Tower Heist

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Plot: Josh (Ben Stiller) manages a NYC super luxury apartment, where a Bernie Madoff type financial villain named Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) lives. Arthur had lost the apartment worker's pension fund huge financial scandal, and the apartment workers are mad and want to get even. The crew plots to get their money back. Josh recruits his childhood friend Slide (Eddie Murphy) to help.

Review: Tower Heist is fast and always entertaining; it is not great cinema. It has a few good scenes with sit-com set-ups and sit-com laughs.

I liked the analogy between the real life Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, and Arthur's scandal. When that wears thin, there is Eddie Murphy's larger-than-life character stealing every scene that he is in. Gabourey Sidibe spices things up with a tough girl Jamaican character.

The music is good. The photography is nothing special.

Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe, Mathew Broderick.

Directed by: Brett Ratner

Rating:   2.5 stars:  Entertaining enough to recommend. It is a good evening at the movies. A good popcorn movie.

More: Tower Heist and last week's In Time both have Occupy Wall Street themes. Is this a trend?

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