The Usual Suspects/ Film Noir review

An ugly word that often gets unfairly tossed around in film criticism is manipulative. This word seems like sudden death for any movie, and is often used to describe a film that tries to play to the emotions of its audience. A more accurate way of using this term is a film that has little confidence in what it does and simply tries to throw things at the audience, hoping for validity. The Usual Suspects is a great example. While it certainly does paint an interesting picture, the characters are stock, and without interesting play between the players, it over compensates with plot twists and story holes, mixed rather uninspired interrogation scenes. There is little to enjoy in The Usual Suspects other than trying to put together its story, and once you do that you realize it is not even an entertaining story, but simply feeds the audience so little, that there is little payoff to learning the surprises.But i feel it had some unique dialog and felt that with a little more effort the director could have done a much better job with the film All in all in i felt it was an interesting movie. Overall i would rate the whole movie a 7/10. In sound i would give it an 7/10. Picture would be a 8/10 and acting would be a 5/10.