![]() ![]() This leads to a montage of lessons in thievery that are some of the most ridiculously charming in the film (something about Murphy's delivery of the line "Here's your bobby pin," is hilarious).īut Murphy's presence also calls to mind what might have been: Murphy originally pitched the idea for this film back in 2005, when the band of modern-day merry men were set to rob Trump Tower. Murphy - also a producer on the film - stars as Slide, the professional thief who Josh bails out of jail to provide the criminal expertise the team so desperately needs. Fitzhugh, a disgraced and bankrupt Tower resident whose condo is foreclosed on. Leading the band of merry men to rob Shaw, after it is revealed that he also defrauded the Tower employees out of their pensions, is Stiller as Josh Kovacs, the building manager.Ĭasey Affleck, Michael Pena, and Oscar-winner Gabourey Sidibe play Tower employees and members of the heist team, joined by the only increasingly lovable Matthew Broderick as Mr. ![]() Shaw is played by Alan Alda - looking more and more like Sid from the Ice Age films - whose lack of empathy in delivering his dialogue is disturbingly on point. In this case, that's literal: The villain is Arthur Shaw, a Wall Street mogul arrested by the FBI for stealing $2 billion, who lives in the penthouse suite.įind out what Eddie Murphy had in mind when he first pitched the idea for the film after the jump. Set in New York City at an expensive condo building where the staff are the best amenity, the film is all about the little guys getting even with the man at the top. Tower Heist is a film for the 99 percent. Unfortunately for the film, Murphy's not on screen the whole time, and what narrative trudges on without him is often disappointingly bland. ![]() We'll admit to getting a little nostalgic for '80s Murphy, freed from his many fat suits. Murphy stands on the sidewalk taunting Ben Stiller as he passes by in his best suit ("punk-ass bitches" belong on the other part of the sidewalk), just as, back in 1983, Murphy taunted Dan Aykroyd in the biting satire Trading Places. There's a moment at the beginning of Tower Heist, the new comedy opening Friday by director Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour series), when you can almost forget years of Eddie Murphy's career. ![]()
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