The Identity Review

RYAN: It’s really the most random of months for new releases and this one didn’t even screen for critics but we caught a Thursday night sneak; it has a questionable premise to begin with and turns out to be a subpar movie.  Who knows how they got Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd to sign into this movie.  It’s a first time director and the star, Blake Rayne, hasn’t been in a movie before. He was an Elvis impersonator who was cast and then took acting lessons… after being cast!  It’s like these people just fell out of the sky and made a movie.

LEAH: How did they get it past the development process?

RYAN: Fair question.  Let’s get the minimal decent things about the movie out of the way.

LEAH: The production design was great.  The costume design was good.

RYAN: All of the period sets and props and look was well done.

LEAH: Beyond that…

RYAN: I liked the performance numbers. It’s a movie with music, like Get on Up. And the musical scenes worked better than the dramatic scenes.  And the lip syncing wasn’t very good.  The main character is such an awkward ripoff of Elvis and yet it has nothing to do with Elvis.  The whole identical twins storyline is weird and riddled with missed opportunities.

LEAH: The Elvis lookalike and his voice, the way he moved, all makes it even weirder.  They should have made him an original character instead of so Elvis-like.

RYAN: Or they should have just made a straightforward Elvis biopic – would have been better.

LEAH: There’s one in the works.

RYAN: Oh ok.  The makeup was horrible.  Ray Liotta and Ashley Judd play husband and wife and while he ages from, like, 30s to 80s, she ages from like 30s to 40s… in the same amount of time.  It was so bad and inconsistent.

LEAH: That was crazy and unbelievable.

RYAN: The score is so amateurish and really brought the whole production level down.

LEAH: It made it feel like a made for TV movie.

RYAN: It’s stagnant.  You feel like you’re on a road trip, looking out the window for most of it.

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