Identity Thief Reviews

Don't let Identity Thief steal two hours of your life.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Identity Thief" gives Melissa McCarthy her full- fledged feature-film starring role. But the result is dispiriting, to say the least.

Full Review | Original Score: **

An obnoxious and repulsive comedy that consistently wastes the talents of its two charismatic stars.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/5

While "Identity Thief" isn't one of the best road-trip movies to come our way, Melissa McCarthy makes the journey worth it.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10

A self-indulgent comedy catchall, one that's saddled with an irony for a title; that is, for a film about the value of identity, Identity Thief doesn't have a clue about what it wants to be.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Identity Thief is torture porn. We've been using that term wrong for years.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/10

The two have palpable chemsitry, but the film's hyper pace keeps pushing them forward when it might have nicer to just let these two make us laugh

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

While the two leads are likable enough, they deserve better, especially McCarthy. Her range is criminally misused here -- it's almost as if someone stole her comedic identity and committed a bad film in her name.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10

Identity Thief molests the idea of the 'odd couple' beyond recognition.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5

The film's few chuckles can be chalked up to the sheer comedic charisma of McCarthy and Bateman.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

...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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

an unwieldy and unfunny farce that's robbed of comic potential through its reliance on shrill mayhem over wit.

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McCarthy gets bashed about like a Stooge, and she bashes back with riotous abandon. Sadly, the rest of the movie is a shambles.

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Much as I like Melissa McCarthy, this aimless road movie misfires. And when is Hollywood going to let a plus-sized woman be not only sexual but erotic?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film's best moments are when McCarthy is left to her own improvisational devices with the camera still running, and that doesn't happen often enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film's darker elements are brushed aside and we're left with a zany, feel-good finale.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

The contrived setup doesn't make much sense, and the movie throws in far too many extraneous antagonists and dead-end plot detours, none of which are entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

They aimed for "Midnight Run," settled for attempting "Due Date," and wound up with "Guilt Trip."

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4