Sunday, March 13, 2011

Identity (2003)

Whats it about:
A criminal who has committed multiple homicides, Malcolm Rivers is about to be executed when his doctor and lawyer reopen his case for insanity. Then, a motel is shown on a rainy night. Many personalities are caught up in the motel by circumstance. Among them, a hooker, a young couple, a cop and his convict, an ex cop, an actress and a family of 3.
                    One by one, they are eliminated in strange circumstances. We come to know later that all the characters that are shown at the motel are actually Malcolm Rivers' multiple personalities. Slowly he is in the process of killing the personalities that are within himself. He is assigned to the state hospital. Just when we think that he is slowly getting to terms with himself, the violent side of his personality again takes over and the credits roll.

                                                                          

Hits
  • Intriguing concept
  • The rainy visuals at the motel are surreal and spooky  
  • The actor who plays the troubled psycho Malcolm Rivers is A rate with his expressions of anguish and girth. 
Misses
  • Once we come to know that the events at the motel are actually Malcolm's mind plays, the further scenes where the remaining personalities are killed aren't as intriguing as the initial murders when we suspect that there are actually multiple crime scenes taking place
VERDICT
Another intriguing psycho movie with Multiple Personality Syndrome as the theme. 


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