Skolimowski stars himself in "Identification Marks: None" as a 24-year-old draft dodger who one day accepts the call and enters military service….

Unfortunately, although everything that happens to him means to be of great significance, none becomes suggestive enough to arouse interest.

Not that the film doesn't try. Skolimowski strains for effects, for improbable shooting angles, for elaborate and fortuitous silhouettes and reflections—to such a degree that he would seem determined to find a visual formula for everything and everybody in his movie.

His use of subjective camera, sometimes in vast bravura passages requiring extended movement, works to depress both cinematic and dramatic excitement. In such passages we know that it is always a machine and never the eye that sees and that elicits the imitation of response.