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The idea of gathering two comedic stars like Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller together for a “caper” film sill sounds good to me, even after watching them grind through their new movie “Tower Heist.”
“Tower Heist” seems to have had everything going for it, but I think that’s exactly the reason it falls short of its mark. It just may have had too much star power and so little for them to do.
The plot revolves around a high finance banker who swindles the employees of an expensive high-rise out of their pensions. Their solution to the problem is to rob they guy out of millions of dollars he supposedly has hidden in a secret safe he has in his residence.
That’s when the “fun” should begin.
It doesn’t
Ben Stiller plays the concierge of the building and the brains behind the caper. Stiller approaches the role with a deadpan quality, as if his character is bereft of emotion.
As the story progresses, he enlists the help of a streetwise con man. Played by Eddie Murphy. Murphy is back to his 1980’s quick talking self, but the patter is more annoying than funny.
Murphy and Stiller do their best to offer up some comic exchanges, but alas, these two veteran comic actors just don’t mesh well, leaving the audience with only a handful of smiles and no real laughs.
“Tower Heist” is a less than average outing and deserves a C-. The film is rated PG-13.
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I gave it a C. For me the biggest two problems were the writing and the fact the director had so little latitude to allow comics like Murphy and Stiller to work with. Alan Alda was pretty predictable and two dimensional, which was a huge disappointment for such a great actor. Still, I suppose protection of the writers and their ideas had to be contractually maintained….Hmmmm.
Could have been much better.