10 Movie Murders That Were Utterly Impossible To Solve

2. Identity

The grand daddy of cheap twist endings in whodunits absolutely has to be this 2003 film which purported to be a loose adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (the one that used to have a super racist title before cooler, less prejudiced heads prevailed), except instead of taking the incredibly complex but compelling explanation of that murdery mystery, Identity came up with its own. And it was terrible. And it made audiences wonder why John Cusack would possibly agree to be involved in such an idiotic film. Ray Liotta, less surprising. Ten strangers find themselves stranded in the middle of a torrential rainstorm at a remote Nevada motel, and weird stuff starts happening. Concurrently, convicted murderer Malcolm Rivers awaits execution on death row. Throughout the plot of the ten strangers being slowly but surely bumped off you keep expecting it to somehow get tied into the Rivers story and, eventually, it does - albeit in the worst way possible. For the majority of the running time it genuinely seems like any of the characters could be the killer, as Identity constantly keeps audiences on their toes; only to squander that whole thing by revealing that all the stuff with the motel is happening in the head of Rivers. He has multiple personalities, you see. So you just wasted ninety minutes trying to figure out the killer, and he never existed. Bleh.