Movie : Tower Heist
Release Date : November 4, 2011
Studio : Universal Pictures
Director : Brett Ratner
Screenwriter : Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Russell Gewirtz, Rawson Marshall Thurber, Ted Griffin, Leslie Dixon, Noah Baumbach, Jeff Nathanson
Starring : Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni
Genre : Action, Comedy
MPAA Rating : PG-13 (for language and sexual content)
Official Website : TowerHeist.net
IMDB Rating : 6.7
Storyline : A hardworking building manager, small-time thief, incompetent concierge, confused bellhop, timid ex-investor and self-assured maid take revenge on a Madoff-like criminal in “Tower Heist.”
Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) is the building manager of a luxury apartment complex, called the Tower. He is at first blindly loyal to the apartment’s wealthiest tenant, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), and refuses to believe police accusations that the billionaire has stolen $2 billion.
Kovacs had given his and the other Tower employees’ pensions to Shaw for investment, and now these are all lost. After hearing this news, the doorman at the Tower attempts to commit suicide. Kovacs soon learns that the doorman lost his life savings, along with his pension to Shaw’s Ponzi scheme.
The billionaire’s indifference toward the doorman’s situation forces Kovacs to realize that the accusations are true. Furious, he decides to steal the employees money back and creates a group of misfit crooks to help him.
“Tower Heist” delivers exactly what the trailer promises: a fun, fast-paced heist movie featuring an oddball cast. The cast, which includes Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck (“Gone Baby Gone”), Matthew Broderick (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ”), Michael Pena (“Shooter”) and Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”) is what makes the movie enjoyable.
Murphy’s ultra-fast comedic dialogues coupled with Broderick’s self-deprecating humor, Sidibe’s sassy innuendos and Pena’s deadpan deliveries provide many of the laughs in the movie. The interaction between Sidibe and Murphy when she is teaching him how to open a safe is arguably the funniest scene in the movie.
Director Brett Ratner, unfortunately, does not take advantage of his cast’s capabilities. The generic plot does not help him or the actors. There are gaping holes in the story, which seems to be hastily concocted.
Far-fetched scenes, such as Kovacs fooling the FBI into thinking Shaw’s court date has changed and Kovacs dangling a car outside a building in New York City, are used as plot devices to move the movie along.
While “Tower Heist” is hardly memorable, it is still humorous and entertaining.
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