{"id":3495,"date":"2021-09-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2023-01-22T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:20:28","slug":"media-identity-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"FiLM REViEW: Identity, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1343-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3496\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1343-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1343-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1343-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1343.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_06_three-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We watched this last night. Quite a star-studded cast. John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Jake Busey, Rebecca DeMornay, Alf Molina. Set on a very rainy night, a bunch of random folk wind up in a motel. And then people start being murdered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it gets off to a quite compelling start, once underway, the first two-thirds of the film are quite familiar territory, in some respects. But there is an undercurrent that\u2019s kind of perplexing, suggesting we might be heading towards a supernatural thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we\u2019re not, thank goodness! But it\u2019s not far off that. There is a major twist, which kind of turns things upside down, or inside out. I won\u2019t give it away. By the time the film ends, I was both impressed with, and simultaneously somewhat disappointed by, the various turns the movie took. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I liked the rainy setting, and the whole grim dark ambience. The cast and direction are good. It\u2019s pretty dark and violent (my wife Teresa didn\u2019t like it, because of the latter). As it recedes from me, I start to feel it wasn\u2019t quite all that. A good ride whilst watching, with one quite clever idea, but otherwise quite formulaic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026 downgraded from four to three stars. Entertaining but far from essential viewing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched this last night. Quite a star-studded cast. John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Jake Busey, Rebecca DeMornay, Alf Molina. Set on a very rainy night, a bunch of random folk wind up in a motel. And then people start being murdered. Although it gets off to a quite compelling start, once underway, the first two-thirds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3495\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FiLM REViEW: Identity, 2003&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-Un","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}