Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

huggibear I thought this movie was just silly. I've seen Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids and this doesn't even come close. It was barely watchable. I also think Steve Carell could have been a better 'Male Sandy Patterson' than Jason Bateman, but I like Steve Carell's movies. He would have fit in well as Melissa McCarthy's counterpart in this movie. Anyway, obviously this is just my take. This could have been much better. Melissa McCarthy is a funny actress and she's better than these roles she has chosen lately. I haven't seen them all though. Either way, it had nice bittersweet ending and that's what made this movie worthy my time.

adrian-43767 I wonder how any film company can possibly finance a script so poor? Bateman tries valiantly but he cannot rise above a pathetic script that completely emasculates and stupefies his character. McCarthy seems to play herself, supposedly someone with a larger than life sense of humor, but her actions verge on the psychotic and that is a mixture as volatile as it is unbelievable - and even repellent.The only "good" thing about this movie is that it repeats a much trotted out warning about not giving away your personal info, what with identity thieves all over the place waiting to scam you.IDENTITY THIEF is an insult to any law-abiding citizen's intelligence. I give this rubbish one star because the system does not allow me to ZERO it!

feyipuk There are many parts of this film that could be seen as social commentary; the ease of identity theft, the lack of care and downright ridiculous behaviour of the police, the attitudes to different levels of crime, and consequences for actions. Yet if you treat it as a goofy romp, then there are some laughs along the way. It just gets let down by Diana (Melissa McCarthy) trying to be both an evil genius, while stopping short of being evil, resulting in her coming across as irritating. And Diana isn't even her real name.Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) is a penny watching accountant who pays plenty of attention at work, but has his life unravel when he gives away too much information to a con artist, meaning he has to take the law into his own hands to get his life back. As with other McCarthy films, she's the street smart one who points out what the straight, more educated, characters faults are, and along the way, they get to know each other better. In the end he uses some of her tricks to get through and she learns from him to redeem herself. Along the way they're chased by other criminals who she's sold fake IDs too, and a Skiptracer, played by Robert Patrick (in an almost parody of his T1000 role from Terminator 2).The plot and script are contrived - so instead of Sandy simply saying "she's bad, and here's why", he skates around the issue and ends up looking like the bad guy - yet it could have actually benefited from borrowing more from other movies, such as, you know early on that Sandy has a horrible boss (Jon Favreau), who is going to get some comeuppance, it's just a question of how and what happens, and frankly, could have been worse. It's crude, without being overly evil.

ggmcheartagram I expected this to be pretty bad as i hadn't seen a lot of good reviews for it, I don't really understand why... Fair enough it wasn't hilarious and the best comedy moments were probably in the trailer but this film is so much more than a comedy. It had so much heart and at the end i even got teary. The friendship that i saw developing was very heartwarming and even though Diana/Melissa started off as a terrible person responsible for potentially destroying Sandy's life, i felt so sorry for her when i found out she was filling her life with meaningless possessions just to fill her empty life. I enjoyed everyone's performances in this movie especially Melissa's. So don't just listen to the negative reviews that are around and give this film a fair chance, i certainly don't regret it.