We don't rent rooms by the hour.....

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2015)

Strangers from all different walks of life.......a limo driver escorting a fading television star, parents with a young son whose marriage is in crisis, a cop transporting a dangerous convict, a beautiful call girl, a couple of young newlyweds, and a nervous motel manager are stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada, due to torrential weather.
Soon they realise they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, they start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there.
Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial........
But how do the two narratives connect? Is there really two narratives? Is there any narrative structure?....
Identity is one of those films that you really dislike for some unknown reason, but keep going back to because of all the praise its received. So after my fifth revisit to the film, it finally became clear to me, I couldn't care less about the characters because there wasn't one likable thing about any of them.
Yes, that may be something to do with the twist, but not one sympathetic character out of any of them? Pert may be some peoples answers, but she gets to much aggression from multiple people, that by the end of the second act, she becomes the aggressor herself.
Cusack, usually brilliant, just appears to be on autopilot the whole way through the film, and Liotta's trademark shouty authoritative schtick is becoming more and more tiresome as his career choices.
So that's the film, a group of unlikeable characters stuck in a hotel, with insufferable weather, and attitudes.
Regardless of the twist, I'm sure they would have all come to a sticky end.
Poor stuff, despite an advantageous twist.