10 More Times The Movie Killer Was Hiding In Plain Sight

Here it is, the one you've all been waiting for and the finest example of the killer hiding in plain sight EVER. The final twist is now legendary, with most audiences clueless until the very end.

Five guys and one line-up; this was all it took for Verbal Kint to recruit a team of no-goods to rip off the NYPD. The beauty of this film lies in the epic misdirection from the start: Kint is portrayed as a pathetic man, dimwitted and physically incapable, in other words, the last person we expect to be capable of pulling off a stunt as big as this.

There are two huge clues right in the opening scene - as Keaton enjoys the last cigarette he will ever have, the shadowy villain, Keyser Söze, smokes one too, blazing up with a solid gold lighter. He can also be seen wearing a gold wrist watch - these two items are handed to Kint as he leaves the police station at the end of the film, moments before the big reveal.

Kint has been spinning a yarn for the entire movie - does the Hungarian madman gangster Keyser Söze even exist? Is he just an elaborate tale spun for Agent Kujan, pieced together from a collection of case notes on the pin-board in Rabin's office? It might just be - the name of Söze's lawyer, Kobayashi, is printed on the base of the mug that Kujan sips coffee from throughout the entire film. Genius.