Identity is the unwelcome new face of Hollywood horror: loud, empty, unimaginative and as far from Alfred Hitchcock as a movie can be.
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04/27/03
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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.
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $51,475,962
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
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Reviews for Identity
I was laughing right along with the rest of the audience during the final minutes.
04/26/03
The best thing about Identity cannot be put in a review. I beg you all to close your eyes and ears to all press (except no-spoilers Cinerina!) until you have seen it.
04/26/03
An entertaining contrivance of serial murder in a confined place.
04/26/03
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04/26/03
Just what you want a horror-thriller to be: energetic, lurid, tense and, above all, unpredictable.
04/26/03
Turns out to be preposterous shlock, more like a 'Nightmare on Elm Street' sequel than a Shyamalan flick.
04/26/03
A surprisingly challenging and rewarding motion picture experience, as ruminous and unforgettable as it is thrillingly spooky and suspenseful.
04/26/03
Filmed on a set that looks as if it has been lovingly and skillfully resurrected from the Bates Motel lot, Identity deftly weaves a familiar yarn around an homage to a screen classic.
04/25/03
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.
04/25/03
Top CriticYou walk out of the theater feeling you've been duped but that they did it fair and square.
04/25/03
It will either leave you giddy at the audacity or moaning at the stupidity.
04/25/03
Deserves credit for at least trying something fresh in the psychological-thriller realm, and for the mood of goofball creepiness it creates.
04/25/03
Appropriately and effectively creepy, the film had me going for a long time, trying to figure out what the explanation and/or surprise was going to be.
04/25/03
More than an entertaining thriller. It's a highly original one.
04/25/03
Top CriticThe dense rain that falls throughout Identity is no natural rain -- it's runoff from the Hollywood bilge tank of bad ideas.
04/25/03
What's terrific about Mangold is that he doesn't slavishly clone other, earlier films but actually tries to bring something fresh to the familiar.
04/25/03
Oh, so it isn't the same flick I've seen a dozen times before!
04/25/03
A Ten Little Thespians murder-rama that gets a bit of a lift from thespians who aren't so little, in terms of ability.
04/25/03
It's gory, it's bleak, it's shamelessly tricky -- and it's also a good deal more fun than it had any right to be.
04/25/03
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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