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The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]
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| Genre | Action & Adventure |
| Format | Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled |
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| Language | English, Spanish, French |
| Runtime | 1 hour and 46 minutes |
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Usual Suspects, The (RPKG/BD)
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Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamored of its own cleverness to make much sense. After all, what are we to make of a final scene that renders the entire movie obsolete? Half the fun of The Usual Suspects is the debate it provokes and the sheer pleasure of watching its dynamic cast in action, led (or should we say, misled) by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as the club-footed con man who recounts the saga of enigmatic Hungarian mobster Keyser Söze. Spacey's in a band of thieves that includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, and Benicio Del Toro, all gathered in a plot to steal a large shipment of cocaine. The story is told in flashback as a twisted plot being described by Spacey's character to an investigating detective (Chazz Palmintieri), and The Usual Suspects is enjoyable for the way it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its surprise ending. Whether that ending will enhance or extinguish the pleasure is up to each viewer to decide. Even if it ultimately makes little or no sense at all, this is a funny and fiendish thriller, guaranteed to entertain even its vocal detractors. --Jeff Shannon
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.48 x 5.24 x 6.68 inches; 2.4 Ounces
- Item model number : 2200
- Director : Various
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 46 minutes
- Release date : May 14, 2019
- Actors : Various
- Dubbed: : English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Metro Goldwyn Mayer
- ASIN : B00000F214
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #16,345 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #508 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #1,912 in Action & Adventure Blu-ray Discs
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Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, a Lesser Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, and hey, there’s a really young Gus Fring! And in any movie, when Pete Postlethwaite shows up, you have to settle in and enjoy him. Even in the otherwise leaden and cheerless “Inception”. He’s a joy to watch, especially here doing a sort of strangled middle-European/Far East accent.
It’s a brilliant cast. But above the rest in a bravura performance, Kevin Spacey.
Sure, we all know by now that he’s a creep, but wow, can that creep act! If I had to choose between “Se7en” and this one, I’d have to give the “Suspects” top billing. Spacey is on screen in almost every scene, while in “Se7en” he’s a shadowy menace for most of the movie. Sly, funny, glib, toying with the cops, he’s really something to watch.
You almost need to watch “The Usual Suspects” a second time just to get straight what our unreliable narrator is telling us, and to guess how much is total invention. And a third time to appreciate what actors like Benicio Del Toro and Kevin Pollack do with their few lines. And maybe the fourth time to admire Bryan Singer’s framing and pacing. There’s hardly a wasted second in this compact thriller, a trait I’ve come to admire more and more compared to the bloated running times and shameless padding even routine shoot-em-ups now indulge in. No mawkish sentimentality, minimal character development, just enough voice-over to keep things moving at a good clip. Singer went on to make some of those bloated running times, but on this one, his production was sleek, compact, as close to perfect as a movie needs to get.
Plot holes? Well, for a gang of ruthless dangerous gangsters, those Hungarians sure were oblivious and easy to mow down. And if you’ve ever been on a largish freighter, you will be amazed at the maze of compartments and spaces and places to hide contraband. Byrne and company could have searched for a day and not found the prize. And I’m doubtful if even Keyser Soze could really interrupt the flow of flame along the fuse by a remarkably accurate micturition.
But who cares? The plot is a device of precisely machined interlocking parts that shouldn’t be too closely scrutinized lest we lose the pleasure of its working. “The Usual Suspects” is a fine bloody valentine to the art of filmmaking.
If this is your first time to watch it, I sort of envy you the pleasure of watching it unfold, especially now that it’s old enough that younger people might be un-spoiled. If it’s the second or fifth time, it’s still a good way to waste a brisk 1 ¾. And if you’re ever picking coffee beans in Guatemala, know that you can’t really make coffee from green beans. They have to be fermented, then roasted. Agent Kujan should’ve known that, even if he’d never been to Skokie, Illinois.
Originally released on DVD by MGM in 1999, then later on Blu-ray, though with different extras, now all of them have been finally assembled together, with new interviews and audio commentary as well. Looking splendid in this restored 4K version, the definitive release. Stylish, clever, well-acted film with a memorable twist ending only suffers in terms of having no good guys to root for, limiting any emotional involvement, though of course that isn't the story's point. Comes with a slipcover.
But the point is that the spoiler did not ruin the movie, which is about more than just a solution to a mystery. The key is the great acting, by everyone involved. Kevin Spacey, certainly, as the mild mannered "gimp" of a con-man, turns in one of his best performances. But everyone is excellent, Gabriel Byrne as the corrupt ex-cop, the whole gang which he has collected, and Chazz Palminteri as the detective who keeps on probing, knowing that there is some key fact almost within reach.
And that means that I can watch this and enjoy it more than once. It's true that, as with most movies, on watching it again, there are logical questions about the plot which you can't put out of your mind, but which don't necessarily have good answers. The resolution, although clever, may not work quite the way it's meant to. But then, few if any films are perfect in that respect. Take this for what it is, and it's very enjoyable. And if you recommend it to someone who hasn't seen it, do not tell them, well, you know.
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Als 27 Menschen bei einer Schießerei (und anschließender Explosion) im Hafen von Los Angeles sterben, sind die Hintergründe für die örtlichen Behörden unklar. Astronomische Geldsummen (91 Millionen Dollar), schwer bewaffnete Gangster – alles deutet auf einen Drogendeal im ganz großen Stil hin. Alles, bis auf die Tatsache, dass am Tatort keinerlei Drogen gefunden wurden. Zollinspektor Kujan erhofft sich von der Vernehmung der beiden einzigen Überlebenden Informationen zur Lösung des Rätsels. Stück für Stück erschließt sich ihm bei der Befragung ein komplexes PUZZLE aus Verrat, Erpressung, Korruption und Mord...
"Wenn es ein Drogendeal war, wo ist der Stoff? Wenn es ein Mord war, in wessen Auftrag?"
Mit Gabriel Byrne (D'Artagnan in Der Mann in der eisernen Maske, mit Schwarzenegger in End of Days) als Dean Keaton ("Ich hörte, du wärst tot." - "Da hast du richtig gehört!"),
Stephen Baldwin (kleiner Bruder von Alec und William Baldwin) als Michael McManus ("Es gibt NICHTS, was wir nicht schaffen!"),
Benicio del Toro (Sicario, Sin City, Snatch: Schweine und Diamanten, Oscar-Gewinner 2001 für Traffic: Macht des Kartells, Nominierung 2004 für 21 Gramm) als Fred Fenster ("Danach was ich höre ist Soze so eine Art METZGER, der größte durchgeknallte Metzger überhaupt!"),
Kevin Pollack (Lt. Sam Weinberg in Eine Frage der Ehre, mit Byrne in End of Days) als Todd Hockney ("Ich kann beweisen, dass du in der Nacht des Überfalls in Queens warst!" - "Ist nicht wahr... Ich WOHNE in Queens! Ist dir das von alleine eingefallen, Einstein? Habt ihr jetzt 'nen Haufen Schimpansen auf die Sache angesetzt?")
und Kevin Spacey (Golden Globe 2015 für 65 Folgen House of Cards, Sieben, K-Pax, Das Leben des David Gale, Oscar-Gewinner 2000 für American Beauty und 1996 für seine Rolle hier) als Verbal Kint ("Eigentlich heiße ich Roger. Man sagt, ich rede zu viel.").
"Ich hab dem Staatsanwalt schon alles erzählt!" - "Bleib hier, und wir beschützen dich!"
In weiteren Rollen Chazz Palminteri (In den Straßen der Bronx, Oscar-Nominierung 1995 für Bullets Over Broadway) als Special Agent David Kujan, US-Zollbehörde ("Wann wird seine Kaution gestellt?" - "Vielleicht in zwei Stunden, wenn nicht früher." - "Vorher will ich noch zu ihm!"),
Dan Hedaya (Der Wolf hetzt die Meute, Phantom Kommando) als Sgt. Jeffrey Rabin ("Der Junge hat gerichtlich volle Immunität!"),
Giancarlo Esposito (Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad und Better Call Saul) als FBI-Agent Jack Baer ("Schickt einen Dolmetscher für Ungarisch!"),
Suzy Amis (Titanic, seit 2000 mit Regisseur James Cameron verheiratet) als Strafverteidigerin und Keatons Freundin Edie Finneran,
Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction, Die Maske, Der Diamanten-Cop) als McManus Abnehmer Redfoot ("Seid ihr interessiert an einem neuen Job?")
und Pete Postlethwaite (Dragonheart, Vergessene Welt: Jurassic Park, Inception, Oscar-Nominierung 1994 für Im Namen des Vaters, starb 2011 im Alter von 64 Jahren) als Anwalt Kobayashi ("Mein Auftraggeber bedarf Ihrer Dienste, Gentlemen. Ein Auftrag. Ein Tag Arbeit. Äußerst gefährlich. Es steht nicht zu erwarten, dass Sie es alle überleben, aber jene von Ihnen, die es tun, werden sich 91 Millionen Dollar teilen können, so wie Sie es für angemessen halten.")
"Wer ist Ihr Boss?" - "Ich arbeite für Keyser Soze."
Regie führte im Jahr 1995 mit einem Budget von 6 Mio. $ (Originaltitel: THE USUAL SUSPECTS) in nur 35(!) Drehtagen der 29-jährige US-Amerikaner Bryan Singer (X-Men 1+2, X-Men: Zukunft ist Vergangenheit & Apocalypse, Superman Returns, Operation Walküre: Das Stauffenberg-Attentat).
Das oscarprämierte Drehbuch schrieb Singers High-School-Kumpel, der 27-jährige Christopher McQuarrie (The Tourist, Jack Reacher, Edge of Tomorrow, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation & Fallout). Singer selbst bezeichnete die viel gepriesene Erzählweise in seinem Film als Mischung aus Billy Wilders FRAU OHNE GEWISSEN (1944, mit Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson) und Akira Kurosawas RASHOMON (1950, mit Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō).
"Keaton hat sehr oft gesagt: Ich glaube zwar nicht an Gott, aber ich fürchte mich vor ihm.
Ich persönlich glaube an Gott – und das Einzige, wovor ich mich fürchte... ist KEYSER SOZE!"
_Fazit: 101 Minuten KULTFILM und aufwändig in mehreren Rückblenden strukturierter (Neunziger Jahre) THRILLER, der anhand einer Vernehmung die Hintergründe einer blutigen Schießerei mit 27 Toten aufdeckt. Einer der genialsten Filme, die ich je gesehen habe. Für mich 5/5***** Verdächtige, die es faustdick hinter den Ohren haben, Note 1
"Die Schlusssequenz gehört unbestritten zu den besten und intelligentesten Momenten des Kinos, die Hollywood je zustande brachte." – Filmstarts.de
Der Film gewann 1996 zwei OSCARS: für das beste Original-Drehbuch (Christopher McQuarrie) und den besten Nebendarsteller (Kevin Spacey).
Sollte Ihnen der Film gefallen haben, könnte Ihnen eventuell auch BASIC (2003) mit John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson (dem Pulp-Fiction-Duo ;-) gefallen.
EXTRAS: Audiokommentar von Regisseur Singer & Drehbuchautor McQuarrie, Stab & Besetzung (Filmografien), Kinotrailer 2:20.
Bildformat: 2.35:1 (16:9 Widescreen), Sprache/Ton: Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Untertitel: Deutsch, Englisch, Russisch (und vier weitere)
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