Orange is the Color of Death

Rating: 8/10 (14 November 2003)

A bunch of people trapped in a small motel ,A huge storm is roaring outside and no body can get out ,All the communications has been cut off ,And one of them is wounded in an weird car accident before she reaches the motel ,They are completely strangers to each other ,And soon things starts to take a dark curve with people turning up dead one by one ,They discovers that the killings is taking a sequential queue ,Till this point things are pretty normal for your ordinary thriller which you can find any where including many of the straight to video titles ,But after that the movie tends towards the unknown....hideous truth .
I haven't known before that IDENTITY may have taken reference from a story by Agatha Christie called (Ten Little Indians) until I have read that in one of the British movie magazines , But that doesn't mean that this IDENTITY is limited to the usual boundaries of ordinary thrillers ,It just took the primal concept from the books where the same events of completely unrelated characters are gathered in one place and after that the serial killings begins ,And after that the story took flight in a whole new lands of imagination ,And in my opinion this is the first strength point of IDENTITY.
The movie succeeded in creating a terrifying atmosphere with using of rain and darkness to give the viewers the feel of trapness of the characters gathered there ,The plot seemed to fly from a point to another without stopping ,Things are revealed and relations are formed but thankfully in unstereotypical method ,The Screenplay written by Michael Cooney gave every character almost an equal share of the screen time depends on the situation and the events paths ,And didn't represent any insignificant character so you have your concerns about all of them ,And Director James Mangold was very good in controlling such brilliant actors like Ray Liotta and John Cusack who both delivered a top notch performance especially from cusack who was very indulged in his role to the maximum degree .
IDENTITY doesn't give you a chance to nod off ,It totally grips you from the first moments ,And the most important Excellency feature is that the ability to create twists without giving the viewer any feeling that the represented twist was put there intentional just to satisfy the viewers hungry for a plot's twist in every thriller they see ,Actually The main twist in the third third of the movie into higher land ,And was a good model for what should the twists made ,It completely blows your expectations away ,And it really gave this movie a very creepy feeling .
IDENTITY is a very respectful thriller ,Created with brilliance and talent ,Only some insignificant sequences during the last twenty moments prohibits it from getting the five stars rating ,But that MUSTN'T stop you from watching ,You will remain dizzy minded after watching it for no less than long time .