Identity

Identity is an outright blast, so fun it's--pardon--scary.

Fine escapist fare with a saving sense of humor and an underlying premise that, when revealed, proves to be arguably plausible even if a reach.

Just loopy enough to be tantalizing, involving, and fun.

Approaches the serial killer archetype in a tremendously unique way. It turns the old stand-bys on their ears and gives a fresh perspective on the genre.

Reasonably well-executed thriller. It suffers not from awkwardness or silliness, which would make it more fun, but rather from its air-brushed, expensive pretentiousness.

The tension's palpable and the deaths are gruesomely inventive (and jarringly abrupt), but the clincher is so far-fetched you may end up wishing you'd opted for the relative reality of a week in Cancun instead.

The ultimate cliché of plot-twist implausibility, the crucial revelation is so outlandishly fatuous it might have given Donald Kaufman pause.

Great movie with many twists and very interesting and complex setting. I take some time to understand, whats is going on. This is how many movies should be

Identity is a remarkable film. No doubt. I will call it a masterpiece and rate it with a 10, although in my opinion something very important is not included in the film.. And I will only say, that it's related to the real killings, you will see. But I think the film is genius and we should not crunch. Try to arrange the whole movie from the beginning of the protagonist's life to the day of his supposed ending. It's not that simple. You may have some idea about the end of the movie, but you will be surprised, when you begin to look into the details and find out more. But, for sure, you will be satisfied with this movie. ~ ~ Now.. SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!! (Only for those, who want to see a different point of view about the whole film after watching it) ~ Malcolm Rivers is a killer, who suffers from Dissociative identity disorder, a.k.a multiple personality disorder (he has 11 personalities). His mother was a prostitute, and his father left the family when he was two. Probably then he got his illness. It is not known when he was ill. What is certain, however, is that he committed six killings after he became ill. Michael was captured and arrested for his murders, then sentenced to execution. Michael has worked with his psychiatrist who has established his illness, which had never been known to anyone, and tried to justify it, because there are part of him - different personalities who are not guilty (not committed those 6 killings). So his doctor decided to make a new form of healing, gathering all the personalities in one place and the killer personality being killed by other personalities. What we see in the most part of the film is all 11 personalities trying to survive, because they knew, that the aim is killer personality to die. And here is the misleading part. NOT ONLY ONE personality is a killer, but MORE (Larry, the prostitute, the serial killer and probably Ed, the 'fake policeman' have killed for sure in the real life). Like I said all the personalities want to live. But there is one personality, that wants to kill the others and stay alone - the kid personality (he count them with the motel's keys from 10 like the 10 other personalities). It is accidental, that at the end the doctor dies, as Michael is in a "trance", imagining he kills the last personality in his head, but actually kills the doctor in reality. The most important thing in this film is that not only one personality was a killer, committing murders in real life, like the doctor thought, but most of them were.

The film looks good as you’d expect. The night shooting is effective but the special effects are a little predictable. It didn’t blow me away though, possibly because it was a little safe? Really good sound design. I could not find fault with the sound except for the heartbeat over the credits which was totally unnecessary. Really good use of the whole soundscape. Hands down, best sounding rain in a movie! The problem with the story is that once you know the ending there is no point watching. I suppose that the story is an interesting, original and different take on the concept. The story and characters build suspense and mystery but when you know the reveal twist ending you have no desire to watch the film again. The cast is very strong. There is quite a nice atmosphere along the way. Quite an interesting story well told with a great ending which is bad if you remember it or figure it out.

60/100 It's meh ... Well, I didn't really like it. The acting is decent, a story I've seen many times before, is filmed ok... I think. There are some twists ... one is ok but the rest are useless. I do not know what to say... I could have seen something better...

"Identity" is a 2003 James Mangold Directed film about 10 strangers who meet at a seedy Nevada motel and soon realize that they are being killed off one by one. Let me start off by saying that I love a good thriller. If you have an intriguing premise and a good touch of tasteful twists here and there, I'll ultimately find the movie to be, to some degree, good. "Identity" definitely possessed the former, but tricked me with the latter. From the moment this movie starts you are almost immediately pulled into it's fascinating plot. And as the movie goes on, twists ensue, leading you to reconsider every view of every character in the film. However, the last twist of this film, in short, angered me. I found the final twist of the film to make sense, but it was the most unsatisfying ending I could have imagined this film to present. The film presented an incredibly new type of plot for me and in my opinion fudged up the ending a bit. However, every minute up to the last 5 were pretty thrilling and intense. All of the actors did a good job in their roles and their lines were fairly well written. The direction by Mangold is really quite beautiful - he really creates some unsettling imagery here. Overall, I can say that "Identity" was a enjoyable movie. . .up until the end.