Mjeteconer Just perfect...

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

boobookitty17 Stumbled on this show and was curious from the start. Although it took a few episodes to give the main characters some depth I did like the fact that it doesn't play off the Police = good, and criminal=bad routine. The balance that all characters have good and bad in them appeals to me, without giving to much away lets just say some lines get murky and even crossed but its where it ends up that counts according to this series. It would have been nice to see what would of happened in the second season as there were many directions the show could have gone.The acting is pretty good, just the right amount of office politics and antics to make it interesting but not enough to make it sickly soapy. One thing some of the American cop shows should learn.Well worth a watch and with only six episodes it moves quickly and is entertaining.

MikeMagi There's a great idea for a TV series here -- a police squad that specializes in identity theft. But based on the two episodes I watched, it's been mishandled. Both centered on psychos who swiped identities and committed murder for reasons that were at best murky (and at worst ludicrous.) And in both episodes, extended chase scenes filled the gaps in threadbare scenarios. The cast isn't bad. And perhaps subsequent stories will suggest...surprise!!!...that not all identity thieves are homicidal wackos. They might even deal with the frightening and fascinating way in which lives can be stolen -- along with cash, credit ratings and reputations. But from what I've seen so far, I'm not hopeful.

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.

Corky1984 ITV long ago descended into a dumbed-down channel which flogged endless low-quality popstar wannabe/reality TV shows, but now and then it still comes up with a decent drama. Identity is a good series, with a strong cast and some interesting story lines. Focusing on the endeavours of the Identity Unit, which looks into identity fraud/theft etc, the show injects a bit of freshness into the well-trodden police procedural genre. The beautiful Keeley Hawes (of Ashes to Ashes fame) heads the Identity Unit, but Aiden Gillen's John Bloom is the series' key player. As a former undercover officer, he still has a foot in both worlds and is still romantically involved with a crime baron's sister. The show follows a continuous arc as he is drawn ever deeper back into his old 'undercover' world, whilst trying to reintegrate into the Identity squad. Some inventive plots keep you interested, whilst the rivalries amongst the Identity team occasionally spill over. Series 1 ended with Bloom's two worlds colliding and more or less resolved that story strand, but I'd like to see a second series made because the characters still have plenty of mileage left in them.