A Chilling Night At The Motel

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2007)

*Identity SPOILERS*
10 people - a limo-driver and former cop (John Cusack), a spoiled TV actress (Rebecca DeMornay), a former prostitute trying to change her life around (Amanda Peet), a cop (Ray Liotta) and the convict he's transporting (Jake Busey), a young couple of newlyweds (William Lee Scott and Clea DuVall), a family (Leila Kenzle, John C. McGinley and Bret Loehr) and the motel owner (John Hawkes) - end up getting stuck in a motel because of the pouring rain.
But not long after they're all settled, one of the guests is found dead, with the key for room Number 10. A few minutes after, the key for room 9 is found in the hands of a second dead body, and as the murders continue, the keys keep on being found near the bodies, and the survivors huddle together to survive the macabre countdown, but who is the killer among them? And what does a mass murderer (Pruitt Taylor Vince) have to do with them?
'Identity' is quite the surprise; it starts off as a 'Psycho-meets-And Then There Were None' thriller, and after half of the leads have been killed, it shoots out a plot twist that makes you rethink what you saw until then in one of the cleverest ways I have ever seen. A second plot twist is the killer's identity - don't rule any of the 10 off until they die.
The acting is wonderful, especially from Loehr, McGinley, DuVall, Scott, Peet and Cusack, the script is tight, the music and lighting are quite appropriate, the scenery is creepy as Hell and the directing is very good.
I consider this a movie to own.
Identity: 9/10.