Netflix pick for 6/23/14 – ‘The Usual Suspects’

Winning a slew of film fest awards as well as a pair of Oscars, “The Usual Suspects” is a classic film noir mystery movie from 1995 that effectively launched the career of director Bryan Singer. Featuring a tense story about a group of criminals and the evil mastermind behind them all (even without them really knowing it), this is a cool movie with great atmosphere, awesome actors and a classic final reveal that really packs a punch.

The cast alone is almost good enough to watch this movie, with Byrne and Spacey being their usual realiably great selves, Benicio Del Toro being delightfully strange, Kevin Pollack actually being menacing and criminal-like (which is something since he is known mostly for being a stand up comic who does a mean Alan Arkin impression), and Stephen Baldwin actually being decent. Throw in some Peter Greene, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite and you have a bunch of dramatic heavy hitters ready to breathe life into a cracker jack of a screenplay, one that ends in a whirlwind of information and delirium that shocked audiences all over in 1995, and now here we are almost twenty years later, and “The Usual Suspects” is just sitting around, ready to be watched, waiting for someone new to come along and have their expectations subverted by a great movie.

So go ahead and watch “The Usual Suspects” right here on the Netflix Instant and enjoy!