Who is Kaiser Soze?

The Usual Suspects Movie review

The Usual Suspects is one of those movies that is considered a classic.
Release in 1995, this one is still the gangster movie that everyone movie
director wants to beat. But what are the ingredients that made this one a alltime favorite?
For starters, the cast; the director, Bryan Singer, toke personal responsibility
to carefuly chose the actors for the movie. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne,
Benicio del Toro (just starting is movie career), Stephen Baldwin, Chazz
Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, amongst others. The performance is
absolutely impressive, every one of them delivers powerful appearances,
and you could say that the script was written specially for them
Talking about the script, one has to wonder where Christopher McQuarrie got
the inspiration to write such a brilliant piece of work. The script has
everything you could look for a night out at the movies, theres action,
deceit, a shady gangster, heist, federal agents, dirty ex- cops, an
interrogation room and lots of twists in the plot.
The movie begins whit an enormous explosion that rips apart a ship. What
happened? Who is responsible? And most importantwhy?
A detective named Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) wants to get to bottom of it. He
wants to know everything about this event and who caused it. He starts by
interrogating is only witness, a candid man named Verbal Kint (Kevin
Spacey) that has the looks of an innocent choir boy, and probably wouldnt
hurt a fly. From here the story is told in a flashback mode, triggered by many
events that ultimately gathered a group of criminal to perform a stunning
heistor so we are told. One has to wonder that the person who is telling
the story is a sweet-talker and a con-artistor something else! We might
never know who he really is! All we can say is that he lives to is name
(Verbal) and tells a fast-moving fable that accompanies every event and
twist from the plot.
The suspects are picked up by the police after a truck hijack some weeks
earlier. This event generated a predictable conclusion when you put a group
of criminals in one roomthe beginning of a plot to a much larger crime,
involving money and cocaine. The problem is that the drug belongs to a
mysterious figure named Keyser Soze, a crime lord whose ruthlessness and
influence have acquired a legendary, even mythical status among police
and criminals alike. He is so fearsome that when some competing gangsters
threatened his family to get to him, he killed his family himself, just to make
it clear how determined he was. But no one has ever seen him, or knows
what he looks like. And then there is Mr. Kobayashi (Pete Postlethwaite),
Soze's right-hand man, who is himself so sinister that we begin to wonder if
perhaps Kobayashi himself is Soze.
We hear amazing stories about the suspects operations and Kaizer Soze, all
of them told by Verbal and as he talks, we see what he describes, believing
in every detail of his speech, forgetting that we're only getting his version.

In between, theres also some poor man that survived the explosion thats
going to be crucible in identifying Keyzer Soze.
The ending is breathtaking and full of twists and turns, leading you to a final
surprise where you can finally get to the bottom of thingsor not! The thing
is, when you start seeing the movie, youll want to hear the end of the story
and know who Keizer Soze is!