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Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2003)

Identity is the kind of movie you do NOT want to read about before you see it and especially not here at imdb - spoilers are everywhere. That being said, I will tell you that the film is an extremely effective little psychological thriller that I really enjoyed because I figured it out - in 3 stages - from the clues given, and I got to have the supreme and intense pleasure of indeed seeing it play out the way I had deduced that it must. So for me, the ending was not a surprise (it was the only logical conclusion), but this didn't ruin the film for me or make it predictable in a bad way; in fact it actually ENHANCED the reward of the experience.
The movie doesn't have enough psychological nuance to make it a masterpiece (like, for example The Sixth Sense) but I still got the chills at the end even though I had figured it out - this speaks volumes about its effectiveness.