Josh Kovacs, played by Ben Stiller, is a reserved building manager of a fancy Manhattan real-estate structure, the Tower. One morning goes all wrong as Shaw (Arthur Alda), the richest of all the tenants of the building, gets arrested by the FBI for the offense of ripping off all of his investors. Those investors include the building's employees and they lose their insurances because of the event. Josh, now really on his nerves, lies down a plan and ensembles a bunch of jerks, to be heisters, to get back with the financier/wealthy son of a bitch.
Eddie Murphy comes back in this action-comedy after a decade of hibernation smothered by children fare flicks. I don't know if he actually made a comeback. There were only a few, but in those few scenes that Murphy sparked the laughs, were where the best comic scenes are. Probably that, is a warm "welcome back" poster. Ignoring the notably sloppiness of the film, 'Tower Heist' manages to deliver the fun in some outrageous stunts and actions; the effect so addictive of the comedic timing of the two leads (the two douches you see on the poster, Einstein!). The film ensembles a great cast that lists Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Michael Peña and Gabourey Sidibe only proves that these heavyweight dramatics were flexible enough doing the jickery jickery jokey time with Stiller and Murphy. The heisting group lays down a handful of members who have incompetent specialty. A good direction and nice story-telling of Brett Ratner tops all of what I've said.
'Tower Heist' is a lightweight C-movie that is coated with the stars' skills ultimately jazzing the flick up to a B-flat. It doesn't make big sense, but 'Heist' is definitely one energetic, gigglish experience.
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