Bad twist in a good movie

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2005)

When I was watching Identity, for first 40 minutes of a movie I was thrilled. I thought, now THIS is a GOOD MOVIE. Great actors, especially Cusak and Liotta, great horror-thriller atmosphere: heavy rain, night, scary motel in middle of nowhere, homicides... well, I was very enjoying this. Idea of movie is obviously taken from Agatha Christy's novel 'Ten little Indians' and that was fine with me. Ten mysteriously connected strangers caught up in a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere with scary motel owner. And then one by one, ten strangers are being murdered. Brrrr! Who is the killer? How are those people connected? Then, circa 40 minutes into the movie, there's strange plot twist happening. And spoils everything. Since that moment, I don't care about people in motel, because I know they do not really exist. I know who is a killer (at this moment it's pretty much obvious). I don't care about rest of the movie. It's just not interesting anymore. I even feel cheated. The end is just stupid. We discover who the killer is and we knew that already since we saw the plot 40 min into the movie. I could predict exactly what will happen and it spoiled second half of the movie. Then comes end. Stupid. Why did they let dangerous killer drive without any real security? Who in the right mind would fall for that old trick "Aghhhhh, I feel bad, open the cage!!!!" 7 stars because first half is great.