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Tower Heist


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Hollywood Reporter
This lively, funny caper hinged on victims getting their own back from a Madoff type should play well to a wide audience.
Chicago Tribune
Cast that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Matthew Broderick cashes in via '70s-style crime caper
Chicago Sun-Times
If it had provided me with nothing else, "Tower Heist" would have afforded me the sight of a solid gold automobile being low...
Metromix
Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy want Alan Alda's money, but they'll settle for yours
New York Magazine
A shameless but exuberantly well-done caper comedy...
The New Yorker
Toss everything you can find, starting with roughly diced plots, into the blender, press Pulse, and pray: such appears to be...
Entertainment Weekly
Tower Heist is the cinematic version of a Trump property: overblinged, eye-catching, and essentially tacky.
Chicago Sun-Times
This isn't a great heist movie for a lot of reasons, beginning with the stupidity of its heist plan and the impossibility of...
Chicago Tribune
For what it is - recessionary wish-fulfillment escapism, with a lot of highly skilled familiar faces in its amply qualified ...
New York Daily News
Boasts an unusually strong cast of actors, who boost the slick screenplay into a satisfying popcorn picture.
Salon Arts
Tower Heist is funny in the way of so many Hollywood comedies, meaning that individual scenes are often crisply written and ...
The Boston Globe
Tower Heist is smoothly made and smart enough. It's not going for too much, but I laughed a lot, despite knowing better, whi...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Devoting more time to the setup than to the follow-through, Tower Heist doesn't really build suspense so much as it builds i...
The New York Times
Mr. Ratner goes for the safe bet and the easy score, which means that, for all his shows of solidarity with the working stif...
Rolling Stone
You won't remember Tower Heist an hour later, but the top cast makes the jokes (even the lousy ones) go down easy.
Wall Street Journal
The type of film with which Mr. Ratner has claimed to be infatuated is itself like a caper -- it requires precise execution....
Los Angeles Times
Tower Heist might not be a classic (it's not), but at least for a little while it will make you laugh instead of cry about t...
Slate
The most that can be said for Tower Heist, the new action comedy from Brett Ratner, is that it's a middlingly well-done evoc...
New York Post
It's a cunningly engineered movie that's as much fun as Ocean's 11, a tale of a Renoir of ripoff who matches skills with fre...
Washington Post
Tower Heist is an improbably satisfying action comedy, the kind of wax-on-wax-off, slickly machined Hollywood widget that me...
USA Today
Tower Heist feigns being an Ocean's 11 for schmucks, but plays like a retread of 48 Hours.
Richard Roeper
Cheerfully crappy schlock.
E! Online
Director Brett Ratner may not see the irony in throwing what is pretty clearly a massive budget into an anti-greed tale, but...
Film School Rejects
The film is equal parts too slick and too dumb, with an illogical scheme supposedly driving the plot and action. There’s mor...
ReelViews
Whether suffused with tension or laced with humor, the heist movie has enjoyed enduring appeal since the heyday of film noir.
Total Film
An entertaining but uptight comedy that strains to match the throwaway fizz of the Oceans movies. Cool cast, but it increasi...

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Partial Film Information

Director: Brett Ratner
Writer: Ted Griffin
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck

Release: November 4, 2011
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