10 Greatest Murder-Mystery Films That Fooled Us All

9. The Usual Suspects

the usual suspects line-up
Gramercy Pictures

Keyser Soze. One of the greatest revelations in the history of film. With class acting, writing, and directing, The Usual Suspects was a crime-thriller/murder-mystery that had our heads spinning until Verbal Kint walked out of the police station - and then our jaws hit the floor.

This movie had us walking on a tightrope of what we knew and what we didn't, that line sometimes blurring: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

It is lines like that, as we followed Verbal Kint's story through his interrogation, that gave us a haunting feeling that something wasn't right, that there was something we were missing. How did all these mobsters get put in a line-up together? Who had enough power to set these men up? Who the hell is Keyser Soze? In the end, we are left with a revelation that preys upon the minds of its viewers and leaves us in awe of how delicate and precise it was put together.

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