Well it's fine, until... SPOILERS

Rating: 5/10 (8 August 2004)

Once every while you watch a movie that you thouroughly enjoy, but still feel cheated afterwards. 'Identity' must be the ultimate movie in that category, as it's spooky, stylish, dark and scary, but ultimately very unsatisfying.
Ten people are being forced to stay in a motel for the night after a storm flooded all the highway exits. Soon, the character mysteriously die one at a time (think 10 little indians), and it's up to main character Ed (John Cusack) to figure out just what is happening.
It sounds like an exciting story, and it is. The actors (besides Cusack we see - amongst others - Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet) are fine, the atmosphere just right and the story entertaining as well as dark. But then, about 3/4 into the movie, the writers spoil it by completely explain the plot and what the heck is going on.
(SPOILERS BEGIN) It turns out Cusack really is one of 10 identities a serial killer has, and the others in the motel are the other 9. One of those 10 is a killer, while the others may not be as harmful. The real killer's lawyer wants to establish this so he can plead insanity, and the killer won't get the death penalty. The idea of the lawyer is to have Cusack kill of the murderer in his mind, so he won't be a danger anymore. There, got it?
It's all a bit silly, come to think of it, but the worst part is that it is all happening after 3/4 of the movie. So the last 20 minutes or so, when tension should rise, you're watching a movie about fictious people, to save the life of a known serial killer. That's not really helping the story, to put it mildly.
Enough has been said about the ending, it's just so stupid I won't waste any words on it. Identity could've been such a good movie, now it's just entertaining until that very moment everything is revealed...
5/10.