Top 10 Tarantino Films Not Directed by Quentin Tarantino

5. The Usual Suspects

A group of criminals. A detached narrative. An ending that ties it all together. A young director. Style over substance. For its time, "The Usual Suspects" was considered a rather stellar murder mystery that teams a wild cast of characters, all of whom suffer cruel fates at the hands of an unseen crime boss who hides in the shadows for most of the film. Bryan Singer relies on the detached story segments to throw the audience off to the whole events and provides a narrator who may or may not be entirely reliable or trustworthy to get us through the motions channeling "Rashomon."

While the film does value style over substance and apes Tarantino in many respects, it's a considerably solid murder mystery with a surprise ending that's so well known it's surprising if you don't already know it. Come on, you know what the ending is! I knew it two years before I ever actually saw the film. All things considered I can imagine the surprise ending was amazing for its time, and it's still worth watching if only for the mesmerizing performance from Kevin Spacey.