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Identity (2003)
A thriller short on thrills
While not as bad as I feared, the film was ultimately a disappointment. The elements of the plot are so cliched that it reminded me of something that Donald Kaufman (the less-talented fictional brother in "Adaptation") might have successfully pitched. The "big revelation" was heavily telegraphed beforehand and only elicited a ho-hum response from the audience, and by the end of the movie I was thoroughly bored (although one woman in the row behind me loudly stated "I don't get it" when the film ended, but that's LA audiences for you).
Blind Spot (1947)
A B-Movie Noir that's so bad it's good
This film is a must for fans of noir and b-movies. The hero is a semi-alcoholic writer, wrongly accused of a murder committed while he was drunk.
The actor plays this drunk so obnoxiously that he will have you cringing in your seat, begging for him to finally pass out. It's the acting equivalent of fingernails on a chalk board. What saves the movie and makes it worth seeing are the incredibly over-the-top lines the writer cooked up.
These include: "the heat sapped my vitality like ten thousand blood-thirsty dwarves," "a ghost-writer is like drugs," "plagiarism is inscribing my name on another man's pen," and "when I want poetry, I read Walt Whitman."
Good for a laugh.