Tower Heist is a fun, frenetic, intriguing film, for about 45 minutes. Then it all pretty much goes to shit.
In that first 45 minutes we meet Stiller, who runs NY's highest high class building, full of wealthy fuckers whom he and his staff pamper. Casey Afleck plays his brother in law and concierge, and there's a Spaniard, funny dude, don't know his name, who just started working as an elevator operator. Alan Alda plays the richest of the rich whom it turns out has been embezzling or defrauding or whatever it's called. Anyway, at some point a while back Stiller gave Alda everyones pensions to invest and now it's all gone.
So our 3 main characters join up with solemn and down on his luck Matthew Broderick, who used to live in the building, but has gone bankrupt, to try and steal $20 Million in cash they believe to be hidden in Aldas penthouse.
While all these men have knowledge of the building and certain skills, none of them are thieves, which is where Eddie Murphy comes in as Stillers thug neighbor.
It's all pretty good up to here, but once the heist starts it's pretty much just wasted screen time for everyone. There's a rather absurd plot twist involving a car and so on and the last half of the movie kind of drags.
Very disappointing finish to what was a fun start.
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