The Usual Suspects

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[Cronos]

i think it is one of the best endings ever simply because you dont expect it (unless you do pick up that its Spaceys voice at the beginning), its not like one of those twist endings where you can simply figure out what it is after 20 minutes but wanting to know who he is holds you until this ending which you didnt expect and it makes sense instead of a twist ending that is just stupid (at least i didnt expect it)

i havent seen it for ages though and i really do

[Mr. HokeyPokey]

Yes, I think it is one of the best endings ever. The fact that he lied and lost the limp at the end and was gone forever was genius. He told them everything that would happen and then did it, just minutes after leaving. Great Great Great ending. It even holds up after multiple viewings.

[alexia]

I think it is and always will be the best ending ever in a movie

[bigred760]

I think it's a great ending. The whole time you're buying into the belief that Gabriel Byrne is Keyser Soze - I mean you got Chazz Palmintieri screaming at him that this is the case and so you're expecting Byrne to come out and suprise everybody.
Did the idea that a handicapped person that has been the wimp throughout the whole movie (or most of it) could be the villain? No.

It's one of the best movie endings of all time. Nobody saw it coming.

[Bonham]

I may be WAY off in this, but I looked a little deeper into the ending. I always sort of thought that Kobayashi was the real Keyser Soze.

A) The flashback looks much more like him than Verbal
B) If Keyser's as good as they make him out to be, I don't even think they could get the sketch of him. Spacey could have been his fall-guy.
C) If it would be a big twist to have the cripple as Keyser, wouldn't it be even more of a twist to have a henchman be him?
D) His name wasn't really Kobayashi because that was written on the bottom of the coffee cup.

I haven't watched the movie in a while, so I may be missing some things. But that's my take on the movie.

[Hannibal21]

The ending to 'The Usual Suspects' was one that blew me away in such a way that no film ever did (nope, not even the "revelation" in The Sixth Sense). It was one of the ultimate "surprise endings" to a movie, and a brilliant one at that.

[Lord Nikon]

Okay. I am going to rag on you guys a bit here. "The ending is great because it is unexpected? I am not going to give away the ending to SAW, but you cannot tell me it was not unexpected. Yet, people base SAWs ending which I loved, yet won't admit that The Usual Suspects is over rated as an ending, as well as Se7en.

[Bonham]

The ending of Saw was unexpected, but that's because it was so outrageous. Twists don't work if they're centered around a plot-hole. I enjoyed Saw as a movie, but I felt that the ending actually took away from it.

Personally, I don't think that either of these movies' endings can hold a candle to the best twist of all time....Planet of the Apes.

[wheresdonnie?]

At the time, Kevin Spacey didn't have any huge fans, Usual Suspects was his big break into film, having done some supporting roles and a lot of theatre. The point was that people would think that there must be more to Keaton's part, given that, at the time, Gabriel Byrne was the biggest star in the movie. Great movie, I love it.