Identity Thief is all over the map when it comes to the kind of film it wants to be,
sometimes playing like a wacky farce,
sometimes as a black humor raunch-fest,
sometimes as a silly thriller with laughs, and
sometimes trying to draw out even some touching moments in a mismatched buddy road - trip comedy, a la Trains Planes and Automobiles.
As «
Identity Thief» showed, proving you're innocent, and separating out your legitimate borrowing from the criminal's illegitimate can often be incredibly —
sometimes, impossibly — difficult.