directed by: Bryan Singer
written by: Christopher McQuarrie
starring: Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Chazz Palminteri
seen on 20th January, 2019
-"The man with the plan."
It's about as cool as a fireside story. Just after it finishes you might think "oh wow!", but if you start thinking about it for just a moment all the shapes start fading, the smoke and mirrors become apparent and the world within the story stops making any sense.
I'd say the trouble is that Bryan Singer is probably the most overrated bastard, I mean director, I can think of, that is until I start saying it about somebody else. The story is very simple and has no other atributes than being cool and Singer still fails to 1) ground it in reality 2) populate it with characters with believable connections 3) make it self-aware.
The film seems so outdated by concentrating so hard on this one gimmick up its sleeve. It forgets that we have to watch it even before the ending and that our attention should be misdirected and manipulated to look for something starkly different than the point it eventually makes.
The film seems so outdated by concentrating so hard on this one gimmick up its sleeve. It forgets that we have to watch it even before the ending and that our attention should be misdirected and manipulated to look for something starkly different than the point it eventually makes.
P.S.: Similarly mainstream films that do this misdirection the right way are for example The Prestige or even American Beauty to stay relevant. Try comparing these films and it won't be hard to see that The Usual Suspects are about "nothing".
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