Identity (2003)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 169
Fresh: 105 | Rotten: 64
Identity is a film that will divide audiences -- the twists of its plot will either impress or exasperate you.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 16
Identity is a film that will divide audiences -- the twists of its plot will either impress or exasperate you.
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Movie Info
Ten strangers are brought together during a weather emergency, only to discover a far greater danger awaits them in this suspense-drama. A sudden rainstorm in a remote desert town strands a disparate variety of people at a rundown motel. A convict sentenced to death, Malcolm Rivers (Pruitt Taylor Vince), is stuck in transit with his lawyer (Alfred Molina). Ginny and Lou (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott) are a not-especially-happy pair of young marrieds on their honeymoon. Ed (John Cusack) is a
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Cast
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John Cusack
Ed -
Ray Liotta
Detective Rhodes -
Amanda Peet
Paris -
John Hawkes
Larry -
Alfred Molina
Doctor -
Clea DuVall
Ginny -
John C. McGinley
George -
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Jake Busey
Robert Maine -
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Malcolm Rivers -
Rebecca De Mornay
Caroline Suzanne -
Carmen Argenziano
Defense Lawyer -
Marshall Bell
District Attorney -
Leila Kenzle
Alice York -
Matt Letscher
Assistant District Atto... -
Bret Loehr
Timothy York -
Holmes Osborne
Judge -
Frederick Coffin
Detective Varole -
Joe Hart
Bailiff Jenkins -
Stuart M. Besser
Frozen Body -
Terence Bernie Hines
Bailiff -
Michael Hirsch
Naked Businessman
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All Critics (184) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (105) | Rotten (64) | DVD (34)
A lame-brained nut job in search of an identity of its own.
Top CriticA nihilist project in Usual Suspects mode: Nothing is as it seems, because nothing matters in the least.
[A] very well made horror thriller.
Assorted examples of artificially flavoured humanity ... proceed to panic, bicker and run with the customary perversity that characters in situations like this do toward their gory destinies.
Deserves credit for at least trying something fresh in the psychological-thriller realm, and for the mood of goofball creepiness it creates.
More than an entertaining thriller. It's a highly original one.
the central twist which unifies all the film's elements is so ingenious and unusual that recognising the killer ends up being just one small part of this film's multi-faceted identity.
Scary beyond belief serial killer thriller.
A good cast is enacting this fancy rubbish; what drew them to the material besides its self-conscious cleverness is beyond me.
The cast is game, the twists are clever, the writing is tight.
An ingenious thriller molded from Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". The film's incredibly entertaining even with the measurably predictable twist.
With a top notch cast, wonderful direction, and a great play on an old premise, Identity is a must-see.
... every predictable move comes unraveled again with an uncanny discovery.
'Uno de los mejores thrillers realizados en los últimos diez años, por lo que sería un verdadero crimen perdérselo.'
Mangold needs to feel he's wowing us instead of just entertaining us; amid the confusion, the really scary moments pass you by.
The characters are mostly slices of a whodunit pie, and once the real revelation that spins the story around happens, there isn't much reason to care about them anymore.
One of the most engaging experiences you will have at the movies, it is a taut and intelligent hybrid of a thriller that has as many effective ideas as a mind has brain cells.
... Identity is a rarity: a good movie made better by a twist you won't see coming.
a solid thriller - until it implodes. It gives you a savory first course, then rudely dumps seconds on your plate, even though you've already lost your appetite.
"Identity" makes for a good rainy-night rental.
Mangold stretches the pathology parameters into something a bit more depraved and decidedly bloodier, with even a touch of the supernatural. Or does he?
Algunas risas e insultos que se escucharon en la sala no me dejan mentir: Identidad es, llanamente, una decepción. Te promete que tu estadía en el motel va a ser cinco estrellas, y al final ni siquiera había motel.
Highly compelling, until the story's major revelation makes you feel totally cheated.
Agatha Christie certamente ficaria orgulhosa deste seu 'filhote'.
Here is a movie that's so good - so juicy in the dark secrets it keeps - that all I really want to say is to see it right now knowing as little about it as possible.
An enjoyably silly piece of pulp fiction, but the writer's main influence is undoubtedly Donald Kaufman, if you know what I mean.
Audience Reviews for Identity
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- Malcolm Rivers: As I was going up the stairs, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd go away.
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