THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995) Movie Reaction & Commentary | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

This is not a movie. It’s a magic trick.

I can't say how many times I've watched this movie, it never gets old. LOVE the writing, the plot, the ending. And salute to you, Sarah, for guessing early on who Verbal really was!

"Round up the usual suspects." is a line from Casablanca which inspired the title for this. It's also a genuinely classic movie.

The Usual Suspects is a flat-out chess match between Agent Kujan and Verbal Kint. It’s a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in an enigma. Verbal’s improvised story in the police interrogation was so brilliant that you have to question the reality of everything you saw in the movie. It’s an amazing film which I’ve seen numerous times, I see something I didn’t notice before every time I see it. Great reaction, folks.

The Clues: One is Verbal's relative position on the night of the attack. He is hiding behind a stack of material on the dock. When Hockney is killed, Verbal would have been the closest person to him. In his testimony, shown in flashback, Verbal supposedly takes cover behind some large spools of rope on the dock as he observes Soze on the boat. However, when the camera zooms in on this area from the opposite side after the explosion, no one is seen peering through the ropes. In the opening scene, we see Keyser Söze look at a gold pocket watch and produce a gold cigarette lighter. Later, in the scene where the gang threatens Kobayashi, we see Verbal wearing a similar watch. He also collects this watch, along with a gold cigarette lighter, as he leaves the police station, despite having earlier demonstrated his inability to use a similar lighter during his questioning. In the interrogation, Verbal comments that when he gets dehydrated his urine becomes thick and lumpy due to a kidney condition. In the opening scene when Keyser Söze urinates on the fire, his urine is thick and lumpy. When Agent Kujan begins to suggest that Keaton might be the one behind the hit on the docks, Verbal can be seen starting to smile. When Kujan comes around from behind Verbal and looks him in the face, the smile disappears, and Verbal continues to pretend loyalty to Keaton. During the interrogation throughout the movie, although it is easy to miss upon a first viewing, Verbal is seen glancing for a second or two away from Kujan or over Kujan's shoulder at the wall behind him in full view of wanted posters and advertisement flyers of names as Verbal is clearly making up the names of the mysterious associates and contacts such as "Redfoot" and "Kobayashi" when Kujan's questioning becomes more intense as it revealed that Verbal Kint is making up (on the spur-of-the-moment) aliases of his co-conspirators as he goes along. Keyser Söze is described by Verbal as being of mixed Turkish/German heritage. "Söze" is Turkish for "talks too much", or "verbal". "Keyser" sounds like the German word "Kaiser", meaning "emperor", while "Kint" sounds like "king." Director Bryan Singer has referred to the name as essentially meaning "The king that talks too much." Finally, one might simply recognize that when Söze whispers, "How ya doin' Keaton?", at the start of the film, the voice really is that of Verbal/Kevin Spacey. After being thrown on the ground Verbal slips, "I did kill Keaton," though Kujan is shouting too loud to hear, and Verbal is able to correct himself by saying "I did see Keaton get shot." Also, when they are listening to the men before the attack on the boat Keaton speculates that they are speaking Russian, Verbal correctly identifies the language as Hungarian, something Soze would obviously know. Also is the whole story made up? The answer is both yes and no. Verbal tells Kujan the story as if he was simply Verbal Kint and not Keyser Söze. Verbal tells Kujan that it was his plan to rob the corrupt police officers without killing anybody. Then they fenced the goods to Redfoot, who then offered them the next job of robbing Saul Berg, which was set up by Kobayashi, etc...., which finally led to the events at the end of the film, leaving Verbal the only survivor. When pushed by Kujan, Verbal is adamant that Dean Keaton was his friend and that he wasn't the mastermind behind all the events. When pushed harder by Kujan and given all the facts, Verbal breaks down and admits that they all followed Keaton from the beginning, and that he planned and executed everything. At the very least, the names of those involved, such as Redfoot the fence and Kobayashi the lawyer, were clearly invented by Verbal on the spot (to cover up the real names of his co-conspirators), and his descriptions of where he was when the others got killed during the attack on the boat all appear to be untrue. However, we see that the person who he referred to as "Kobayashi" was real, as he picks Verbal up at the end. So it's likely that most of the events that happened were true, but certain aspects may have been fabricated or several of the names changed in order to keep Kujan from being able to trace anyone who had actually been involved with Verbal, thus preserving Söze's identity. For example, the incident when "Kobayashi" meets with the five of them, gives them their police files, and gives them the assignment of robbing the ship of the supposed cocaine and money, was likely true. In addition, the robbery of Saul Berg and the New York's Finest Taxi Service, and the fact that all five men were rounded up by the police for a lineup, were certainly true, as such facts could be easily confirmed with a few calls to the LAPD and the NYPD. It should also be noted that one of the keys to lying well is to stick as closely to the truth as possible. In this case, it's likely that many of the broad outlines of the story which Verbal told are true... while certain aspects and names of other people in the story were untrue.

The Usual Suspects is one of the greatest neo-noir mystery thriller movies of all time. The story, performance's, music, direction, screenplay, and cinematography was outstanding and incredible. To this day that twist still gives me chills and goosebumps. 😰😱 It was decent. To this day I still watch it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old.😍👍💯😎

Kevin Spacey's character works his way into the group. All the events happened but he changed the names and embellished the story to deflect and get away with it.

Wow, she called that one early! Great reaction.

literally one of my favorite movies ever. ive loved this movie since the first time i watched it "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing everybody he doesnt exist"

I would recommend "LA Confidential" , another great crime movie. I'm enjoying your reactions so far, keep up the good work :)

Movie is over 25 years old, and it still leaves the audience with questions. I don’t think anyone can watch this and feel resolved.

You need to think back to when Verbal was left alone in the Police Office, and he was staring straight ahead, and you wondered - just for a second - what he was looking at... Now you know... And all things considered, "Verbal" was the perfect name for his character...

One of my favorite movies. Verbal mixed truth and lies to misdirect the audience and police. He did round up the usual suspects as a means to recruit his team. He obviously convinced his 'team' to take huge risks of raiding that ship, but we really don't know what went down up until that point. He could have used his associate (Kobayoshi) to influence everyone as he said, but we don't know for sure. Verbal said in the police station that police often look for the simplest explanation and never consider any mastermind. Once Verbal saw Agent Kuyon was fixated on Ketan he molded the story in that direction. A really good movie. A very good heist movie with suspense and humor is Art of the Steal (2013).

You definitely need to check out The Game by Fincher, if you are on board for 90s thrillers. The ending will blow your mind. Twice.

Nice. Another shining example of why the 90's were the best decade for film.

Yeah you nailed it. I would love to see this one for the first time again. Such a great story. Also they made it on a small budget, it's just the writing that makes it great. A classic...

I haven't seen this in a while and it was awesome reexperiencing it through your eyes. If you want to continue with the 90s crime thrillers I recommend Danny Boyle's Shallow Grave starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston. Great movie with some great characters and performances.

30:01 sarah thinking "i should be a detective. i could be a detective."

great movie - saw it when it came out in the theater and everyone gave it a standing ovation at the end - no one had a clue... everyone guesses it right now because they are so used to twist endings, but this was the movie that started the twist endings in the 90's... then every movie started getting them. just like Die Hard spawned Speed (Die Hard on a Bus), Air Force 1 (Die Hard on a plane), Under Siege (Die Hard on a boat)

Great reaction. I highly recommend watching LA Confidential and Heat. Those are real good crime dramas.

Really enjoying your reactions guys! You should check out La Confidential and Heat if you wanna carry on with your 90s crime films. Both classics. Best wishes from Ireland.

you picked it up quickly... when I watched it I was still in shock and didn't believe it had to watch it again.

Still one of the greatest twists of all time.

Söze is so 🐐he was present to his own planned takeover assassination and even spent an afternoon playing a game of "dare to self-implicate" with the NYPD 🔥

Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) thought that his character *was* Soze up until he saw the premier. He was rather pissed when he saw the ending.

Kudos Sarah you are the first reactor I have seen who guessed Verbal was Keyser Sose. 😉

Good work Sarah!

To really be appreciated, movies like this should be watched twice, and with friends. Theories, twists and realizations. Snatch is another great mobster movie. However, there is an older movie (1972) called Sleuth with Michail Caine and Lawrence Olivier, that deserves your attention. It's a slow burn, but still a burn.

6:04 "What's he looking at?" What indeed.

Almost nothing about this story is true. We don't actually know how the hit really came about or went down. Verbal only took what cops already knew, spun a completely fabricated story to explain it "from his perspective", and let the cops fill in the blanks. To this day it's one of the best written crime dramas ever. Even if you had a hunch Verbal was Soze, you couldn't be sure, and the closer the movie was to its big finale, the more doubts it planted in your mind, until you were so confused you doubted yourself if you really thought Verbal was Soze. Brilliant move from start to finish.

I had that same look on my face the first time I watch this movie

1:48 "it's time for bed" sarah working on a catchphrase

Taking requests? 1. Enemy of the State 2. Snatch 3. Raising ARizona (same writer/director team as Fargo) Fun to watch with you!

The problem with the reveal in this movie is just what you found - if you know or suspect there's a hook, you'll figure it out early. In my case, the movie was recommended to me by a friend, who said "I won't tell you anything about the mivie, but you'll love the ending." That got me looking for the hook from the start, and as soon as the "Who is .." started, I knew it was going to be Verbal.

Fun reaction! 😊

One of the greatest twists in movie history by far...😉

"Basic" with Travolta and Samuel Jackson would be right up your alley. You really should check it out.

Great job! Other movies I'd like to see you do, if you haven't seen them already: Rear Window | Psycho | North by Northwest | Aliens | Predator | John Carpenter's The Thing

A classic movie; not just for the twist, but for the excellent writing and brilliant performances all around. Kevin Spacey may be kind of a scumbag, but he really is an amazing actor (another fantastic and woefully underrated film of his is "Swimming With Sharks", when he actually plays a giant scumbag). It's a Dark Comedy about Hollywood in the 90's.

That was great. Another film from my top 5 or so lol. If you're looking for recommendations, I would suggest Cool Hand Luke or One Flew Over The Cuckoo"s Nest. ✌️☝❤

Wonderful movie! End scene is world class

Hey Guys! Great movie. If you like the (Coen Brothers) since you did Fargo check out *“The Big Lebowski”* and *”No Country For Old Men”* 😎

Great movie! Funny trivia, they all startedaughing during the lineup because one of them (Del Toro iirc) farted during the shot and it smelled awful!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Almost everything Bryan Singer has directed has been top notch.

First of all when I say love your channel and to keep up the good work and here’s a little something that I learned watching this movie. Hopefully I can explain this right in the movie verbal with explaining about Kaiser Soze and which she said that he was Turkish and that his father was German well. The word Kaiser in German means king, but can also mean Kent and the word Sose is Turkish for to talk, which also means verbaland that’s how you know verbal Kent is Kaiser Soze 30:31

This movie was amazing. Here are some other amazing movies: 6th Sense, The Others, The Village, Vanilla Sky, Donnie Darko, Predestination, Jacob's Ladder, Kpax, Shutter Island, Before I Wake.

25:44 the moment i hit notifications

Great reaction guys !!! One of my all time favorite movies. If you enjoyed this one, you HAVE TO view and react to "Primal Fear", (Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton). PF is another great one !!

A similar thriller movie I highly recommend is Spanish Prisoner. Same kind of keeping you guessing.

Awesome guys just found your reaction channel and I love your lets play channel.. 90s crime is awesome but I would absolutely recommend the godfather of them all .....1970s godfather and godfather 2 if you haven't seen them you gotta ...exceptional film making.

At 25:40, basically, this whole movie was a giant stall for time. The truth is that Kyzer Soskey (Spelling?) was in the police station. So he had his lawyer pull some up on high police connections to get him full immunity to a simple weapons charge. Then the Lawyer, gets done up in makeup with a special team of professional doctors and claims he doesn't speak English. No one looks at the lawyer's face, because it's half burned up, and it's believed he'll die soon. So while the lawyer stalls, pretending to be an eye witnes, Kyzer makes up a tale that connects all the actual events, in such a way that it all points to someone else that he knows the cops desperately wants to put away. He makes up the names of unimportant people, but plugs up all the loose ends, letting the detective draw his own conclusions. TRULY, I think the only time Verbal screws up, but the cop doesn't catch it. The cop calls Verbal stupid, and Verbal smiles, because he knows he's got the cop on the hook now. It's the only time Verbal's mask slips at all. He runs out the clock until he can post bail. By that time the "Lawyer/witnes" has "Died". They move his body to the morgue, Which like most morgues, has a back door/drop off point, for messier cadavers. The lawyer gets up, strips off the makeup, and drives over to meet Kyzer just outside the precinct, they drive off. And Kyzer escapes.

The famous plot twist at the end, actually negates the entire mystery at the center of the story, of who is Keyser Soze, it negates the entire story, really. (If the boat 'heist' was an elaborate ruse to kill the one guy who could ID Soze, why hang around long enough to get caught by the cops? Furthermore, spend a few more hours in interrogation, WITH TOTAL IMMUNITY, which negated him having to tell a 'story' in the first place. A story that makes all the events in the film, possibly not real,, while unbeknownst to him a survivor accurately identifies him in a sketch. Had the cop held him for just 1 minute more, he'd be toast. A man as careful as the legendary Soze, would never chance it.) But,............... the script is so much fun, the wall-to-wall brilliant performances of Spacey, and Del Toro in particular. Add breathless pacing, the tenseness, and above all the MYSTERY and it easily overrides, and allows you to forgive the hole-ridden plot twist. This movie is super fun.

You can interpret this movie different ways. My theory is Verbal is NOT Soze but he uses the legend of Soze. As was said earlier Soze is a ghost story. My idea is that both Verbal and the man playing Kobayashi are long con artists. It is stated earlier in the movie that Verbal is a con artist.

The easiest person to manipulate is someone who thinks they’re better than you lol.

Wait, I'm confused....so he wasn't part of a barbershop quartet in Skokie, Illinois?

For another great crime flick starring Gabriel Byrne (Keaton), checkout Miller’s Crossing which was directed, written and produced by the Coen brothers.

Soze got his revenge and he got away with the $91 million.

Remember, nothing between the lineup and the testimony can be trusted. Verbal might not have known Keaton, etc

Hi nice reaction, too bad you saw momento first it's a good movie but this is a classic. As is, LA Confidential 👍 how you get to react to that as well✌️

This was a good r action guys. The Sting (1973) Is a good watch

Great reaction & The {Well executed} unreliable narrator is always worth noting lol👍

(SPOILERS) The ending to this movie is so awesome. I still remember my reaction almost thirty years ago when it was revealed he pulled his whole story from things in the room and on the bulletin board.

Everyone's first reaction, wow, wait a minute....

Best ending to a movie ever. In my opinion

Chazz a badass in this.

29:46 i was very confused by the pause 🙃

What you saw in the movie is what happened he didnt make that part up but ofcourse used fake names and made it seem like he was a bystander but mostly it was all true.

OK... time for you guys to do some David Fincher - Se7en - The Game - Fight Club

Thats why interrogation rooms are empty and bland to stop suspects from embellishing their stories/testimonies.

Verbal, the man with the plan.

Should watch 1997 movie "The Game".

I don't know if you've seen Pulp Fiction but if not it's a must see.

Keyser SOZE!

Based on what you've reacted to I think you're gonna like Mission Impossible (1996, the first one). I love Braveheart n Hacksaw Ridge and would like you to react to them but they might not be up your alley.

Wrist watch... In the opening scenes, we see the mystery man looking at that watch... Then again, at the police station, we see that watch. Then he picks it up and puts it on his hand... Also, if you like this kind of twists in the end, "Shutter Island" has two of them... One is somewhat predictable, but the final one...

She figures it out about 20 mins into video.

Guys shutter island Jacob’s ladder the others seven fight club on top priority basis without any delay and the reaction is really good……….. keep growing

25:06 the moment i scribed

Kaiser Soze = King of Talk Kent is Old English for king. So Verbal(talkative) Kent told the investigator who he was at the begining of the movie. Cool, huh?

The Spanish Prisoner 1997, watch it.

Soze the man is supposed to be Turkish. "Soze" is the Turkish word for "verbal".

I guess you guys have never seen Casablanca. its where the phrase usual suspects comes from.

28:32 so the movie can happen 🙂

All those people die to cover his identity and in the end it was for nothing, they know who he is and what he looks like now.

The point of the movie is that Soze is a master manipulator and he proves it by manipulating the audience.

This was a good movie

Please watch and react to No Country For Old Men….if you haven’t already seen it.

Please react on some Indian movies like 3 idiots , PK , Dangal , kumbalangi nights , Bangalore days , Andhadhun , Mathu vadalara , Kaithi , Agent sai srinivasa athreya , Queen, Barfi , Asuran , Visaranai ,Drishyam. Please react on at least one of them . You will love them .

I don't think verbal was actually soze. I think it's more likely Kobayashi is the real soze and verbal was a lieutenant. The big guy wouldn't have to go in personally and certainly wouldn't want to stick around for the cops to arrest him especially if the whole point is to remain unrecognizable. I mean now several cops can identify him and they have a sketch. I imagine he is smarter than that.

SPOILERS Excellent guess. 🙌🏻 Unrelated, I wonder what Keaton was actually like lol. Of course it’s fiction, so who knows! XD I would assume he appeared more compassionate than he was in real life since “Verbal” was making up a whole fan fiction about his persona admiring him. Lol.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! Even Gabriel Byrne (Keaton) thought that he was Soze and got into a fight with one of the filmmakers during a screening! Decades later, it's still a trip, even if Spacey gives it a cringe vibe once in a while.

From what I can tell most of what he said was true except for a few names and the random comments about his past. He changed the names to protect his accomplices and he mentioned random past memories to make himself seem less like a mysterious stranger while making his Verbal character more believable as the man who talks too much. I believe most of the groups adventure actually happened and he became Verbal to make sure they got the job done. When they did he killed them. This is how he knew everything about them. He's always on the inside.

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist." Very few see it coming and, out of those reactors, a couple are shocked they were right. As an aside, I keep an eye on the "First Time Watching" search terms here on RU-vid. Keep those words in the title of your videos so I can find them. Fun Fact: In an interview, Kevin Spacey revealed that Bryan Singer managed to convince every one of the major actors that they were Keyser Soze. When first screened for the company of actors, Gabriel Byrne was so stunned when he found that he wasn't Keyser Soze that he stormed off into the parking lot and argued with Singer for a half hour.

Must watch " BRICK" and another movie ... "BUG"!!! trust me......

Great reaction! Rarely do people catch that it may be Verbal so early. Really enjoy seeing this through other people’s eyes for their first time. If you enjoy this type of movie, you should really check out The Game (1997) with Micheal Douglas. New subscriber here.

Good job. You understood most of the movie after that ending. Not easy.

If you go back and watch the scene where he's giving the back story of Soze (himself) it is the one part of the film where it kind of gives it up. Look at the emotion on Spacey's face. He's almost shaking. He's reliving an event, he's not telling the story of someone he had just heard about. It was his own back story.

Good job tweakin' thosr sound levels. That's a much, much better EQ. Nice reaction, i enjoyed that. I'd love to catch your reaction to MATCHSTICK MEN (2003) Nicholas Cage, Alison Lohman, and Sam Rockwell. I think you'd like it -

How about something completely off the subject, I give you "Joe's Apartment". It is funny and gross at the same time. Take a chance on it...

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