Identity finds its hooks not in the artful-but-routine surface details, but in the quiet clues lurking in the corners of the frame.
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04/29/03
Identity (2003)
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Reviews Counted:165
Fresh:102
Rotten:63
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Identity is a film that will divide audiences -- the twists of its plot will either impress or exasperate you.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: IDENTITY, directed by James Mangold, is a thriller set at an isolated motel in rural Nevada during an unrelenting rainstorm. With all roads washed out and all forms of communication dead, a group... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Ray Liotta, John Hawkes
Director: James Mangold
Reviews for Identity
If you can approach it using "movie logic," this is an interestingly trippy story. If not, the whole thing falls completely to pieces.
04/29/03
The tagline for Identity is -- 'Identity is a killer.' Oh, it’s a killer. It’ll kill 90 minutes of your time and a few brain cells not to mention $8.50 of your hard earned cash.
04/29/03
[Identity] turns the old stand-bys on their ears and gives a fresh perspective on the genre.
04/29/03
The tension's palpable and the deaths are gruesomely inventive (and jarringly abrupt), but the clincher is relatively far-fetched.
04/29/03
No way do you check out this tourist trap and leave with the remotest intention of ever checking back in.
04/29/03
In playfully paying homage to thrillers (both good and bad) of days gone by...the filmmakers have created something familiar, yet fresh.
04/29/03
A nihilist project in Usual Suspects mode: Nothing is as it seems, because nothing matters in the least.
04/29/03
Pretty scary.
04/28/03
Just one word: Woah.
04/28/03
When you're leaving the theatre, you'll want to turn right around, throw down another ten bucks, and go see it again. It's that good.
04/28/03
[A] very well made horror thriller.
04/28/03
It's practically a catalog of slasher-movie groaners.
04/28/03
Crisply paced, well acted and smartly drawn... an entertaining and invigorating genre treat.
04/28/03
Made enough sense to be appreciated as a good old-fashioned mystery.
04/28/03
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04/28/03
Amanda Peet is "Paris," a call girl who dreams the dream of all call girls: To return to Florida and run an orange grove. What qualifies her for a life in agriculture? "In my profession," Paris says, "I love getting my hands dirty and making things gro
04/28/03
...Liotta and Cusack make the film a better experience.
04/28/03
Un thriller efficace et relativement original.
04/27/03
Although the first part of 'Identity' overflows with delicious suspense and creepy atmosphere, the film's plot soon becomes one of its helpless victims.
04/27/03
Latest News for Identity
May 02, 2006:
Wilson & SJ Parker Discover a Disturbing "Vacancy"
Luke Wilson and Sarah Jessica Parker will star in "Vacancy" for Sony's Screen Gems and producer Hal Lieberman. It's about a couple who unwittingly become stars ... of... More...
February 21, 2006:
Mangold Climbs Aboard the "3:10 to Yuma"
"Walk the Line" director James Mangold has his next project ready to roll. It's a remake of the 1957 western "3:10 to Yuma," which he'll be putting together... More...
December 23, 2002:
Having read the twist-laden script, I believe that Sony executives have a potential sleeper on their hands...Film aficionados are likely to pick up that the film contains a very similar plot to Agatha Christie’s "10 Little Indians." 
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