Eddie murphy new movie tower heist12/28/2023 Instead, the best comic moments come from the outsiders that Josh invites to join his crew. Stiller steers the movie like an expert concierge, making sure that everything runs smoothly without drawing much attention to himself. Imagine the Ocean’s Eleven caper being planned by the hotel staff from Maid in Manhattan. They’re smarter than the Stooges, but not by much. Not even the perpetrators, including Charlie, Odessa and elevator man Enrique (Michael Pena), know what’s going on. Plotting for the heist itself - which Josh dreams up after an indiscreet FBI agent (Tea Leoni) tips him off about a missing $20 million that might be in Arthur’s apartment - is entirely lackadaisical. Despite its ripped from the headlines topic, Ratner and a quartet of writers keep it light. This is, after all, a film from Brett Ratner, the director behind the cheerfully mindless Rush Hour franchise. Of course, Tower Heist isn’t dark enough to actually kill off the doorman. (MORE: How close are Madoff’s Victims to Getting Their Money Back?) Even news that his building’s bereft elderly doorman tried to throw himself in front of a subway train doesn’t ruffle this 1 percenter’s feathers. But everyone from Charlie the concierge (Casey Affleck) to Odessa the Jamaican maid (Gabourey Sidibe) turn on the mogul when they discover that he not only lost the staff’s entire pension fund but, what’s more, doesn’t feel any remorse. Josh even doubts that Arthur could really be guilty of the Ponzi scheme that he has been accused of perpetrating. The staff at The Tower has been fiercely loyal to Arthur, particularly building manager Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller), who is so devoted that he listens to cooking shows for ideas on which cheese and wine pairings Arthur should serve at dinner parties. Their target in this jovial but lazy economy comedy (Can we call it an econ com? Ok, let’s call it an econ com.) is a smooth talking Bernie Madoff-like character named Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), who is under house arrest in his penthouse apartment. Follow timely Tower Heist, which is twice as funny as I thought it would be but not half as funny as it could have been, is about a working class rebellion among the service employees in a luxury Manhattan high-rise.
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