The 3

Rating: Null/10 (22 January 2004)

Identity feels like the fictional screenplay "The 3" written by Donald Kaufman in "Adaptation". It has all the markings of a pretty well-structured horror film, but most of the cliches, too, including the--stop reading if you haven't seen it-- ruinous multiple personality cop-out ending. If the writers really thought that all the characters existing in the mind of one man would be "the payoff" (as Maggie Gyllenhaal's character in Adaptation suggested of "the 3"), then they're fooling themselves, and cheating too many of us out of our $10. (Luckily I saw it on a plane so I only lost two hours of my life. Still, I'd like them back.)