Fireworks vs The Usual Suspects
The Usual Suspects has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 7.7/10 for Fireworks). Fireworks is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 1h 46m. The Usual Suspects is the older of the two (1995 against 1997). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Fireworks
The Usual Suspects| Fireworks | The Usual Suspects | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.7/10 | ★ 8.2/10 |
| Year | 1997 | 1995 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 46m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano | Bryan Singer |
| Main cast | Ren Osugi, Takeshi Kitano, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa | Kevin Pollak, Giancarlo Esposito, Benicio del Toro, Dan Hedaya, Kevin Spacey |
Synopsis
Fireworks
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
The Usual Suspects
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
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