10 Movies That Made You Root For Monsters

Perhaps the greatest deception ever pulled in cinema history was director Bryan Singer, scriptwriter Christopher McQuarrie and actor Kevin Spacey convincing us that Roger ‘Verbal’ Kint was a good guy.

All through The Usual Suspects, Kint comes across as a largely helpless and harmless character. Made meek by his apparent disability, we end up sympathising with Kint and come to wrongly believe that a man of his mild-mannered nature and physical limitations could never be legendary crime lord and criminal mastermind Keyser Söze.

Detective Kujan, who constantly belittles Kint throughout his interrogation of him and believes he’s smarter than Kint (clue: he isn’t), reinforces the sympathy we have for him.

After playing the victim and the fool the whole movie, we finally learn that Kint is indeed Keyser Söze. We’ve been rooting for a man who – if legend is to be believed – is so evil that he killed his own family so as not to lose face to a rival gangster. Well played, guys, well played.