The Suspect (Spoilers)

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Today we're reviewing The Suspect.

Release Date- January 23, 2014 (USA)
Run time- 98 mins (1 hour and 38 mins)

Director- Stuart Connelly

Producers- Scott Aronson

Starring- Mekhi Phifer, Sterling K. Brown and William Sadler.

Scale of 1-10 (1: Don't watch it, 10: Drop everything, Go out and see this movie right now!)

The Suspect = 6 out of 10!

Short Synopsis:

A Midwest town experiences a bank robbery and is unable to figure out who did it. The local police find and contain a mysterious character walking around town claiming to be looking at buying a house. The events that happen next would question the truth and even their suspect.

** Warning, Possible Spoilers!!!! **

The Good:

• Mehki Phifer did well in this role. He depicted a character that was heartbroken about his daughter's condition. He would stop at nothing to get help for her. 
• The suspect idea was an interesting plot point. You really couldn't tell at the beginning of the movie if there was one suspect of African American descent or two. They both switched in pulling off critical points in the job. Every detail was planned out and executed almost to perfection. 

The Bad: 

This movie suffered from poorly placed flashbacks. The flashbacks came during weird times and really didn't sync well with the story. Instead of clearing things up for the viewer, it made things more confusing.

The ending of this movie was horrible. Phifer's character had a death wish so he could have his daughter collect the insurance money. The terms of the death made it very weird. The twist came from left field and didn't fit properly in the movie. 

One of the major weak points about this movie was too many plot twists. When you first meet Phifer's character you think that he robbed banks. A twist made it to where he's returning the money and letting the authorities know that it's a social experiment. Another twist happens when you realize he's returning fake money he received from a counterfeiter and keeping the real money. This would make you think he's collecting it for his daughter...False. Final twist, he put out an insurance policy that goes in effect when he dies from uncommon events. If you're confused by reading all of the twists then imagine watching it.

The Hypothetical:

It would be a different movie if Brown's character didn't stop to buy glasses. He would have lived and made it back to the police station. They could have both lived and continue to pull of the elaborate bank heists. Each town they went to bought into the experiment and didn't suspect anything after they left.

Imagine if Samuel L. Jackson was one of the suspects and Lawrence Fishburne played the other suspects. Think of it as the Jackson/Fishburne mistaken identity interview all over again. 

Questions of the week: How would you have ended this film differently? Who would you cast as the two suspects?

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