10 Awesome Movies Where The Bad Guy Wins

1. The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled... - The Usual Suspects

In Bryan Singer's fiendishly clever thriller, five men are arrested in the wake of a truck hijacking, and despite their lack of guilt, decide to team up and enact a plan of revenge against the cops. However, master criminal Keyser Soze, a shadowy figure whose face is never seen - at least until the end - believes that the five men owe him once this revenge plan is carried out, and their attempt to pay him back ends up with 27 men dying on a boat.

Sound confusing? That's sort of the point of The Usual Suspects; all of this is relayed to the viewer, and to Chaz Palminteri's bemused federal agent, in flashback, by one of two men who survived the boat debacle; a man suffering fromcerebral palsy called Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey).

Kint's story checks out, and so at the film's climax, he is let go, only for Palminteri's character to quickly discover the error of his ways; Kint has been making his story up, using various objects stuck on the wall in front of him for inspiration. An artist's impression from the other survivor makes it clear that Kint, in fact, is Soze, but before the mistake can be corrected, Kint, proving he doesn't have cerebral palsy, disappears without a trace. "And like that, he's gone."

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