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| Cast and Credits |
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John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay |
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James Mangold |
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Reviewed By: Brendan Cullin
Rating: 6.5/10
Ten strangers (which include a washed up actress, her limo driver, a newlywed couple, a family of three, a cop, a convict and a hooker) and a hotel desk clerk (so I guess that makes 11!) get trapped in a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere. It is raining cats and dogs and before you know it, the strangers begin to disappear and/or gruesomely die, seemingly in the order of the importance of their real-life acting accomplishments. But there are other stange coincidences - the dead motel guests are being found with their hotel key on their dead body and it seems like they are being knocked off according to their room number. And an even eerier coincidence is everyone was born on the same day. So what is really going on here? How did these 10 strangers plus one hotel worker, all with a mysterious connection, end up stuck in the deathtrap motel? Well, that is up to you to figure out once you see the movie.
Personally, I liked Identity up until the last 10 minutes. It was intriguing for the most part and scary in a few parts. The acting was strong right from the limo driver down to the hooker (I particularly loved the hotel clerk's explanation of how he ended up at the hotel - an absolute hoot). And it was almost impossible to figure out what the heck was going on and who was killing all of these wonderful people. But I have to admit, I just did not totally understand the end of the movie. The main part of the explanation, I got that. But there were a couple of things that happened that just left me scratching my head. I can't really get into it without ruining the movie for the millions of people who will read this review but I'll probably have to see this movie one more time which, in a way, is a brilliant move by the makers of Identity - to fuck you up and make you see it a second time.
I figure Identity will be one of those movies that half the audience loves, half thought it was okay and half didn't like it. Then there will be those who think they totally understood it, those who didn't understand but refuse to admit it and those who don't know what the hell just happened. I think I fall into the category of "thought it was okay" but "don't know what the hell just happened". That probably doesn't make a whole helluva lot of sense but then again, neither did Identity and at least I will admit it.
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