![]() Electronic identity theft offers a host of new possibilities, and to have almost none of them explored by writer Craig Mazin and director Seth Gordon in this uninspired trudge of a road movie is the biggest waste of all. Think Monty Python's Life of Brian, Chaplin's The Great Dictator, the Coen Brothers' The Big Lebowski - and onstage, everything from Charley's Aunt to The Comedy of Errors. Watch Identity Thief 2013 full movie 1080p, watch Identity Thief online free. The concept: Stealing someone's identity, while no doubt ghastly for victims, can be a comic goldmine in the right storytelling hands. Jon Favreau - amusing as a boss from hell for maybe 90 seconds at the top of the picture, and then gone for the duration. Harold and Kumar's John Cho - inexplicably cast as a straight-arrow banking exec who doesn't so much as blink when his offices are searched for drugs. Raven-haired beauty Genesis Rodriguez - his thug-ette partner, shot and stuffed in a trunk (possibly for not protesting when makeup artists made her look tough and plain). one of those thugs, shot and stuffed in a trunk (possibly for trying to imbue his lines with a bit of personality). He also faces a burglary charge, police said. McCarthy is manic, vulgar and largely wasted in Seth Gordon's lame comedy. The alleged thief, 59-year-old Charles Rhodie, was also charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The star: Melissa McCarthy, who plays the title character - and who absolutely deserves a star vehicle after stealing Bridesmaids from her better-known co-stars - gets saddled with a script that subverts her gift for verbal improv by requiring her to throat-punch all comers just as conversations get started, and undercuts her comic timing with overstaged sequences in which she gets tackled, slammed, pinned, violated, abused, busted in the chops with a guitar, beaned with household appliances and rammed full-throttle by a car. No tricks, no subterfuge, no laughs - he just thinks she's stupid. He brings handcuffs in case she's uncooperative. ![]() The follow-up: Sandy flies to Florida to persuade the identity thief to accompany him home, where he'll hand her over to police. No tricks, no subterfuge, no laughs - he's just stupid. 'Identity Thief' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on DIRECTV, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, AMC on Demand, Vudu, Spectrum On. You are all watching the movie Identity Thief online free live broadcast at 123MOVIES. The setup: Sandy Patterson, who works in a Denver financial firm (and is not supposed to be mentally challenged), blithely hands over his Social Security number to a stranger on the phone who says his accounts have been compromised, at which point his accounts get compromised. The new road-trip comedy Identity Thief - about a guy who confronts a woman who's wrecking his credit rating - is such a catalog of missed opportunities, it probably makes sense just to list them. ![]()
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