When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
[A] sloppily made exercise of rip-offs and redemption.
– Linda Barnard,
Toronto Star,
8 Feb 2013
fresh:
Even with all its shortcomings and sentimental fudges, there is something about McCarthy's refusal to lie down and play the victim that gives it a comic edge. A blunt edge, to be sure, but an edge all the same.
– Tom Charity,
CNN.com,
8 Feb 2013
rotten:
Identity Thief is funny enough, but it needed to be darker, raunchier, and crazier to live up to the promise of its casting.
– Bilge Ebiri,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
11 Feb 2013
rotten:
It saddles Bateman with a thankless uptight straight-man role while heaping serial slapstick ignominies on his co-star, who gamely bounds through everything the script throws at her.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
19 Mar 2013
rotten:
You don't care enough about these people to want to see them come out on top.