Identity (DVD, 2003, Special Edition)

90 minutes, full-screen & Widescreen version, CC, R. I rate film only 4****.

A hotel meets ten strangers in a ravaging storm wiping out roads. Stranded from no where to go murder by numbers and I mean 1, 2, 3, keys that are literally ruled by death of each stranger staying in the motel rooms will dye by numbered rooms one by one after each other. Each time a motel room numbered key is found on each victim.

CAST----- Limo driver (John Cusack)----- '80's TV star (Rebecca DeMornay)----- Pretend Cop (Ray Liotta) ----- Serial killer (Jake Busey)----- Call girl (Amanda Peet)----- Newweds (Clea DuVall and William Lee Scott) ----- One family (John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr)----- Motel manager (John Hawkes).

One by one each dies and nobody knows who did it. Ten becomes nine, eight, seven under suspense/mystery. Films twists were cleverly interesting. Cusack takes everyone and decides he his in charge but really isn’t after the film starts puzzling conflicts. A prisoner is transported by a cop in the beginning of the film. Wait till you see the ending of the film, you really don’t catch it right away until you think about it. I actually replayed the end to see the last “key”.

90 minutes moves the film in a momentum speed, I rated film 4**** because some role acting was cheesy. As soon as they tried to leave the motel and the cop who isn’t a real cop brings everyone back to the motel you already know the tensely is something of murder.

You have a convicted murderer and a bleak motel one that looks like the Bates motel and roads that get washed away both directions. Yeah all the action is going to take place in one area of the whole film.

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