Good until the third and final act.

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2019)

This was a genuinely decent film for the first two acts. There was suspense, there was an omnipresent sense of mystery, the plot twists were nicely thought out and the characters were good enough to make me care about what was gonna happen to them and what would eventually happen to them. Even though it did feel formulaic and kinda cliched because there have been plenty of movies in the past with similar concepts to Identity, it was all easily overlooked thanks to its excellent execution.
Unfortunately, that's where it stops being good. By the time we reached the final act, it went downhill really fast. As soon as one grand plot twist presented itself to the viewer, another plot twist that was twice as grand as the previous twist was shown. And then it did it again. And again and again.
Usually, I don't have a problem with movies that have quite a few too many plot twists so long as they maintain the sense that whoever is writing it is competent enough to handle its story, but when you bombard the viewer with a ridiculous number of plot twists that the story becomes too convoluted to properly follow, then that's the point of when you should realize that you're doing something totally wrong, but this movie didn't get the memo.
Instead, it continued to move right ahead to inject even more plot twists trying to out think itself that it backfired as a result. What we got in the end was an overblown movie that got so gluttonous that it consumed more calories than it could handle, only to vomit away all of its food as punishment for eating way too much.
For all of its merits that this movie had, there were an equal number of blemishes that balanced out its merits to create what I'd consider an average movie. It's too bad, really. If the third act didn't stray away from what the movie was trying to do with its first two acts, then maybe it would've been decent because that's what I certainly thought it was going to be.