Identity

Mr E

The first hour is great - brilliant set up, good build up of tension (and bodies!), but then it loses the plot completely after an hour when

the whole identities thing is explained.... I mean, WTF??

Worth a watch, but I expected more.

- Dave.

EricM

it was brilliant
one of the best horror movies ive seen in a while

koneko

Originally posted by TmB
Worth a watch, but I expected more.

A standard whodunnit?

Good film, I enjoyed it.

Enjoyed the confused scumbags' conversations afterwards more. "So who did it? I don't understand". Bless.

Mr E

Its probably better thought of as a suspenseful horror than a standard thriller-by-numbers. It was certainly different, I'll give it that!

I knew that there was a

twist at the end

, but I wasn't expecting the

mindf*ck 20 minutes from the end.... the actual twist was a bit of a letdown after that!

- Dave.

lamda

Yeh I really enjoyed it although I thought John Cusack was a little wooden...
But the plot itself was really good.. it was one of those "i didnt see that coming!!" films.
Although

I knew it would turn out to be the kid..its ALWAYS the creepy kid.

And the

death with the baseball bat!!

NICE!!:D

Shad0r

Sorry for digging up an old thread but I just watched the flick and thought it was brilliant.

Maybe its because I didnt have any expectation as I knew nothing about it before I started to watch it. Very atmospheric, good direction, especially considering it was completely different than anything that James Mangold has done to date.

I forgot all about the kid!

"The I inside", (written by Michael Cooney - the same guy's latest flick) could be interesting...

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Shad0r
Sorry for digging up an old thread but I just watched the flick and thought it was brilliant.

"The I inside", (written by Michael Cooney - the same guy's latest flick) could be interesting...

I finally got to see this film on Friday, and thought it was absolutely fantastic. Yeah, it was by-the-numbers (I pegged exactly who the 'killer' was after the second killing), and yeah, the 'twist' at the end was a little redundant (and ruined slightly by the flashback sequence), but it was done with so much style that I really didn't mind either of these. When the 'mindfuck' came along, I remember grinning from ear to ear, because it was something I hadn't really seen done like this before. Also, it was easily one of the most atmospheric films I had seen in a long time, with the rain and general sense of tension.

I also have a major boner for Clea DuVall and Pruitt Taylor Vince, so that always helps.

I kinda wished there was some way they could have gotten the kid from Pet Semetary to play the kid in Identity - when the kid walked away from the car explosion, I really, really thought the director was trying to get that kind of look from the kid

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