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Review title: the usual suspects
Product review: I remember Ebert complaining that the problem with the twist at the end of The Usual Suspects was that it negated the film - that nothing in the movie actually really happened. True enough, but the tale spun in The Usual Suspects was so entertaining that it didn't matter. Fascinating characters, excellent dialog and action. The same trick is employed here but it's not effective because: a) the trick was not done well, b) the characters are absolutely inane and the acting is appalling. I'm concerned that people who find this brilliant are hankering for something so intellectually robust that they can elevate themselves to a state of intelligencia by "getting it". There's nothing worth "getting" here, folks. It's a poorly planned mind-trick that is just not interesting enough to be worth the effort.
