Identity
Identity
| 05 July 2010 (USA)

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    Alicia

    I love this movie so much

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    BlazeLime

    Strong and Moving!

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    SpunkySelfTwitter

    It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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    Roxie

    The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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    Zimmerman Stein

    Shallow and predictable. Perfect for an American TV equivalent. The writing is obvious and sensational. The core cast's acting is abominable. The foil, Keeley Hawes is employed as a prop. Her presence is insufferably stilted. The show is a sound effects bonanza. John Lunn's music is dated, generic, and aggressively overused. The most enjoyable moments of the series are in episode five, thanks only to Clive Russell. The director, the writer, and the creator helped to make many episodes of the inspirational 'Waking the Dead', notably the final story, 'Waterloo'. But all the richness of that great show is lost to 'Identity'. This is the police procedural fallen victim to the lowest common denominator and, probably, decision by committee.

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    Tweekums

    Being a fan of police dramas and having recently enjoyed Keeley Hawes's performance in the BBC's excellent 'Ashes to Ashes'. This was nowhere near as good as that but I still enjoyed it. Keeley Hawes plays DSI Martha Lawson, the officer in charge of the department investigating identity theft. In the opening episode a new officer who has spent a lot of time working undercover joins the team. This man is DI John Bloom, played by Aidan Gillen, the rest of the team doesn't know it but he hasn't fully left his undercover life and it appears that he is still in far too deep. He even goes as far as to hide a body after the woman he was sleeping with; the sister of a man he sent to prison kills him, ironically the convict thought John was his friend and had asked him to kill the person he thought turned him in. While he is dealing with his undercover life he is also trying to deal with cases for his new unit although his absences are raising suspicions, especially after a prison officer calls DCI Lawson to tell her Bloom has visited the prison under two different names.The conclusion was a little over dramatic but I still found it exiting and while I thought it would work out I wasn't certain; a bad ending for a major character would have been a memorable conclusion but if there is to be another series it would be unlikely and personally I hope there is another series.While this wasn't the best detective series I still enjoyed it; Aidan Gillen was great as Bloom, I knew I'd seen him in something before but would never have guessed it was in 'The Wire' if I hadn't checked here. Keeley Hawes was also good although her role was smaller than I had expected, also notable was Shaun Parkes who played DS Anthony Wareing, the officer who was always slightly suspicious of Bloom. The story wasn't too believable, for example I don't think a policeman would keep a body in his own fridge... although it did lead to a nice moment when a colleague visited him at home and it looked like he might go for a beer.

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    farmertrouser

    No middle ground on this one - it's either incredibly dull (lots of office scenes in the style of spooks and 24 with the computer experts all staring excitedly at PC screens) or incredibly interesting but completely and frustratingly unbelievable. It would also appear that if Keeley Hawes is involved, the plot line will generally involve her wafting about an office, looking ultra-sophisticated, clutching a file/paper/clipboard and not generally doing a great deal, other than eyeing up a single colleague for future romantic storyline to keep us interested. I've managed to watch two episodes before giving up as I couldn't see where the plot could go(and yes I know there's the other storyline about John and his previous life with the dodgy gangsters that's going to come back to bite him, but given that John's character's not developed enough for me to care about his future, what's the point?) Surely no one would continue to employ someone that is THAT unreliable?? In the real world he'd have lost his job at the end of episode one having stabbed father of villain in the leg (in order to obtain vital information from evil villainous daughter - yes honestly)Am really disappointed. Particularly given the cast list. Bring back Luther.

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    kindredparadox

    Identity is a TV Series about identity theft. There are many departments in the police organization. These departments deal with specific criminal activities or way of finding the criminal, i.e. rape, psychology approach (Criminal Minds), etc. "Identity" deals with specific criminal activity that is finding the person who stolen identity of other person and use their identity and again act more serious crime.In the first 15 minutes of episode 1 of season 1 the film rather develop slowly and nearly boring, but after that it get more excited. This film should be more interesting for criminal investigation film buff, for person who likes other genre more I recommend to not watch this.

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