Laughable

Rating: 1/10 (19 July 2006)

movies these days have been going downhill fast. Identity was merely one of the first of many movies to signal such times. The movie pretends to take place in reality when in fact it takes place inside the head of a psycho and all the characters are personalities. There is one huge basic problem with this sort of story: personalities are personalities, not people. They do not interact with other personalities and figuratively or literally kill each other such as portrayed in the movie. The true interactivity comes from the outside and not the inside of the brain. The other problem is the truth of this story takes all of the so-called "thrilling" aspects out of the film and turns it into something sub-standard. Identity almost manages to make itself a B-movie, but little else.