Textual Analysis - Identity Thief

This is a analysis of the movie Identity Thief. If you have not seen it, you might, might not want to see it before reading this, not going to give to much away of the story line, just going to keep it brief.

The film is about a woman taking an unintelligent guys identity, and he wants to fix it. The actors for the film where alright for the roles they played. The characters where not spectacular in any way, just normal humans. Only a hand full of the characters were step up with information about them, mainly just the 2 main characters and 2 or 3 others. Most of the other people that were a good part of the film where just plonked in there with no character step up leaving me to wounder who they are, and what are their main reasons for being there.

The Story line just seemed they draw it out of a hat, and quickly wrote something up without much care on making the characters more interesting or pushing them to the edge, They just gave up to quick to even get a good response from me. As for the arcs in the story, the main one was right in the first 5 minutes but was not good enough to hold me there immersed in the story. As the film is about 2 hours, I believe. the next hour after the first 10 minutes just seemed to drag on and on. I thought I was going to miss my uni class at one stage it took that long. Nothing happened in this time, and was tempted to find something else to do for the next 2 hours before class. The arcs where way to far apart at the start.

The acting was alright but as the story was dragging on, I didn't worry too much about the acting. Some stages of the film, the actors where trying to make you feel something for them, but they acting was just not there in those parts, too far dialed down.

The sets where all realistic, nothing out of place. The concept of this film is alright but as the characters just gave up, and the story leaving out characters story lines, I got side tracked trying to figure out who the characters are and why they are there.

These are my thoughts on the film, others might see it different to me, I got no idea.


-Joshua - Out.