8. The Usual Suspects 2: The Hunt For Keyser Soze
If you've only ever heard about
The Usual Suspects, you probably know - in the same way that one would know about
The Sixth Sense - that the plot relies on a big twist that exists to blow your mind and make you say, "Oh, man, how did I not guess that?" If you've haven't seen the film, I suggest you skip this entry because I'm about to spoil the movie up in here (though I guess if you've read this far, you probably don't care anyway - good, I like that). Basically, the movie ends with the revelation that lowly cripple Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) - the man who has been recounting our story from the beginning - is in fact Keyser Soze. Keyser Soze, by the way, is a notorious criminal mastermind. That limp and goofy demeanour you witnessed throughout the entire flick? Fake. The man's actually a genius. Which is why Hollywood (well, writer/director Chazz Palminteri) briefly flirted with the idea that a sequel to
Suspects might be worthwhile. The plot centered around "the hunt for Keyser Soze," since - to be fair - that would actually be the natural progression in this story. Thing is, all the other suspects are dead ('cause Soze killed them), so we've already lost what made the original so great: the great ensemble. Which is presumably what everybody involved with this realised when they got stopped being insane for a minute and shelved this thing good and proper.