¨I just want
to be upfront and say I visually enjoy you.¨
It will be
very difficult to find another movie worse than Identity Thief at the theater
this year. I have no idea how this film raised more than 100 million dollars at
the box office considering how terrible it was. I remember a time in which road
trip comedies used to be great, but after seeing this and Due Date I have to admit
I´m disappointed at Hollywood´s latest efforts. Despite having very funny
actors the film has no laughs whatsoever. It was a huge disappointment for me
because I like Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. They are extremely talented
and funny actors, but this movie did the impossible and made them look so dull
and boring. The screenplay for this film has to be one of the worst and in my
opinion is an early contender for this year´s Razzies. I´m not hating on
director Seth Gordon because I was one of the few people who actually enjoyed Horrible
Bosses and am looking forward to the sequel. I do think that the screenplay by
Craig Mazin and Jerry Eetin is probably the weakest thing about Identity Thief.
This is as lazy as you can get with a movie. I think that having Jason Bateman
and Melissa McCarthy say whatever they felt like in front of the camera would
have been much funnier than having them play these stereotypical roles with
very poor dialogues.
Sandy Patterson
(Jason Bateman) has a lovely wife named Trish (Amanda Peet) and two beautiful daughters.
He lives in Denver where he works as an account rep for an important company,
but soon discovers that his identity has been stolen after seeing his credit
cards being all maxed out. He discovers that a woman in Florida has been using
his identity and has been spending all his money so he decides to travel to
Florida and bring her back to Colorado for justice. Once he arrives at Florida
he finds out that the woman´s name is Diana (Melissa McCarthy), or so she says,
and that she is wanted by a lot of people. He somehow convinces her to come
along with him to Colorado and fix things with his bosses so he doesn’t get in
trouble at work. While they embark on their road trip they are followed by
several other criminals and hit men who are looking for Diana as well. Among them
there is Julian (T.I.) and Marisol (Genesis Rodriguez) who are working together
for an important drug dealer, and then there is Skiptracer (Robert Patrick) who
has also been asked to bring Diana back to Florida. What seemed like an easy
road trip back to Denver will end up in a very dangerous pursuit with all sorts
of things going wrong for Sandy and Diana.
Identity
Thief is a lazy excuse for a comedy and one of the few films in that genre that
never managed to make me laugh. I was really surprised the film was this bad
considering how much I liked the actors here. I can’t think of one funny or
stand out scene. This was a very disappointing film and I can´t say anything
else about it.
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I'm still not entirely sure if I just wasn't in the mood for a comedy or if the movie just fell flat. To be honest, I’m going with the latter. Good review Esteban.
ResponderEliminarI could see how it simply just felt flat because that is how I felt. Too bad because I like these actors, but the material was terrible.
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