The Usual Suspects (2 Disc Special Edition) [1995]

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Starring: ~ Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne Chazz Palminteri Stephen Baldwin Benicio Del Toro
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Studio: MGM Entertainment

Region: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Format: Dubbed, PAL Special Edition

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Sales Rank: 630

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A VERY HAPPY AMERICAN ! (28 October 2008)
If an Australian seller hadn't misrepresented their Crosby,Stills, and Nash DVDs as Region 1, when in actuality they were Region 2s, I never would have invested in a Regions-free player, and began broadening my horizons, thereby finding this GEM to be not only out-of-print at home,but only available in Blu Ray ! We've never had a 2 disc edition that I'm aware of, and when this one arrived (QUICKLY I might add), my son and I devoured it ! Nearly,or just over 2 hours of extras is a real treat, on top of the crystal clear, vivid widescreen print of the film itself. Thank you AmazonUK.

Go visit the Twin Towers (12 July 2008)
It is not a recent film, indeed. The Twin Towers are still standing. We are entering the profiling era and it was tempting for criminals to return the favor, though they have always done that. They here profile the police and their investigative methods. If you satisfy the police's way of thinking you will go through their net with no difficulty. You just have to convince the cop that a certain criminal does not exist, that this criminal projects you in some kind of legend or saga, is a boogeyman under the bed or in the closet. If the cops are convinced that this boogeyman is a pure collective invention, some folklore in another word, they will just shrug their shoulders and consider the one who is telling the story is, like all the others, haunted or possessed by a phantasm. And it works. He is the only survivor, or nearly, and he convinces them that his criminal persona is a myth. They are dubious, dubitative, skeptical and many other things, but they cannot imagine you are that myth, that criminal and that you are fooling them massively. To play on the impossibility for these cops to believe such a story can exist is your best diversion, disguise. They are ready to buy a lot but not that someone who is a coward, a weak person, a subservient non-entity, what's more a cripple, can be that ruthless, pitiless and unwavering mastermind of crime. Of course the punch line of the film is that the cop realizes he has been fooled because this cripple being the mastermind is the only explanation why he knows all he knows: he knows too much to just be an accidental witness. And the punch line is doubled with the composite picture of this fantasized criminal as seen by the other survivor who should not have survived and the criminal does not know he is still alive who has seen him very distinctly. This composite picture, a very sketchy image, is arriving on the fax machine as the cripple straightens up and gets into the car that was waiting for him outside the police station. Too late. This tactic has been used by other thrillers, but in this case it is very persuasive and the film works very well provided we do not profile the thriller-maker, otherwise we would know the end before the film ever starts.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

SUPERB (01 May 2008)
I don't think I have ever seen a better film of this genre.

The whole film just works. It's brilliant to say the least.

I just wish I had been to see this in the cinema to see peoples reactions at the end.

Superb.... Brilliant.... BUY THIS FILM !!!!!!!!!!!

A well crafted film (29 April 2008)
I remember the first time watching the film and not being all that impressed with it. However you really need to wach it at least twice to fully appreciate it. A worthwhile DVD as well, excellent picture and sound with quality special features.

I was sorry when it had finished (01 February 2008)
A strange thing happened when I was watching this film. It seemed until the last twenty minutes to be going along nicely and could be categorised as an above average, rather 'noirish' heist movie which was exceptionally well conceived, crafted and very well acted. Then, the final twenty minutes started. Wow! What a superb film. It steps up a gear like no other and hits you with revelation after revelation, enigmas are revelaed and just when you think that's it, along comes another to supercede its predecessor. I was so blown away by the ending that I immediately had to watch the last twenty minutes again-something I had never done before not have I done since.

I felt such a sense of loss when the film had finished, I would never be led so willingly down the blind alleys of this film ever agin, once you know the end it stays with you for ever. ALl of this happened a long time ago, now I get enormous satisfaction with each viewing from the craftsmanship of the director (in a stunning debut)and the writer, the performances of the lead actors and the clues which present themselves so clearly on subsequent viewings.

What a film, and with the extra features on this edition this is a fantastic dvd package for one of the best heist noir movies of all time, one of th best films of the decade and one of the most rivetting films you will ever see. Nomatter how much the cost-buy it NOW!!!!!