Best movie of this year hands down!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

5 mins ago i didn't have a imbd account. I only made one to say this is just ya average Ben stiller film, nothing more, nothing less. -jess.

This comedy caper movie, probably with the emphasis on the latter, strayed reasonably well but grew more ridiculous as it went on and as these films tend to do, drops the laughs altogether in pursuit of a memorable feel-good finish. So far, so clichéd, but in my opinion the comedy in the first half, aided by a thinly-veiled attack on the greed of corporate America, personified in the pompous, superior and patronising super-rich Bernie Madoff- type banker, played by Alan Alda, exceeded the ridiculous heist scene itself which involves trying to get a motorcar down from the top of a New York skyscraper during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.Ben Stiller is the hotel manager who runs a tight ship and knows every inch of his multi- storey territory, catering to every whim of his multi-millionaire clientèle, including super- smug Alda, even playing on-line chess with him and fatally trusting the arch-swindler with the pension funds of all the hotel employees. When Alda's Arthur Shaw character is outed as a crook, he unsurprisingly has a solicitor team in place bound to get him off, forcing Stiller and his band of merry service-men, including Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick and eventually street-savvy Eddie Murphy in a cunning plan to get their money back in one go.Those early comedy scenes probably climax with the shoplifting trials Murphy sets his novice burglars but after that things get very silly as the team go after Alda's car and get involved in ludicrous stunts which see a classic car suspended high above New York's streets and unlikely feats by Stiller and his crew which Tom Cruise and his MI team would struggle to pull off. Stiller for me seems somewhat typecast now in these kind of frazzled good-guy parts but of course this is as nothing compared to the irritating jive-ass part played for the umpteenth time by Eddie Murphy. Better were Alda as the big-time crook and Tea Leoni as the FBI agent with torn loyalties.It's a shame the writers got carried away with the idea of the high-tower heist itself as it really detracts from the comedic potential of the rest of the movie. That was one plot idea they really should have hung out to dry.

Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Judd Hirsch, Tea Leoni, Stephen Henderson, and Gabourey Sidibe star in "Tower Heist" from 2011.It's a caper movie, and it's a light and fun one. Stiller as Josh Kovaks manages an exclusive apartment building, The Tower (like Trump Towers). He finds out that he and the other employees have fallen victim to a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a tenant, Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda). After Josh nearly destroys the incredibly expensive car that Shaw has on display in his apartment, he and everyone else are fired.Determined to take Shaw down, they learn that he kept about $20 million mad money and decide it's in his safe. They decide to rob him. Kovaks recruits a thief he knows, Slide (Eddie Murphy) to help. Meanwhile, the FBI, in the person of Tea Leoni, has arrested Shaw but it looks as if they might have to drop the charges.Caper movies seem to be a dime a dozen these days, but there's always room for one more good one. The cast here is super talented and while it's not the most original script, there are some fun things in it. Matthew Broderick, Gabourey Sidibe, and Eddie Murphy are especially funny. It's a shame Eddie Murphy's career took a nose dive; he's no less talented than he used to be.With the Macy's Day Parade, particularly Snoopy in the background, Matthew Broderick hanging by a rope, Gabourey Sidibe running her trolley into a guard and knocking him out, you'll have a good time. Just don't expect Citizen Kane.

I am 20 minutes into this movie and it has passed the 20 min test. I usually loathe Ben Stiller in anything but he is watchable in this.I think he is much better as a quasi serious actor than a comic one - there is something unlikable about him in out and out comic parts. I expect the movie to be OK because Alan Alda is in it and he rarely does rubbish movies. Eddie Murphy, too , is one of my least favourite movie stars - I still have not forgiven Coming to America! Tower Heist promises to be a lightweight but enjoyable caper movie. One of my favourite genres, let's hope that it lives up to its promise. I recorded it just to see how awful it was and up to now it has proved to be anything but. It is always a pleasant surprise when something you expect to hate turns out to be entertaining.