Identity Thief

2013 • 111 minutes

About this movie

Jason Bateman (Horrible Bosses) and Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) lead an all-star cast in this hilarious blockbuster hit. Unlimited funds have allowed Diana (Melissa McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Orlando. There's only one glitch: she's financing her shopping sprees with an ID stolen from Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman), an accounts rep who lives halfway across the U.S. With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Patterson is forced to extreme measures to clear his name. From the director of Horrible Bosses and the producer of Ted, critics are calling Identity Thief 'smart, funny and surprisingly touching' -- Rafer Guzman, Newsday.

Ratings and reviews

I like Bateman but this movie is extremely and unnecessarily vulgar, has no heart, is hardly funny despite the trailers, and the characters act illogically (Big spoiler alert: the guy goes cross country in a half-baked effort to clear his name but it's persuaded top steal thousands from his ex-boss and actually gets caught yet the law apparently never catches up with him).

I have nothing against either of the actors (I actually like Jason Bateman a lot), but this movie did nothing for me. I didn't hate it, but it consisted mainly of rather unfunny, childish humor. Childish humor can be funny (Harold and Kumar, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison), but I felt that the vast majority of the jokes fell flat. I LOVED Planes, Trains and Automobiles... Please, please watch that movie instead. I feel this movie just falls into a long line of bland movies about opposites on a long road trip.

I was so hoping that this movie was funny. Yes, there are some funny parts to it, but I was expecting so much more from Melissa McCarthy. The funny bits to me only took up about 15 minutes of the movie, so the other hour and 45 minutes were setup and totally underused. I was almost embarrassed for Melissa McCarthy during the movie. Jason Bateman was Jason Bateman. His character hardly ever wavers between movies. He wasn't bad but his character really wasn't developed very well. Robert Patrick belittled himself playing the skip tracer. He's a much better actor than Seth Gordon allowed him to be. I'm sure he was trying to be comedic (how else do you explain it) but he just came off as pathetic. I got very bored by the long stretches between emotions in this movie. The ending was predictable and a relief to finally get to. In fact, there wasn't much that jumped out at me during the movie. If you're a Melissa McCarthy fan, then you should see this, but if you're not.... don't waste your money.