If you have figured it out before it is revealed to you, Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey) is Keyser Söze. But the real twist is when you thought you were wrong.
Verbal tells his testimony to Agent Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) about the line-up that started it all. In the twisted version of Ocean's Eleven, Verbal is arrested, alongside four other criminals (Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio del Toro, and Kevin Pollack) a hijacking-charge. In response, the "usual suspects" decide to attack corrupt cops who transported smugglers throughout New York City.
This caught the attention of none other than Keyser Söze. Söze offers them a job destroying $91M of heroin brought in by Söze's Argentinian drug lord rivals.
Kujan asked who Söze was. Verbal explains the crime urban legend, that "criminals told to their kids at night," of the Hungarian mercenary. Kujan calls the whole thing bull, because he believed Dean Keaton (Byrne) was Söze. The Heroin heist was a cover up to silence the one man who can identify Söze. And Keaton was protected by his late lawyer girlfriend. Verbal admits the whole thing was Keaton's idea and is released. Moments later Kujan realizes Verbal lied and was Keyser Söze, but was too late to catch him.
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was making the whole world believe he didn't exist."
Like I said before, you probably guessed Verbal was Keyser Söze. Who else asks who Keyser Söze was when everyone else heard of him? Then later states that the man is the person they scare their kids with, like the bogeyman.
However, the brilliant writers made you believe you were wrong. Keaton was Keyser Söze. His past as a corrupt cop, helps make sense of his anger for the Police department. His lawyer-girlfriend was murdered, perhaps by him or on his orders.
You feel defeated, just as Verbal seemed. You feel stupid, just Verbal did. You were a victim, just Verbal was. But then, as Verbal walked out, Kujan looks at his bulletin board and realize that half of Verbal's story was composed of paper, pamphlets, and posters on the board.
I highly recommend this film.
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