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Identity is a film that will divide audiences -- the twists of its plot will either impress or exasperate you.
All Critics (172) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (66) | DVD (16)
A lame-brained nut job in search of an identity of its own. May 16, 2003 | Full Review…
A lame-brained nut job in search of an identity of its own.
Rex Reed
A nihilist project in Usual Suspects mode: Nothing is as it seems, because nothing matters in the least. Apr 29, 2003
A nihilist project in Usual Suspects mode: Nothing is as it seems, because nothing matters in the least.
Dennis Lim
[A] very well made horror thriller. Apr 28, 2003
[A] very well made horror thriller.
Richard Roeper
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. Apr 25, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
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.
Geoff Pevere
Deserves credit for at least trying something fresh in the psychological-thriller realm, and for the mood of goofball creepiness it creates. Apr 25, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4
Deserves credit for at least trying something fresh in the psychological-thriller realm, and for the mood of goofball creepiness it creates.
Moira MacDonald
More than an entertaining thriller. It's a highly original one. Apr 25, 2003 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
More than an entertaining thriller. It's a highly original one.
Mick LaSalle
My eyeballs were doing some serious rolling of their own at the general ineptitude of this failed mating of Friday the 13th and Ten Little Indians. Feb 9, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
My eyeballs were doing some serious rolling of their own at the general ineptitude of this failed mating of Friday the 13th and Ten Little Indians.
Steve Newton
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. Jun 11, 2013 | Full Review…
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.
Anton Bitel
Scary beyond belief serial killer thriller. Dec 24, 2010 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Scary beyond belief serial killer thriller.
Nell Minow
A good cast is enacting this fancy rubbish; what drew them to the material besides its self-conscious cleverness is beyond me. Sep 24, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
A good cast is enacting this fancy rubbish; what drew them to the material besides its self-conscious cleverness is beyond me.
Rob Gonsalves
The cast is game, the twists are clever, the writing is tight. May 10, 2007 | Rating: B | Full Review…
The cast is game, the twists are clever, the writing is tight.
Christopher Smith
An ingenious thriller molded from Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". The film's incredibly entertaining even with the measurably predictable twist. Aug 8, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
An ingenious thriller molded from Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". The film's incredibly entertaining even with the measurably predictable twist.
Wesley Lovell
An intriguing, tense and solidly structured thriller centered on a mystery that is pretty well developed - even if it cannot escape the clichés of the genre -, but what makes it stand out is how it turns out to be much more intelligent than it seems despite its flaws and absurdities.
Super Reviewer
An entertaining, if heavily problematic, exercise in the same universe as "The Usual Suspects" concerning a group of strangers, who seemingly have no connection with one another, stranded at a motel during a dark, rainy night, before one by one they begin to get mysteriously killed. On first watch of this film a few years back, I thought it was a little lame. However, after revisiting it, I have to say it's a tad better than what I had remembered. Notably, the acting raises this movie above "bad" status, thanks mainly to the always dependable John Cusack sweeping in for the rescue. The twists and turns (including one big mega super duper ultra twist) are well executed, although there are certainly more than one plot hole that one can discover rather easily. Still, for being a short little thriller, it conjures up enough atmosphere and curiosity in these characters to make you wonder what is going to happen next. Far from perfect, but also not terrible.
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This is how thriller should be, Good suspense, good story, nice twists!
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