clever little thriller movie, but not original

Rating: 8/10 (25 October 2003)

Identity is a very interesting film as it manages to create a very good atmosphere, where fear and darkness is always in the air. it has a good script, the acting is strong, and its not the average type of slasher film that ussually come out of america, so it stands out. However this movie is not at all original, no matter how well done its filmed. It actually reminds me 3 films and i think it has taken their basic ideas and made it into one movie. Those are final destination, ussual suspects and primal fear. Final destination gives the idea of the patern of the deaths with the key numbers, ussual suspects gives the idea of the fake character story that all have something in common and you dont discover this till the end, and primal fear the multiple personality aspect. offcource it borrows things from other films too, like from hitchkok's type of films, with the single location type of shooting and spooky atmosphere and more.....
so to sum up, i really enjoyed this movie, cusack and liota are 2 actors i dont really like a lot, but their performances here were prety good. Well worth to check, i give it an 8 and if it was more original it would have been higher