A hair-raising thriller that will have you rethinking the entire movie as you leave the theater.

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2003)

If you like your movies to adhere to stock Hollywood formulas and endings that can be foreseen twenty minutes in to the picture, then "Identity" is definitely not a movie for you. At first, the picture appears to be a somewhat conventional horror movie where unrelated guests stranded at a remote Nevada motel in a driving rainstorm are being systematically killed in gruesome fashion.
Even then, the superb acting carries the film - especially John Cusack as a limo driver trying to do the right thing and Amanda Peet as a world-wise prostitute. Eventually a parallel and seemingly unrelated story about a convicted killer who is about to be executed unless his lawyer can get him committed to an insane asylum begins to make its connection to the motel felt.
Without giving anything away, it will make your head spin and have you reexamining everything you have seen in order to figure out this brilliant puzzle. This is the best movie I have seen in some time.