When X2 Is Sold Out...

Rating: 2/10 (4 May 2003)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** Well, I saw this movie on a whim because X-Men 2 was sold out and all of my friends are HUGE Cusack fans. So I was going into it with NO expectations whatsoever... well, I did watch Ebert and Roeper a while ago and they gave it "one thumb up" so that was it.
Right... well, the premise of the movie: 10 strangers, one hotel, twists and turns, stabby stabby. A ton of this movie was SO predictable but yet I thought that aspects of the ending were not as predictable. Sure, people call the Schitzo take on everything unoriginal and stuff but I thought that that aspect of the movie was not predictable at all... until everything comes together near the end.
SO MUCH POTENTIAL and it was all lost with "little timmy". IDENTITY had the potential of an EXCELLENT psychological thriller with the schitzo thing but it was all lost inthe very very end with little timmy and his CHEEZY line "Whores don't get a second chance". THey should have ended it on a happy note with Ray Liotta being the murdering personality like he was instead of stupid timmy. As soon as Paris finds the key and looks up and sees timmy there I BURST out laughing... my friends did too... then he said his crappy end line and everyone booed the movie. TERRIBLE! All the potential for a good movie was lost in the cheezy end line. My respect for the movie was lost... I was thinking "hmmm, that was really good and serine... nice ending..."
Up until 5 minutes before the end, 8/10... because of the ending, 3/10
I'm wondering what the director was thinking leaving that ending in... it would make a good "DVD Alternate Ending" but not for the actual movie.