8 Brilliant Movie Plot Twists (That Don't Make Sense At All)

1. Why Does Verbal Kint Let Anybody See What He Looks Like At All? - The Usual Suspects

The Plot Twist: In a plot twist that people are still keen to cite as "totally awesome" and "so very f*cking awesome" today, The Usual Suspects tells the story of a crippled guy name Verbal Kint, played by Kevin Spacey, who recounts the story of an epic crime to a couple of police detectives, one that was pulled off by a super legendary criminal badass named "Keyser Soze." At the end of the movie, though, when Verbal Kint has been released from custody, a fax is sent to the officers revealing the true identity of Keyser Soze - and he looks exactly like Verbal freakin' Kint! Alas, he was their man all along. As Kint steps out into the street, he reveals himself as totally not-crippled at all, gets into a car, and disappears forever.

But Wait... The point of The Usual Suspects is that Verbal Kint makes up everything he tells the detectives to the point that they believe him enough to let him go. He does this using names and pieces of information he can spot from looking around their office, improvising as he talks. But before that part of the story plays out - which, as we know, is unreliable - the movie begins with a genuine sequence that we must presume we can take as factual, since Kint isn't relaying it to us. The aim of the entire ruse was that Kint (or Soze) set out to kill the man who knew what he looked like - we see flashes of this part at the beginning of the movie, free from Kint's tweaked version. But why the heck does he wait around in the aftermath of the crime so that the police can arrest him or take him into custody or look at his face?

All he had to do was not go to be interviewed in the first place, and then - when that fax came through at the end - the cops would be not the wiser. But I guess that wouldn't have made for a very good movie, huh?

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