plots. Anyway, this movie is awesome.
You should’ve heard the theater erupt in shock and surprise when me and the wife saw it!!! The entire theater was dumbstruck……….and then it was brought up in Derry girls? I was delighted!! What a awesome movie
Maybe my favorite movie. And see...when you look back on it, you understand more than you realized. But it takes at least one more watch, knowing what you know now, to really put it together. This might be one to watch with Carley and watch her work through it.
😂😂😂Yes! Your face totally mimics mine the first time I saw this movie! 😳. It’s one of my all time favorites! And yes you will NEED a second viewing! Thanks Cassie for reacting to this movie!
The movie shows why he has the name Verbal. He can TALK. And he can make up stories on the fly from anything he sees around him, and he can make it completely believable. Kevin Spacey is worse than a creep, but he was BRILLIANT in this movie.
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Even when you know the ending, it never gets old. Immensely rewatchable.
and watch people watch it for the first time.
Yes absolutely. I love seeing people’s minds get completely and utterly blown by the double twist/misdirection at the end. Always has me gleefully laughing.
It's one of those twists that have never really been reimplemented successfully.
@@derrickowen8162 is it fair to say that the big twists from Fight Club and Sixth Sense probably come closest to being as shocking as the ending to Usual Suspects? I mean, from those 3 they're all pretty well known but I think with the right viewer who wasn't around for the initial hype could be equally shocked by all 3.
@@jonessmith3187 The Game with Michael Douglas. Arlington Road with Tim Robbins. Don't watch anything about them, just rent or buy them on digital and enjoy.
Remember, the story begins the morning after the fire on the boat. Most of the story is told POV from Verbal. What Soze/Verbal was doing was buying time before he was let out on bail. He had to improvise the backstory with what the Detective was telling him, and Soze/Verbal would have never brought up Soze if that man in the hospital bed had not mentioned it. So once again, Soze/Verbal had to improvise again. Wonderful misdirection.
The Unreliable Narrator.
I always wondered what the real story was since aside from the parts Agent Kujan was apart of, everything was told from Verbals pov
After Kujan asks who is Soze he has a genuine reaction of “oh shit” to it and then he has to scramble to work him into his story. After that, you see him looking at the bottom of Kujan’s coffee mug. It’s great to go back and watch and notice all the subtle little things he does as he’s looking around and piecing a story together.
Yup, was going to blame kobayashi but they brought up soze so 'verbal' changed the story right there - perfect directing & editing!
@@potato-whiz I never noticed him looking at the mug! I've seen this so many times and I never noticed it! That's so rad. Thanks! I'm gonna watch it again! ❤
The line-up scene when they read the statement is one of the greatest improvised scenes in film. The actors we all trying to make each other laugh. It made the director furious. Such an iconic scene.
No they were laughing because one of them could not stop farting. Director was furious because he wanted a serious scene and they just went off the rails with accents. It was the first scene filmed and they kept the ridiculous accents trough the movie, mostly because Del Torro realized his character was meant to just show off how Soze is scary when he can kill one of them at any time so to make himself memorable he went overboard with the accent.
According to the actors, Bencio Del Toro farted, which led to the giggle fits which just kept getting worse.
Yep! Kevin Pollack (Hockney) tells the story of that frequently on his podcast. He said they were cracking each other up and the director yelled at them, saying they ruined a whole days shoot, in what was already a tight schedule. But the editor put together a rough cut of the dailies that showed how they could use it, and it helped cement the tone of the rest of the movie. The criminals came together to goof the police and bonded.
The story is that Benicio Del Toro was farting the whole time. Which is why Gabriel Byrne is covering his mouth and nose.
it made the director so mad that they kept the scene in it's entirety in the film. Ooooookay...
"And like that, he's gone" cut to black is soooo good
1995 is a phenomenal year for crime films: The Usual Suspects, Se7en, Heat, Casino, La Haine, etc...
Right?! And for films in general.
the 90's was the greatest movie decade ..
@@happyapple4269 For me the greatest movie decade has to be the 70's.
and yet somehow Braveheart was the best picture according to the US Academey?
@@stvdagger8074 The other nominees were Apollo 13, Babe, Sense and Sensibility, & Il Postino.
One of the best misdirection movies of all time! I've watched it multiple times. To show how smart Verbal was, he was literally just selecting words a d names from random places, off a piece of paper, from the bottom of a coffee cup, in real time while he tells his story. Amazing.
@Jeffrey Barnett The screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie who won the Oscar for this screenplay mentions how he based that partly on how he wrote the story by looking around his office for ideas and weaved that into the storyline a brilliant film one of the best thrillers plus the now iconic ending still gives me chills .
"I think he's a secret genius."
Holy Shit... you don't know how right you are!
Oh yeah, she called the biggest twist!
This is the epitome of a great Original Screenplay. No source material, just pure creativity. Whether you like it or not, you can recognize how great the writing is, and writing is the key to generating classic movies and stories in general. We need more movies like this, which are like needles in haystacks the last two decades. 90's were peak for films.
90's and the 2000's. The 90's were a great decade for film, but the early to mid 2000's were right up there: from Gladiator to No Country for old men.
@@alswearengen6427 I feel like Gladiator was more a 90s movie since it was in 2000 and was more a part of the late 90's spate of movies around Memento, Matrix era than bulk of the 2000s, which were not as good or great as the 90s.
This was Chris Macquarrie's breakout Hollywood script and still probably his best
I saw this back when it came out. Kevin Spacey wasn't famous then. I still get chills on the final cut to black. Such a well-crafted film.
He really isn't that famous now.
@@zachbocchino5501 Fame is subjective but he WAS pretty famous. Dude won an Oscar for this role then won Best Actor in 1999, getting roles every year. Also starred in a great show for 5 years with countless Emmy nominations. (House of Cards) Then it came out he’s a sexual deviant and went into obscurity.
@@zachbocchino5501 Yet everyone knows who he is
@@zachbocchino5501 well, he's famous now but not the good kind.
@@markmac2206 Yeah but not for the right reasons. He's not even in many movies these days anymore.
This movie is great on the rewatch as when you see Verbal in the office waiting for the interrogation to start you can see his eyes darting around. He's scanning the bulletin board already crafting his story. Also, when the Agent drinks his coffee, you see Verbal looking up, which is when he sees Kobyashi on the bottom of the cup. You'll see all the clues you missed the first time around.
Also, when the detective circles behind him and starts laying out his personal theory that Keaton was behind it, you can see Verbal crack the tiniest smile, as he realizes, "This is how I'm going to play this guy."
Also, you notice during the line-up when Verbal says the line, "Hand me the keys....etc" you get a very rare glimpse at who he really is as he says it with such venom which is completely out of character for Verbal. Subtle and brilliant!
@@Aldo21574 Also in that scene, he puts emphasis on the word "me" - "Hand ME the keys."
I guess that was a clue that HE was behind it all.
You also realize the same guy who shoots Keaton in the trench coat, holds his cigarette the same awkward way Verbal does
Coming at this a little late, but if you notice when Verbal is smoking that cigarette, he's holding it the way Europeans hold it, not Americans. That's a clue, since Keyser is supposed to be Hungarian.
The "scary guy" fence was the bad guy in "The Mask" with Jim Carrey. The actor's name is Peter Greene. He was also Zed in "Pulp Fiction"...the one who owned the motorcycle Bruce Willis' character took after the pawn shop scene.
He was also the main villain in Blue Streak, with Martin Lawrence. Pretty much played the exact same role in all of these films.
He was Zed in pulp fiction.
@@toonami99 He was also in the Mask his name was Zed
He was also in Pulp Fiction as Zippy
and Training Day.
Verbal is Kaiser Soze. “Convince me Keating is dead; convince me…” so Soze convinced them.
Best twist in cinema history. Hands down.
The directional camera unveiling tracking shot with the perfect unravelling of Spacey's walk from 'cripple' to normal is perfection movie making, even if you have figured out the ending! 👏😳
The Usual Suspects is considered by many to be one of the greatest movies ever made.
lol, maybe there'sa few people here and there who feel that way. But many? no, lol
It's a great movie, sure, but that's bs.
@@SegaGenesis92 Many people. There's a reason it always ranks very highly in best movie ever lists
@@voiceover2191 It's often regarded as one of the best movies ever
@@TequilaToothpick yes, Im sure a lot of random people rank it high. Never said they didnt. I just said its not a contender for best movie of all time.
The whole movie fooled everyone in the theater. You (Cassie) aren't not the only one who was fooled. It was so watchable to see your face features keep changing.🙂🙂🙂
One of the best twist endings ever
27 years later and I'm still floored by the movie.
Loved the reveal moment...watching you realize it was verbal was chilling fun!
There was no Verbal, it was Soze pulling the wool over your eyes.
@@dan_hitchman007 ...and then he was gone!
This and Fight Club were the two greatest “first time” watches. It was so awesome to have a perfectly executed twist dumped on you right at the end. Makes the modern “subversion of expectations” look like an elementary school play lol.
My two favorite movies of all time 🤘🤘
The Usual Suspects was the first film where I got to the end and said there was no way the misdirection/twist was that air-tight. So I immediately watched again, right then, knowing the story now and damn if it isn't one of the tightest plots I've ever seen on film. It's a near perfect movie with fantastic acting, storytelling and intrigue that still remains highly re-watchable. Amazing flick!
A fantastic film, i was blown away back in 1996 when i first saw it and had many discussions at the time, Cassie, your reactiobs and end summary piecing everything together was genius, your sister must watch this, her theory would be a fun watch
I literally stopped what I was doing to watch this for your reaction. It did not disappoint!
I think the ending works so well, because we have the dummy 'Keaton is Soze' twist beforehand, which makes a bit of sense but has a few holes that is completely plausible as an unsatisfying twist ending you'd get in a film. Most viewers will be a bit deflated or frustrated by this reveal, but then this makes the REAL twist always land, even if people have heard beforehand about the fact that there's a surprise ending.
It usually takes a couple of viewings to actually figure out what is going on. This is 1 of my all time favorite movies
Who knows what's going on? Almost all of it can be made up.
@@joelwillis2043 not the facts revealed by the police.
@@jgmediting7770 I claim almost all of it is made up and you provide examples of what is not made up. How in God's green earth did you refute what I said?
I would say that the one scene we know is 100% objectively what happened would be the opening scene where Keaton dies and that's it. The only other things we know are assorted facts revealed by the police and possibly the lineup
It's always fun to watch older movies and seeing young actors that go on to be famous.......like Giancarlo Esposito. AKA Gus from Breaking Bad and Moff Gideon from The Mandalorian.
yeah, it's funny because I saw this in the theatre when it came out and watched it again on DVD dozens of times and then watched Breaking Bad and didn't notice it was the same actor until I watched 'the usual suspects' again after watching Breaking Bad
Apocalypse Now is a good one for that: Lawrence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.
And of course Robert DeNiro in Brazil.
@@billymuellerTikTok That makes sense though, since he makes a much bigger dent in Breaking Bad. He is sort of a Keyser Söze figure, at least for a while. But he is not the one you remember from The Usual Suspects, especially not if you waited 13+ years to see him in BB. He is definitely memorable in BB though, enough to make you look for him in other material. A fella gotta touch your soul first in order to be easily recognized.
@@billymuellerTikTok I knew going into this movie that Giancarlo would be in it, and was actively looking for him throughout the entire movie and yet it took me multiple scenes to realize that the FBI agent was him
I had heard a while back, I think in an interview with some of the cast, that even they didn't know who, until after filming, who was actually Kaiser Sose. So when Gabriel Byrne, the actor who played "Keaton", found out his character wasn't Sose, he went to the director and thoroughly chewed him out.
yea he had them all believe they were Soze (except Benicio). Benicio knew his character was the toss away one that died early so he had fun and give his character the memorable accent of gibberish.
@@justinfalzon6854 so they filmed the interrogation scene with all actors??? That sounds like alot of extra work time and budget
@@dareal5401 I'm sorry I really don't understand your question. I recall hearing that Stephen Baldwin was also surprised it was Kevin Spacey as Soze, because he said he was also told HE was Soze.
@@dareal5401 No. But they didn't tell anyone who ACTUALLY was Keyser Soze. Only Kevin Spacey would have known as he filmed the end scene. Gabriel Byrne had filmed the scene with him as Keyser Soze for part of the story and so believed he was him.
And Byrne was perplexed why should he film a shot wearing Söze's coat and pointing the gun since he is not Söze. So they told him "Well, we liked you very much in Miller's crossing"
It was so deserving of its Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. I still envy that writer for coming up with this amazing story.
Love this film.
Among the BEST scripts ever written in the genre
Primal fear with Edward Norton will give you the chills, a great movie to react too. Not too many reactions to that epic film.
Yes, I've been missing a good reaction video to Primal Fear for a long time. Edward Norton is one of the best actors out there.
I hope so.
Yes freakin Roy! Norton played the role of his life.
That's the beauty of this film... You have to watch it again for sure!
One of my all-time favorite movies. Legend is, all of the actors got to ad lib the entire lineup scene.
Years ago I had to watch this movie several times to grasp it...glad you enjoyed it I knew it would send your head spinning...
Great reaction as Usual Cassie.
I saw this movie in film class. The whole time watching it I was like "oh this is okay I guess. I dont see the big deal." And then the twist happened and I lost my mind. Hands down one of the best films I have ever seen in my life.
And I love how it makes you look back at the entire movie and think "was literally ANY of it true?" We literally end up knowing absolutely nothing about what happened that night. It is so crazy to think about. The only thing we know is what his aid looks like
Some years ago, I was reading a true crime book written by a former detective (and written before The Usual Suspects came out) and he tells the story about how he'd lock 3 suspects up and figure out the guilty one by whoever can get to sleep. The story is pretty much word-for-word as it's told in the movie, so undoubtedly the writer (Christopher McQuarrie) read that book and did a ton of research on true crime. I wish I could remember the title!
It’s a well known saying from somewhere. Don’t know if it’s this book or predates it.
That's such a flawed method of thinking, though... what if more than one of them goes to sleep, or the wrong one sleeps because he knows he's innocent?
@@Kainlarsen the one who’s guilty is relieved of the stress they’ve been under prior to being caught. It’s a release. The ones who are innocent are now stressed when they weren’t before.
@@jgmediting7770 But what if they are both a realist and tired? Can't do anything about the situation so may as well sleep.
One of the best reactions I have seen. You just allowed me to see the movie for the first time again through your eyes. Definitely a "Mind Blown" moment.
One of the best twists ever. Great film with a great cast.
You are so fun to watch, your innocence is adorable and you wear your heart on your sleeve, keep it up,and I hope you never lose that innocence!
One of my favorite suspense movies .. it had me sitting at the edge of my seat. Loved it!!
ABSOLUTELY the best reaction at the very end!!! Your eyes went wide!
A good detective movie you can watch is Training Day. Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawk also Denzel Washington won a Oscar for his role.
I've been rewatching this movie for over 25 years.... and still find things!
26:07 “Oh, man. He’s good at this role.”
You said it, sister! Great reaction to one of the all-time great twist endings. ❤️
Subbed. 🎉🎉🎉 i love the usual suspects. The look on your face when the twist happened was perfect. I still preach this movie to ANYONE that has never seen it.
the word of mouth buzz when this movie came out was incredible. It became an instant cult classic.
I'd say instant classic. I think it's far too well known to be a "cult classic".
I love watching your videos. Because despite having not seen these movies, you are consistently and extremely accurate in predicting what happens in a lot of these movies. You are very smart and wise and observant. You miss a few things but it's amazing how quickly you catch onto stuff.
This used to be my favorite movie for such a long time, this an Lucky Number Sleven have two of the greatest twists I think. The moment he kicks his foot out at the end blew my mind back in the day.
One of the top five greatest endings in the history of cinema. Brilliant movie!
It is so worth rewatching. This is in my top 10 favorite movies of all time. And the lineup scene with the 5 guys reading the saying. That was actually them really laughing and the director decided to keep it in the movie because it was the best take. ❤️🔥😀👍
Supposedly, one of them broke wind, and they were laughing about that situation.
The look on your face was worth watching this by itself. It is wonderful seeing someone experience this movie is an immense pleasure.
"The Usual Suspects" is one of the best movies with a *real* twist!
So good! In the bonus features on the dvd, as someone commented before, none of the actors knew who Soze was until the end of reading the script. My favorite of the bonus features of the actors talking about making it was that in the line up at the beginning, they were all giggling because Benicio Del Toro (Fenster) kept farting and couldn’t stop. It was pure editing that made that scene work.
The Usual Suspects is in my top ten movies of all time. It's so well crafted. There were little clues that pointed to Verbal but then Singer would throw out some other clue that pointed away from him. Even in the making of the movie, nobody was clear on who was Kaiser Soze. Gabriel Byrne thought he was Kaiser. When showed up at the premiere he was shocked and pissed to find out Spacey was Kaiser. Bryan Singer had to calm him down.
This is hands down one of the best twist movies ever! Besides an excellent story you have brilliant acting, directing and editing. A definite rewatch. Many times over and you'll see new things on each one.
I stopped cooking my supper because I was dying to see your reaction to this! PLUS it had been such a long time since I had seen this myself. I forgot how awesome it was!
Great setup and great plan by Verbal. I was so surprised by the ending. Classic crime thriller!!
A bit of trivia about this film.
The first weekend that this was released in cinemas had a slightly different listing of the actors. Someone had slipped up BADLY! The original opening credits last entry read
"And Kevin Spacey as Kiezer Soze"
Thankfully someone noticed & this was VERY quickly rectified to list Spacey as Verbal.
Great reaction, Cassie (as always). Hope everyone is keeping well & having a great day
Too bad they did not fix the poster.
@@Matej_Sojka did they screw it up there AS WELL! 🤣😂🤣 Thanks for sharing that bit of trivia 🤜🏻
Now that you know Verbal is Soze, go back and watch when he is telling the back story of Soze when he went against the Hungarians and watch Verbal's eyes. The emotion. He's not telling a story of a third person he's reliving an emotion and event in his own life.
Guy driving car at end is soze, prove me wrong
eleven38 . . . _yawn_ . . .
@@lewstone5430 tired?
Also the look on Keaton's face in the beginning just before Soze kills him. Like, "of course."
But this whole thing never happened. it was just a story to scare people
The masterwork of the unreliable narrator trope. Great movie. Great reaction as always! Keep it up!
Ha ha 😂 at 29.05 you can literally see your mind being blown 😂
Greatest twist in cinema history. We can all hate Spacey for his personal life, but he made this film historically good. One of my favorite films ever.
The greatest plot twist in movie history. I was so excited waiting for your to see it. And yes, you need to watch again.
Again, Cassie’s ability to ‘get’ these complex storylines is really impressive. Another great reaction. plus also C = 10/10 in this video
But she's never got anything. Sje cant follow anything deeper than an episode of Tomas the tank engine.. Why are guys praising her every week? Shes like a 9 year old tryong to get movies. And shes never understanding what goes on, why is everyone sayong she's hood at getting stuff.? She and her sister are the worst at getting movies. They find ot hard to follow a Bond movie. Never met anyone like that. Stop praising her for something. Shrs a female yes, but dont praise her for that. Christ 🙄
I love this movie. Even after you know the twist it's still enjoyable to watch again. Great review.
This was/is a masterpiece of a movie, theres a reason its rated 39th on IMDB's greatest movies of all time. Brilliant.
This is my top 5 movie of all time. Love how everybody watching this for the first time gets chocked by the ending. But Cassie you actually predicted in the beginning that Verbal was the smart one. Loved the reaction !!
My college roommate spoiled the ending for me and oh man I was pissed lol so when I finally watched it, it was actually cool to know the twist and try to catch the clues along the way.
Spoiling the ending of this movie should be an actual crime punishable by a hefty fine or manual labor. 😂
Of all things, a SITCOM spoiled the ending for me. Granted, the sitcom came out years after the movie, but I hadn't seen the movie yet and was planning on watching it the next evening, but it still sucks the air out of the room to not be able to enjoy the twist as much.
@@joshcharlie13 to be fair, she felt absolutely awful. She apologized for days! She loved it so much and she really believed EVERYone had seen it (it had been out about a year at that point).
That's what the second and third watches are for
I love a good twist ending, and this is one of the best.
Best line...Cassie: "I do love that he loves his lawyer." Another great reaction, Cassie! ( :E
the look at the reveal of the ending, I have been there. I think most everyone can relate to the look of confusion and realization. great reaction!
Great reaction Cassie! Fun to watch this one with you - especially the final twist. Putting in a request for Zodiac or Memento next!
Her head would explode watching Memento!
Momento is such a pain in the ass to watch. LOL. I still love it though.
@@HernGeo there is a deluxe version dvd available that has a version of the film shown in true chronological order. very cool.
@@brianmyers4444 Nice. Very cool. I thought about doin it on my own but thats how far that went. 😂😂😂
This must have been my reaction the first time watching this. It definitely took a rewatch.
I remember watching when I was younger, I always had a suspicion it was him all along, but when it hit me it still blew my mind...
Fun fact- Keyser Söze roughly translates into “King Talk Too Much”. Verbal told us he was Keyser Söze from the very beginning.
“…but he was the smartest of us all.” Truer words have never been said 😂
It's brilliant because they tell you who he is all through the movie Soza means Talks too much
The very first line Keaton says is, sarcastically, "I can't feel my legs...... Keyser" as in.......I'm a cripple..... verbal
McManus says "strangest thing"
How protected verbal was
Soze literally MEANS talks too much
If you watch.....look at his energy when he tells the tale of his family
When he's leaving the station he gets a gold watch and Lighter
Watching someone react to this film is like watching it for the first time.
Magnificent film. I've seen it many times and that final scene never fails to give me chills.
Fun fact: Söze is part of a Turkish phrase which means "One who talks too much", i.e. Verbal. :D
Some is true, some is mixed with the scenery just to get through the interrogation. Kaiser truly killed his family to take back power. Kaiser brought that group together in order to take out a witness, and once that group was killed, he’d be free.
That reaction at the end was golden!! :):)
Not every movie needs to be rewatched, but this is one of them. And sometimes even when you think you've got it all down, you see or hear something you didn't see the 4 times you already saw it. Love those kinds of movies. Like "The Sixth Sense" or "Pulp Fiction", it's so good to rewatch, watching those parts that seemed one way when you watched it the first time, knowing what the truth is, you see what those scenes really mean. And the movie "Primer", that's one you have to watch a bunch of times. It's slow, because it's a lot to take in. Put that on the list.
Ms Popcorn this movie was a life lesson in strategy. Now you are wise to the world and deception and misdirection. It's like the shell game, it keeps you guessing where the pea is but in the end there IS no pea. Kevin Spacey is brilliant in this and LA confidential he was also quite good. He might be a pervert but is a great actor.
My favorite movie of all time. I still get chills from that ending. Even watching this video gave me goosebumps!
One of the best stories, scripts ever. There really is no way to guess what's going to happen and definitely no way to anticipate the ending. GREAT movie, one of my favorites.
In this genre, it's one of the most well known, most praised films. Keyser Soze has become a sort of meme.
You need to watch all the behind the scenes on the dvd now. Your mind will be blown all over when they explain to you how you see one movie the first time, and a totally different movie the second time you watch it. There’s also some great stories , particularly when they were all laughing in the line up.
To this day I STILL get the chills at the ending. I wasn't spoiled either first time I saw it. The movie is absolutely brilliant.
Lol. That dead-eyed reaction at the end was THE BEST.
My exwife hated I could predict what was going to happen in a movie. This was one of the few that had me perplexed.
this was the best one ever. saw it in the theatre when it came out, NO ONE knew what happened until it was revealed. everyone gave the movie a standing ovation (even though there was no one from the movie in the theatre)... the only movies that had this much of a reaction were 'We Were Soldiers' (everyone left the theatre silently and crying) and 'The Blair Witch Project' (all the teenagers were staring at the screen with white blank faces and their hands gripping the seat in front of them because they thought it was real).
The scary guy you said was invoking fear in you was the evil cop in Pulp Fiction.
To see your reaction to one of my top 5 movies of all time will be fun, thanks!
Must resist forwarding directly to the twist to see her reaction!
I love this movie.
My ex-wife never saw it until I made her. 10 min into it, she turned to me and said Kevin Spacey is Kaiser Sozei.
I was blown away.
That's not the reason I married her, but I was always awed at how she could see through movie plots.
Anyway, this movie is awesome.
You should’ve heard the theater erupt in shock and surprise when me and the wife saw it!!! The entire theater was dumbstruck……….and then it was brought up in Derry girls? I was delighted!! What a awesome movie
Maybe my favorite movie. And see...when you look back on it, you understand more than you realized. But it takes at least one more watch, knowing what you know now, to really put it together. This might be one to watch with Carley and watch her work through it.
that's a 're-watch,' I'd really 'like' to re-watch!
😂😂😂Yes! Your face totally mimics mine the first time I saw this movie! 😳. It’s one of my all time favorites! And yes you will NEED a second viewing! Thanks Cassie for reacting to this movie!
The movie shows why he has the name Verbal. He can TALK. And he can make up stories on the fly from anything he sees around him, and he can make it completely believable. Kevin Spacey is worse than a creep, but he was BRILLIANT in this movie.
One could say Spacey wasn't even acting
Wow watching your reaction at the end gave me goosebumps! I wish I could watch it for the first time again! Great Video!
I'm so glad I never knew there was a big twist ending the first time I saw this years ago.
I `m glad to see you react to this movie...One of my favorite movies.