Rent Tower Heist (2011)
3.0 of 5 from 128 ratings
1h 40min
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- Synopsis:
- The story about ordinary working guys who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler (Alan Alda) who stole all their money. After the workers at a luxury Central Park condominium discover the penthouse billionaire has stolen their retirement fund, they plot the ultimate revenge: an insane heist to reclaim what he took from them.
- Actors:
- Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe, Nina Arianda, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Juan Carlos Hernández, Harry O'Reilly, Peter Van Wagner, Zeljko Ivanek, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Annika Pergament, Clem Cheung, Robert Downey Sr.
- Directors:
- Brett Ratner
- Producers:
- Brian Grazer, Eddie Murphy, Kim Roth
- Writers:
- Ted Griffin, Jeff Nathanson
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- Collections:
- Films & TV by topic, Thanksgiving and Film!
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 19/03/2012
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Italian DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Alternate Endings
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternate Scenes
- Gag Reel
- "Plotting Tower Heist": Discover how Director Brett Ratner and the cast bring this exciting caper movie to a whole new level
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Reviews (1) of Tower Heist
Er ... - Tower Heist review by CP Customer
It's about a heist. In a tower. There's a baddie, and some goodies. The baddie gets his comeuppance, the goodies get their reward at the end. That's about all the depth you're going to get in this film - but if you like Ben Stiller then you might like it. If you like good films on the other hand, then you might not.
It's mildly entertaining, but essentially it's drivel. Then again, Michael Mcintyre has made an entire career out of that.
2 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
Tower Heist review by Alyse Garner - Cinema Paradiso
For the X-Men fans who hated X-Men: the Last Stand (2006) or Jackie Chan fans who loved Rush Hour (1998) comes Tower Heist, a high concept action movie about a group of employees who realize they have been stiffed by their boss and want revenge.
Ben Stiller plays Josh Kovacs a building manager for an elite business apartment building called “The Tower” (the Trump Tower of the Hollywood-pretend-world) who has been loyal and dedicated service provider for years, making sacrifices of his own for the sake of his building; particularly a financial expert and billionaire Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda). Things begin to unravel for Kovacs however when, shortly after enlisting Shaw to invest the entire company’s pension, Shaw is busted by the FBI for investment fraud.
Things get even worse for Kovacs as the FBI inform him that it is unlikely that his pension money will ever be recovered. Heartbroken and furious Kovacs and his fellow Tower employee’s decide to raid Shaw’s apartment and steal the millions of dollars he has hidden in there as compensation for the loss of their pensions. To do this they enlist the help of an ex-con, played by Eddie Murphy.
Although it takes a surprisingly long time before Murphy is properly introduced to the plot the film concentrates largely on him and his patented brand of humor. Unfortunately this doesn’t really offer anything new; even those who normally find the same old recycled jokes hilarious will find Tower Heist a fairly run-of-the-mill comedy, which does not deviate from your expectations for a single second.