An original take on a traditional idea

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2018)

Ten strangers are brought together at a remote desert motel one stormy night. Before long, a series of murders begins to whittle them down. But all is not what it seems.
The defining factor of Identity is its twist-in-the-tail ending. It seems to have divided audiences on account of this. But I for one think it works really well. The idea of the dramas playing out being the strange fruits of some sort of conflict within the mind of a maniac with a multiple personality disorder is quite a good one and allows the story to go off in over-the-top directions with the fall back that it is after all not real and the imaginings of a psychologically troubled individual. For this reason I guess you could argue that the story could have dipped into even more surreal ideas if anything - events do seem a little more generic than they needed to be given the opportunity the central idea allows for the story to go wild and unhinged directions. The main narrative is effectively a combination of a whodunit with some slasher movie elements. It's not a classic and it could have used its potential better but it remains a nicely original take on a traditional genre nevertheless.