ID:A (Christian E. Christiansen, 2011)

A woman wakes up in the French countryside with memory loss, a bag full of money and several murders having occurred nearby. Discovering she's from Denmark, she returns there pursued by sinister men and discovers on getting there that she's also married to an opera singer. The film manages well until this point on atmosphere, if not entirely on originality. This is unfortunately undermined by a modish and suspense-deflating time structure, where we rewind at a critical juncture right back to before the start and then have to wait a good while for the story to trudge its way to the present again. On the way, the action element racks up too, to no particular avail, with a horror-film unreality to how easily the murderous pursuers keep on finding her over and over again, and then the chase takes over completely, with gruesome killings piling up. It can be noted that a panned American horror film is indeed what the director did right after this.

4/10