It's a fun, raucous ride, with more than its share of chills and thrills.
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04/24/03
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
The darkness is speckled with the lightening humor of characters who are funny without crossing into smarminess.
04/24/03
Throughout, the film teeters tantalizingly on the preposterous, but James Mangold's astute direction and Michael Cooney's carefully thought-out script keep it from sliding over the edge.
04/24/03
Top CriticAmanda Peet throws some fine, even sublime, attitude: there's really nothing this girl doesn't do well, even the good-hearted hooker.
04/24/03
A unique murder-mystery completely ruined by a trailer that gives the whole thing away.
04/24/03
Effective, well-crafted chiller.
04/24/03
A pretty wild ride if you're willing to leave your brain at the popcorn counter and let Mr. Mangold jolt your spine with every thriller-chiller trick in Hollywood's hefty book.
04/24/03
keeps viewers guessing, provides several solid jolts, builds to a perfectly acceptable ending -- then can't resist adding on a few more twists that finally push the picture dangerously close to the border of unintentional comedy.
04/24/03
Takes the 'nothing is what it seems...' conceit to clever new extremes.
04/24/03
Identity doesn't outfox the audience; it just makes us feel like suckers.
04/24/03
80 minutes of cliches, overacting and hackneyed coincidences.
04/24/03
The writer gets as tangled in his own explanations as a puppy in a 30-foot leash.
04/24/03
The script within "Adaptation" was a joke and it’s sad that everyone involved wasn’t in on it and dragged the audience to the top of the greatest imaginable rollercoaster only to breakdown before sending us down the hill.
04/24/03
An effectively scary, psychological variation on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
04/24/03
One potential victim verbally acknowledges the obvious similarity of their predicament to Ten Little Indians; it's the first of several self-conscious blunders this movie makes as it seeks to escape its B-picture constraints.
04/24/03
Adds an interesting shot of intelligence to a genre that hasn't seen any in many a year.
04/24/03
It starts as Agatha Christie but mutates into Stephen King.
04/24/03
Enjoyably swervy.
04/24/03
Like a creaky roller coaster, you feel it could fall apart at any time.
04/24/03
It's a relentlessly tricky and scary show, with a bit more plot and humanity than this kind of modern Grand Guignol usually gives us.
04/24/03
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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