rpn313 Found this movie by accident after watching "Coherence" and looking for other titles featuring the gorgeous Emily Foxler (Baldoni). And while she looked amazing in this film, I had to ask myself at the end, was it really worth wasting 1.5 hours of your life for? I'm still debating. Because despite Emily being pure eye candy (and she actually did a decent job given the material she had to work with)... this movie is a slow root canal with no anesthesia. It starts with an interesting premise, sort of, but just progressively devolves into a drawn out boring mess.What in the world is Ed Asner doing in a film like this? Is he that hard up for work?

lavatch "Identical" was billed as a film that was "inspired by true events." Apparently, the true events were the biblical story of Cain and Abel. But the storyline was hopelessly confused, and, as it developed, it veered far way from the original story in the Book of Genesis.The film opens in Borough Park, Brooklyn. The year is 1974. A woman is walking along the street, then drops to the ground and begins delivering a baby. Following the joy of the moment, the woman recognizes that she is about to pop out a second baby. She does not look pleased at all with that prospect.As the two little boys in this middle-class family are growing up, it is clear that the parents loathe, mistreat, and even abuse one of the boys. While the details are murky, it appears as though one of the two boys later pushes the mother down the stairs to her death.Fast forward 20 years: The boys are now men in their twenties residing in New York. One is a successful executive involved in fraudulent business activities. The other is a bohemian type who is an artist.Thus far, the film's idea had potential in developing the Cain and Abel archetype. But at this point, the screenplay ran off the rails because it was never clear if Mark (the executive) was Cain and Rich (the bohemian) was Abel, or vice versa. Both characters were freaks! The unpleasantness of this film was truly appalling with far too much violence. Ed Asner appeared in two scenes as the father. But even Asner could not salvage this stinker of a film.SPOILER FOLLOWS: At the end, there is a plot twist revealed when the birth certificate of Mark/Rich is pulled out. There is also a touch of the paranormal with a little boy following the villain around as his "conscience." Finally, the villain turns himself in at the police precinct. But the cops are too stupid or too slow to interview him, and he walks out of the building. A final scene with more paranormal activity in the home of the psycho caps off this turkey.It was difficult to come up for a title for this review. The film never developed a theme for its biblically inspired subject matter. So, like the writers of the film's screenplay, I just pulled up for random a phrase that sounded biblical: "The Sins of the Father Are Visited Upon the Son."

danisanders2007 I thoroughly enjoyed this movie, I must admit at some points I was confused on what was going on, the last part was AMAZING!! Such a twist!! I think Jonathon Togo's acting was brilliant (as was everybody else's)although some conversations were hard to here and understand if you REALLY pay attention to the rest of it you should be able to catch on. I only watched it because Jonathon was in it (and I love him from CSI: Miami) and in my experience watching films because there's someone in it you like doesn't always mean the film is good but this film showed me the complete opposite. All in all this movie was exciting, gets you on the edge of your seat and intrigues so from minute 1! I wouldn't recommend it to people who prefer easy story lines.

admoyer98 My brother and sister-in-law wanted to watch this movie because they like the actor. It plays like a made for TV movie. No surprise that it didn't make it into the theaters. The story was slow and confusing, and the ending was predictable. We called the ending less than half way through the movie. The previous reviewer who said the actor's speech was slurred and difficult to understand hit the nail on the head. So frustrating to sit through. We watched the whole movie despite our disappointment because we were hoping for a big payoff at the end and we were very let down. There are too many good and even mediocre movies out there to waste your time with this one. The only bright side is that now we can make fun of the movie tomorrow...