When a group of hard-working guys find out they've fallen victim to their wealthy employer's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
Josh Kovaks is the manager of a high-rise condominium in New York. He is close to all the tenants, especially financier Arthur Shaw. One day Shaw is arrested by the FBI for fraud. Josh thinks it's a misunderstanding that can be resolved, but later he learns that the employees' pension fund - which he asked Shaw to handle - is gone. When one of the employees tries to kill himself, Josh's views of Shaw change. He goes to see him and loses his temper, and his job. The FBI agent in charge tells him that Shaw might walk, and recovering the pension fund is unlikely. She tells him that it's been rumored that Shaw has $20 million lying around if he needs it in a hurry. Josh thinks he knows where it is, so with two other fired employees and an evicted tenant, they set out to get into Shaw's penthouse to get the money. But they realize they need the assistance of someone who knows how to steal, so Josh asks an old acquaintance named Slide who he knows is a thief to help them.
I attended a preview screening of this London.<br/><br/>Its not a riotous comedy but it is a charming funny Sunday matinée sort of film with very likable stars.<br/><br/>Eddie Murphy is looking more energetic and revitalised close to what he used to be in the 80s which is great to see. He isn&#39;t at his funniest but he was still entertaining, playing a hoodlum thief. You wouldn&#39;t think he is 50 years old. <br/><br/>Ben Stiller…well he was never the funniest guy in the world so recently, he seems to like to play it straight and likable with the odd subtle comical reactions which he does well. And I like it. He plays the mastermind of the heist and is confident he can pull off a mission impossible heist with his rather incompetent friends. But we as an audience are not so confident in him, particularly as he cant win a chess game with his boss. This gives the mission more excitement as they are prone to tripping over their own plans.<br/><br/>But there are points where some comical dialogue falls flat and thats where I would drop my rating slightly. It tries too hard sometimes. There was some promising chemistry between Murphy and Stiller but that fizzled out quickly. However there is a nice rapport between Tea Leoni and Stiller but that also does not get enough screen time. Leoni is excellent and adds a little gravitas as an FBI agent. And the reliable Alan Alda stamps his authority on the cast with aplomb.<br/><br/>This is a fun and entertaining movie with a little demand for suspension of disbelief. Has a nice story and doesn&#39;t try to be too smart. You will probably forget this movie next week but as long as you are not expecting too much, you will leave the cinema with a smile on your face.
Tower Heist enjoys a coincidence of sorts in its choice of opening weekend. The Occupy Wall Street protest is alive and well not too far from where this film is set and hundreds of other Occupy protests are simultaneously happening around the world. Tapping into a particular segment of that angst, Tower Heist is about the blue collar vs. the mega rich; the staff (99%) vs. the penthouse owner (1%).<br/><br/>Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is a Bernard Madoff archetype who is put under penthouse arrest by the FBI for running a Ponzi scheme and defrauding his investors. His smallest investment account happens to be the pension funds of the staff that run the vast and luxurious tower he lives on the top floor of. Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) plays the tower&#39;s manager and trusted staff leader. Stiller tries his best to pull off blue collar and Everyman characteristics here even though he was paid $15 million to try and do that. It was Josh who convinced the rest of the staff to ensure their pensions to Arthur Shaw so he feels responsible when everything goes bust.<br/><br/>Josh is not going to go down without a fight though. He is in shock that a man as rich as Arthur would swindle the meager pensions of the very employees who cook his food, take out his trash, and open his doors. The film abruptly transforms Arthur from a nice and congenial billionaire into a miserly and insulting billionaire overnight. During his house arrest, he relishes reminding the staff of their lowly station in life and just how replaceable they are as part of the service industry. Whether or not a man in Arthur&#39;s position would alter his behavior like that in reality, the script requires it of him here to provide the requisite motivation for the upcoming heist.<br/><br/>Casing the hotel, Josh picks up a motley crew of robbers who have no business robbing a piggy bank let alone a high-tech penthouse. There is Josh&#39;s brother and hotel concierge Charlie (Casey Affleck), Mr. Fitzhugh (Matthew Broderick), a former tower resident and now bankrupt banker, Enrique Dev&#39;Reaux (Michael Pena), the brand new elevator operator, and finally there is criminal and parolee Slide (Eddie Murphy). Josh knew Slide as a child; however, it takes awhile for Slide to remember Josh and when he does, he goes off on a not too funny rant on seizures.<br/><br/>Now that the team is in place, it is very lucky the film chose to open with a sort of &#39;Day in the Life&#39; of operating a luxury residence. Josh performs his morning checks of the staff and conveniently runs into an assortment of supporting characters each with their own specific quirk or skill which may or may not come into play during the heist at an integral moment. There are Miss Iovenko (Nina Arianda) who Josh reminds not to study for the Bar Exam during work hours; Odessa the maid (Gabourey Sidibe) whose skill will be revealed during the film; and there is Lester the doorman (Stephen McKinley Henderson) who is the tower&#39;s longest serving staff member.<br/><br/>Tower Heist was co-written by Ted Griffin (Ocean&#39;s Eleven) and there are quite a few similarities to Ocean&#39;s Eleven. This is a very large and recognizable cast. Frequently, I noticed the actor instead of the character which you never want to happen during a movie. Does anyone actually remember Brad Pitt&#39;s character from Ocean&#39;s Eleven? I only remember Brad Pitt the sidekick. The caper itself is extremely elaborate and requires precise timing and coincidences. Tower Heist follows all of the standard comedic heist film rules to cleanly fit inside of the genre.<br/><br/>There are not too many laughs here though. The only person who routinely cracks jokes and amusingly remarks about how inept everyone else can be is Slide. Eddie Murphy has decided to revisit the realms of his better roles from Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop and shelve the utter garbage he routinely chooses to be a part of lately (Norbit, Meet Dave). The film works without the slapstick laughs though. The audience expects them because of the relentless previews; however, they have already seen the majority of the funny material from those brief shots. The set up scenes before the heist are the most effective, especially the back and forth banter between Stiller and Alda. They represent their respective economic worlds and do not want to back down from one another for fear of letting down more than themselves, but ideas and principles which embody their positions in life.<br/><br/>See Tower Heist for the behind the scenes staff life in the tower and some amusing bits during the heist, but don&#39;t expect Ocean&#39;s Eleven.
During the heist itself, the suspense is palpable, if only because Christophe Beck's funky score blares its horns so insistently, one can't help but feel anxious. But the laughs don't follow.
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. The Ponzi scheme usually entices new investors by offering higher returns than other investments, in the form of short-term returns that are either abnormally high or unusually consistent. Perpetuation of the high returns requires an ever-increasing flow of money from new investors to keep the scheme going. The system is destined to collapse because the earnings, if any, are less than the payments to investors. Usually, the scheme is interrupted by legal authorities before it collapses because a Ponzi scheme is suspected or because the promoter is selling unregistered securities. As more investors become involved, the likelihood of the scheme coming to the attention of authorities increases. The scheme is named after Charles Ponzi who became notorious for using the technique in 1920. Ponzi did not invent the scheme (for example, Charles Dickens&#39;s 1857 novel Little Dorrit described such a scheme) but his operation took in so much money that it was the first to become known throughout the United States. Ponzi&#39;s original scheme was based on the arbitrage of international reply coupons for postage stamps; however, he soon diverted investors&#39; money to make payments to earlier investors and himself.
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