I just saw this movie for the first time, and it made it into my top 20 worst movies ever. And honestly, of all the "psychological thrillers" I've seen, this may very well be the worst of them all.

About this movie, the concept is OK but it has one of the most ridicoulus and unbelievable stories I have ever witnessed in any movie of all time. It's also one of those movies where you try to ignore it but the movie just keeps shoving plot holes, inaccuracies, and bad dialogue in your face, until it's just shockingly bad.

The acting is also spotty, the characters are completely lifeless, there is literally almost no emotions portrayed here except overacted anger (very out of place, and sometimes even becomes comedy material, like the bathroom scene) or very bad crying woman scenes.

The main hero is good at literally everything, and he randomly throws some of those manly-man tantrums every once in a while like "I'm having a fucking bad day man!". Cool eh?… ok honestly the main guy is very annoying. Actually, the whole cast is kind of annoying and it's hard to sympathize with any one if them. And we never get to know anything really about their personalities. Despite the fact that, considering how the movie turns out, that would have been very interesting.

Overall the movie is very clumsily made, and feels very amateurish all the time. It's also very cheesy at times, and the acting surely doesn't help here. The standard "what do you want from us!?" scene is a good example of this, and it almost drove me to laugh out loud. Such things keeps this movie from ever becoming intense or suspenseful, and not even once did I care who the murderer was or about the (very bad) "twist".

It pretty much goes without saying that the ending was very poor and clumsy too, but I must point out that the "surprise" at the very end is so predictable that I really wonder what they were thinking there. Everyone must have seen that coming.

Overall, it felt like they didn't put much thought or effort into this at all, and just assumed the main audience of this would be complete idiots. Well, it seems they were right, judging by all the praise this gets.

The criminal Malcolm Rivers is sentenced to death for killing six people. On the night before his execution, a defense lawyer and a psychiatrist came with new evidence to defend him, which is his diaries (the notes were lost and now they are found) The criminal was writing what happens to him daily in these diaries, but every page is a different story with different fonts and different feelings, and there were ten people taking turns writing, not one person! This is the defense attorney’s argument that the criminal is crazy and schizophrenic, where each of these characters represents specific feelings of the criminal. (Paris) representing the criminal’s dream of happy life and happy future (Orange farm)! (Carolyn Suzanne, the actress) is the criminal’s arrogance and narcissism, as he sees himself as more important than everyone else and their lives are worth nothing in front of his most basic needs (as happened in the accident scene where she did not open the car door and did not give her phone even though the woman was fighting death)! (George Yok, father of the child) represents the organized personality of the criminal who walks by the rules to the letter. (John Cusack) The conscience of the criminal represents the good side of him in parentheses. On the street, he did not leave Paris even though he was in a hurry..He took a risk and went out of the hotel to look for a doctor, even though he knew that he was not there..In addition, he broke the car window and forced the actress out. He hit the accused, he shot the policeman, and when he saw the actress killed in the washing machine, he was not afraid or terrified. Rather, he stood quietly) All these things the criminal does, but when Ed (John Cusiak) aims for good... All these characters appear successively every day, one character does not meet another... To prove that the criminal is really schizophrenic, they hypnotized him and gather all the characters in a place which is the hotel (all the events that happened are in the mind of the criminal and not a reality) only one of his characters is the killer and of course the killer character will kill the rest of the characters and this is what happened.. surprised because He was looking for the killer and didn't kill them. Doctor Ladd explained that he should kill the rest of the characters so that Malcolm Rivers would be the only one so they wouldn't all die because if he was executed they would be finished so Ed did and killed the policeman and he died and left Paris (because she's kind and won't do Malcolm's harm). What happened in the end, which is the doctor’s mistake, of course, is his diagnosis that Ed is the killer, and this is a mistake because Timmy’s character was the killer. Second, he killed all the characters because Malcolm split into these characters. If they were all killed, Malcolm would die, so in the end Timmy (the killer) killed Paris and remained alone in control. The doctor and defense attorney were killed.....
I just translated this comment and brought it here for understanding:grinning:

His story's so unbelievable, I think it just might be true.

Identity is directed by James Mangold and written by Michael Cooney. It stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amada Peet, Clea DuVall, Rebecca De Mornay, Alfred Molina, John Hawkes, John C. McGinley, Jake Busey and Pruitt Taylor Vince. Music is by Alan Silvestri and cinematography by Phedon Papamichael Jr.

Inspired by Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians, Identity pitches 10 characters trapped at a motel who begin getting killed off one by one...

If you are going to do yet another take on Christies superb literary source then at least bring some freshness, so how nice to find that Identity does in fact ironically have its own. Set up is suitably in keeping with murder mystery shenanigans, there’s major flooding and our host of characters are bound to a shabby motel run by a shabby John Hawkes. On the edges of the frame we have another story where multiple killer Malcolm Rivers (the wonderful wobbly eyed P.T. Vince) is under interrogation to test for insanity to stave off his impending execution.

Mangold uses flashbacks to put the various characters at the motel, in how they came to be there. There’s a creative ambitiousness about how Mangold constructs the pic that draws you in, which come the finale will either have you satiated or stupefied. The murder sequences are very well put together, with a couple being well ghoulish, and it’s a very impressive cast of actors working their way through the formulaic but fascinatingly cheat free psychological murk.

It’s not as smart as it thinks it is but this has enough of an absorbing pull, and no little intelligence, to lift it higher than many other Agatha 10 copies. 7/10

Awesome movie. One of my favorites. Very suspenseful. Keeps you interested till the end. The only thing that sucks is once you watch it once, it ruins to watch it again cause you know exactly what's going on. Worth a watch for sure.

**Overall : One of the best plot twists I have ever seen!**

Identity masterfully surprises and misleads every step of the way. What seems to be a run-of-the-mill slasher flick at a rundown motel on a stormy night is anything but average. With incredibly clever writing, Identity is a wild ride that will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat from start to finish. Even if you are a pro at guessing who the killer is or catching plot twists before they happen, you will be shocked again and again by the twists and turns Identity takes. While it isn't a perfect movie, its creativity and rare brilliance make Identity a must-see film.