The Usual Suspects (1995)

The Usual Suspects rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8.5/10· 1.2M votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic76%

TMDb8.169/10· 11K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8.5/10 on IMDb and 76/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About The Usual Suspects

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Cast of The Usual Suspects

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  Stephen Baldwin

  as McManus

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  Gabriel Byrne

  as Keaton

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  Benicio del Toro

  as Fenster

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  Kevin Pollak

  as Hockney

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  Kevin Spacey

  as Verbal

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  Chazz Palminteri

  as Dave Kujan

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  Pete Postlethwaite

  as Kobayashi

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  Suzy Amis

  as Edie Finneran

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  Giancarlo Esposito

  as Jack Baer

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  Dan Hedaya

  as Jeff Rabin

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  Paul Bartel

  as Smuggler

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  Carl Bressler

  as Saul Berg

The Usual Suspects facts

Budget

$6M

Box office

$23.3M

Our take on The Usual Suspects

Bryan Singer's 1995 crime thriller is built around a single interrogation, as small-time crook Verbal Kint spins the legend of an almost mythic crime lord named Keyser Soze for a pair of federal agents. What begins as the aftermath of a disastrous harbor heist becomes a riddle about who is telling the truth and why. Puzzle-box in structure and patient in its reveals, it rewards viewers who enjoy piecing a story together from unreliable fragments rather than watching action unfold. If you like twisty, dialogue-driven crime dramas where the telling matters as much as the crime, this belongs high on your list.