The Identical – D+

Starring Blake Rayne, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Seth Green, Joe Pantoliano.
Screenplay by Howard Klausner.
Directed by Dustin Marcellino.

Rated PG for thematic elements and smoking.

I can't begin to tell you how bad this movie is. I was suckered in by the fact that it involves Ashley Judd, Seth Green, and Ray Liotta. The first two must have become involved because of the fact that Liotta financed this thing. Or they were off their meds.

They are all good actors and do well in this. But that is the only redeeming characteristic of this train-wreck of a movie.

The creators pose the question, "What if Elvis's twin brother had not died at birth?" It then creates the least imaginative and most unlikely response possible to that question: Why, he'd have been adopted, grown up to be an Elvis impersonator, and would have become almost as famous as the King himself by touring and singing covers of Elvis's songs! (Honestly. That's the plot.)

This movie is basically a vanity project for the "actor" who plays the main character. This actor is an Elvis impersonator in real life. This movie gives him a chance to live out his fantasy of having Elvis see his act and then receiving his blessing as the world's best Elvis impersonator. (Which he isn't.)