TOWER HEIST SCORE - 4.5/10 GENRE - COMEDY/CRIME PREMISE - Josh Kovacs (B. Stiller) is the manager of an expensive high rise apartment building. Unbeknownst to his employees, Kovacs had the employee pension fund handled by one of the wealthy wall street residents named Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda). When Shaw gets arrested for financial fraud and declares bankruptcy, Kovacs confronts him and gets fired over it. Later he teams up with a couple of employees and a recent evictee to try and rob Shaw of the money they think he's hiding in his apartment. Having no experience in crime Kovacs recruits local hood and life long neighbor, Slide (E. Murphy) into the crew. CRITIQUE - Best I can say about this movie is it was decent. The dialogue and most of the acting was okay, and the story wasn't bad. The problem was that for a comedy this movie just wasn't funny. Murphy didn't help, as he was flat out terrible. It wasn't his comedy, but the fact that he seemed to be really over acting with his character. The loud tone of the "shoot your face off your face" line from the trailer is pretty much how he delivered all his lines. Sometimes I wonder if he can't stop being Donkey from Shrek. Another bad thing about this movie is you were hoping the crime element would be clever in an Oceans 13 kind of way. It wasn't. It was really basic and ordinary, kind of like this film. Recommendation - If you're like me and take your time seriously then I suggest skipping this one altogether. Trust me you really aren't missing anything.
I thought it looked somewhat promising from the trailer but pretty much all of the reviews i'd read echoed those here. I'll be skipping it.
movie is enjoyable but defenitely not a comedy....if you watch it not expecting a comedy then you'll think its ok
Murphy sucked balls. He was way over the top, constantly yelling his lines and over acting. Jamie Foxx did a much better job in Horrible Bosses than Murphy did in this film. I don't see how you enjoyed that performance. SPOILER ALERT: On top of that he double crosses his crew and kills the flow of the story.
I agree Jamie Foxx was better in horrible bosses but that movie was light years ahead funnier than this crap. It just might be the case of tower heist being so bad and unfunny that Murphy seemed funnier than he actually was. What was Casey Affleck doing in this movie anyway, he's much better than that..
Well although he sucked ass in this film, I'm not actually going to follow up and criticize the guy for aging.
Predicatble heist-movie which didn't really know whether to be a comedy or not. Stiller, when he's off, is incredibly dull and annoying.
