Nineties Movies - page 2

28 July 2008

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3. The Usual Suspects

Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centres on five career criminals (played by Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up.

Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an intricate heist involving $3 million worth of emeralds.

Their success brings them to the attention of the enigmatic Keyser Soze, an unseen, nefarious, and mythic underworld crime figure who coerces them into pulling off an important and highly dangerous job.

The twist that follows makes The Usual Suspects one of the best crime thrillers of all time.

4. Jurassic Park

The decade defined CGI blockbuster and Spielberg's Jurassic Park led the way the film centres on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, where scientists have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs and it's prehistoric cast took centre stage.

When released the film grossed $914 million at the box office, making it the biggest grossing film ever at the time, beating E.T which originally held the title.

The success of the original movie has spawned a successful franchise as The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park III (2001) all found success, Jurassic Park IV is currently in the pipeline.

5. Fight Club

An adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name Fight Club was one of the 'twist' movies that took the cinema by storm in the nineties.

The nameless protagonist, portrayed by Edward Norton, is an everyman and an unreliable narrator who becomes involved in a fight club with Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and is conflicted in a relationship triangle with Durden and Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter).

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