Friday, August 23, 2013

Identity Thief 2013

Identity Thief     Sandy Patterson has a very nice wife and two beautiful girls.  He works hard and earns $50,000 a year.  A group of employees get together and decide to strike out on their own forming a new company.  He can make $250,000 a year at this new job.  He receives a very sweet phone call informing him that his credit card has been compromised and he gives out his identifying information.  This sets Diana into action, she makes a credit card and driver’s license with Sandy’s information.  The next phone calls he gets are about overdrafts on his credit card.  The police arrest him for not appearing at his court date for public drunkenness and assault.  Sandy files to Florida from Colorado to meet up with the woman who is the new Sandy.
      I found this film extremely stressful to watch and totally predictable.  I had to stop watching, identity theft hits too close to home and is a fear of many people.  You do need to take steps to straighten out identity theft yourself.  The police have bigger fish to fry.  Bateman is wasted as the constant straight man, McCarthy is someone you don’t want to meet and this film is not funny.  1 ½* (I really didn’t like this movie)

111 min, Comedy directed by Seth Gordon with Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I. Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut, Robert Patrick.

Note:  Blockbuster 3*, imdb 5.6 out of 10, 20% critic 55% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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