Five Minutes of Heaven vs The Usual Suspects

The Usual Suspects has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.1/10 for Five Minutes of Heaven). Five Minutes of Heaven is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 1h 46m. The Usual Suspects is the older of the two (1995 against 2009). Both are crime, drama, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Five Minutes of Heaven posterFive Minutes of Heaven2009 VS The Usual Suspects posterThe Usual Suspects1995
Five Minutes of HeavenThe Usual Suspects
Audience score★ 6.1/10★ 8.2/10
Year20091995
Length1h 29m1h 46m
GenresCrime, Drama, ThrillerCrime, Drama, Thriller
Country––
DirectorOliver HirschbiegelBryan Singer
Main castJames Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Richard Dormer, Liam Neeson, Niamh CusackKevin Pollak, Giancarlo Esposito, Benicio del Toro, Dan Hedaya, Kevin Spacey

Synopsis

Five Minutes of Heaven

The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

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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