Bryan Singer’s breakthrough film was a masterful exercise in style, and — thanks to Christopher McQuarrie — screenwriting. But what the two of them do so expertly together is not just spin a compelling yarn about a group of criminals, but weave into that tapestry an amazing punch line, rejoinder to the whole mythmaking that they themselves do, with a final scene that makes you reconsider how the power structure of the crime coalition works, and what it would take for you not to be fooled if you were in the cops’ position, hearing how it all went down.
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