Identity

Far from a perfect movie, but entertaining none the less. A lot of the critiques on the other review are written as if this movie was intended to be more then it is, a pop-corn entertainer...and it achieves just that.

I wouldn't spend much money on this movie, but if you're getting it from the library anyways it's something I can recommend. Oh and the "walking stereotypes" are there for a reason...not necessarily all that clever of a reason but still it's part of the plot so it's not fair to critique it as a negative aspect of the movie.

When I hear that something is similar to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None I already expect to be a little disappointed. It is not possible for a whodunit to come close to touching And Then There Were None. With that said, I did at least expect to be entertained. The back of the box described it as the greatest modern thriller the reviewer had ever seen... Do not listen to the hype.

It started off well enough. A group of strangers are stranded for one reason or the other in an area of desert outside of Las Vegas. It's a blustery, rainy night. Ten people stay in a motel to wait for the flooded roadways to clear, each character like a walking stereotype. The wise ex-cop, the manipulative con-man, the seedy motel manager, etc. People are brutally murdered one by one, and then the remaining members of the group come to a shocking realization about what common circumstances may have brought them together.

I can't reveal the ending, but the writers of the movie should have stuck to a traditional mystery format rather than the direction they took it. It seems like creating a movie like this was inevitable, someone at some point was going to create this plot twist, but they should have left it to B-movie writers. A movie that took itself less seriously would have handled this material better. Anyway, I regret watching it, it was depressing.