Identity

April 27, 2003

Anyone paying attention to the timestamps, I’m not actually burning away an hour for each entry here. I’m actually knocking out each entry every time I break away from playing video games (Zelda, Def Jam Vendetta and Gungrave, if you were wondering).

ANYWAY, last night’s movie was Identity, the new psychothriller from James Mangold (Heavy, Copland) starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet and Ray Liotta among others. It’s a new twist on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None (or Ten Little Indians), as ten strangers end up stranded in a Nevada motel to find themselves getting knocked off one by one, in increasingly weirder and weirder circumstances. It’s pretty scary, has some good acting performances and some really cool scenes (the laundry room scene is awesome), but the central conceit and the way it is revealed in the movie is so ludicrous that I ended up laughing throughout the entire second half of the film. Maybe I ruined it for myself by outguessing it about halfway through.

I can’t really go on without giving away the movie… bug me personally if you really want to know what the movie’s about, and why the movie makes me think of “Adaptation.”

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