Identity Thief Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Sure, the two leads deserve better material, but there are enough laughs here to make up for a lot of creative mistakes-casting isn't one of them.
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| Original Score: B
Rip It Up
...a yawner plot set-up that leads to lots of wannabe off-colour gags, a small army of pursuing villains and an expected final act in which Jason's icky-sticky niceness might perhaps stop McCarthy from being a shrieking psychopath.
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| Original Score: 2/5
3AW
Formulaic multiplex mulch, way over-long, often feels strained...That said, Identity Thief is the latest example of the disconnect that often exists between critical opinion and popular appeal. Slammed by critics the low-budget film has been a huge hit.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
2UE That Movie Show
Identity Thief molests the idea of the 'odd couple' beyond recognition.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
Concrete Playground
Don't let Identity Thief steal two hours of your life.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
The film's darker elements are brushed aside and we're left with a zany, feel-good finale.
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| Original Score: B-
FILMINK (Australia)
an unwieldy and unfunny farce that's robbed of comic potential through its reliance on shrill mayhem over wit.
The Standard
When the plot feels like you've seen it three times before, and done better on each of those occasions, the movie better have something else going for it. Identity Thief doesn't.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Quickflix
The first thing I did after returning from the screening was take two painkillers for my throbbing headache. A man can only withstand so much shrill shrieking and faux-screwball antics.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Urban Cinefile
There's probably a funny film buried somewhere deep within this concept of a morally corrupt protagonist, whose compulsion to steal identities finds her facing off with the man whose identity she has stolen, but this isn't it
Birmingham Post
Identity Thief features the kind of 'humour' which says you don't just hit a person once, you should do it repeatedly to make it funnier.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Contactmusic.com
There's real potential in this premise for a ripping screwball comedy anchored by two likeable actors, but the filmmakers simply don't trust the material, stirring in constant elements of action mayhem that don't work at all.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Daily Telegraph
Feeble as comedy, the movie is needlessly violent, too, as if half the crew misguidedly thought they were making a foul-mouthed action thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Express
The real crime here is the waste of comic talent.
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| Original Score: 2/5
This is London
All pretty feeble stuff.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Movie Talk
Without the irrepressible force of comic mayhem that is Melissa McCarthy, road-movie comedy Identity Thief would end up in the ditch. Luckily, the Bridesmaids co-star barrels her way through the plot's stickiest patches.
Daily Mail [UK]
Identity Thief starts off moronic and then goes downhill.
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| Original Score: 0/5
Guardian [UK]
It is reliant on McCarthy's comedy chops and her ability to deliver improv-type character material, but almost every single one of her scenes looks like an outtake.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Flick Filosopher
Bateman and McCarthy are so fabulous in the overall, apart from this crap, and they, as actors and human beings, do not warrant the treatment they get here.
