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EENY-MEENY-MINY-MO, ONE PERSONALITY LEFT TO GO The following is a slight variation on the little poem that was recited by the Mental Patient to the Shrink at the beginning of this flick.... As I was going up the stair, I met a man who had no hair, He had no hair again today, I wish, I wish he'd 'F' OFF (or, at least, wear a toupee). The term used in IDENTITY is 'Multiple-Personality Disorder'(or, MPD for short). This term is somewhat misleading when you realistically consider the mental patient in this flick. In real-life MPD is extremely rare. There have only been about 6 authentic and known cases of MPD ever documented and verified, world-wide. The patient in IDENTITY is not a multiple-personality case in a clinical sense, only in a 'movie' sense. He is schizophrenic, to be sure, and suffering from an acute case of a fragmented personality. Yeah, that's right. His 'One-and-Only' personality, due to a severely traumatic childhood, has been split and fractured to the point that it appears he is afflicted with MPD, but he's not. The Shrink in IDENTITY who's treating this Schizo for MPD is an idiot. IDENTITY has got to be one of screwiest flicks that I have seen to date. IDENTITY deliberately misleads the audience (which I don't mind). IDENTITY purposely confuses and tricks one into thinking they're actually watching 2 separate movies at the same time, but, in reality they're not. It seems that these 2 flicks have been inexplicably spliced together. But the truth is it's just one tangled and intertwined story that, literally, takes reaching the end of the film before the logical side of things get ironed out. Well, sort of. IDENTITY's story is so convoluted and incoherent, at times, that if we were all schizos ourselves to begin with, then we might be able to appreciate this flick to its fullest. IDENTITY's story revolves around 10 'so-called' strangers who, during a dark and violently stormy night, all end up congregating at some rundown, rinky-dink motel set out in No-Mans-Land in the middle of the Arizona Desert. Just like the movie TEN LITTLE INDIANS they all start to get bumped off, one by one. Who's behind these brutal murders, and why this is happening, is a movie plot-twist that, I suppose, is intended to end all movie plot-twists. You judge for yourself and then tell me that Hollywood doesn't overplay mental-disorder, and such, to the point of being downright RIDICULOUS far too often. The cast of IDENTITY is headed by the talents of, none other than, Mr. Leave-It-To-Beaver, JOHN CUSACK, and Mr. Damage-Face, RAY LIOTTA. email this review to a friend
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Apr 5, 2008 1:22 AM
Maybe, like you, if I watch IDENTITY for a 2nd time I can appreciate it for being just a movie-thriller, and that's all.
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