MOVIE - IDENTITY - Review Rating $$$$$ $ (OUT OF 10)
STARRING - John Cusack (Ed), Ray Liotta (Rhodes), Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina (Doctor), Clea Du Vall, Rebecca DeMornay, John C. McGinley, John Hawkes, Lee Scott & Jake Busey.
DIRECTOR - James Mangold (Heavy, Girl Interrupted, Kate & Leopold, Cop Land)
A bad night gets a lot worse when the guests stranded at a remote motel start being murdered in creative and gruesome ways.
Identity is just another version of the Halloween/Friday the 13th movies. You patiently sit through the setting up of the arrival of the various motel guests waiting for a pay-off that doesn't come. When the guests do start being killed off the degree of the contrivances created by this point are so excessive that you sit there debating whether to get up and walk out.
For a brief moment you are lured into thinking that the sub-plot will make meaningful sense of what has occurred so far. Only for a moment as you will be disappointed by this aspect of the story as well. The problems with the sub-plot are almost too numerous too mention. As it is the psychological subplot is more contrived than the possibility that 10 people with the same birthdate would all get stranded at the same motel.
Much of the blame for the lack of intelligence of the plot must be shouldered by screenwriter Michael Clooney who is responsible for such cinematic masterpieces as the direct to video films Jack Frost & Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (See Greg's Previews).
Identity is a film that exploits multiple personality disorder and has an identity crisis of its own that just barely merits a recommendation.
Running time - 90 minutes
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