Movie Review: Tower Heist
So, I rented "Tower Heist" today after work. We watched it after dinner.
I'm not sure if the script is clever or long-winded. Possibly both. The ending of the movie was very clever - the whole thing was reminiscent of "Ocean's 11" without the swagger. There are little hints throughout the movie that all add up in the end, things that if you aren't paying attention seem like useless chatter. The problem with this is that getting from the beginning of the movie to the end seems to take forever. IMDB claims the movie is 104 minutes long. It felt much longer. If I didn't need to return the movie tomorrow, I'd have probably shut it off and tried again a different day. As it was, I pushed through.
Ben Stiller did a great job. I didn't even know that Tea Leoni was in this movie, so that was a nice surprise. Gabourey Sidibe's Jamacian accent was a very big surprise. Eddie Murphy did a good job. Matthew Broderick was very funny. And the guy who played the Lester the Doorman was Stephen McKinley Henderson, I very much liked his character and thought he did a great job as well.
And if you've seen the previews (or the movie) then you know that Alan Alda plays the bad guy. He did it well, but I don't like seeing him playing the bad guy. He'll always be Hawkeye to me, anyway.
I didn't hate the movie, but I think it lacked a true genre. Here I go trying to stuff it in one box or another, but I think that a distinction like that is important. You wouldn't want to have decaying zombies in what is primarily a love story, would you? (Or maybe you would, what do I know?) IMDB lists this movie as Action, Comedy, and Crime.
All three aspects are certainly there. But it wasn't a funny movie. A few spots, here or there, but nothing to write home about. There was action, but really only towards the end and it involved a car hanging out of a window. And there was crime, the whole plot was based around it. But to pick one of them over the other two, I wouldn't try to do it. (Although I think I just did try. Silly me.) I didn't hate this movie. I very much love the ending but was disappointed in the first two-thirds of the movie.
I wouldn't deter someone from watching the movie, but I probably wouldn't watch it again either.
Wow, that wasn't a ringing endorsement, was it? Good thing no one asked me to, then.
I'm not sure if the script is clever or long-winded. Possibly both. The ending of the movie was very clever - the whole thing was reminiscent of "Ocean's 11" without the swagger. There are little hints throughout the movie that all add up in the end, things that if you aren't paying attention seem like useless chatter. The problem with this is that getting from the beginning of the movie to the end seems to take forever. IMDB claims the movie is 104 minutes long. It felt much longer. If I didn't need to return the movie tomorrow, I'd have probably shut it off and tried again a different day. As it was, I pushed through.
Ben Stiller did a great job. I didn't even know that Tea Leoni was in this movie, so that was a nice surprise. Gabourey Sidibe's Jamacian accent was a very big surprise. Eddie Murphy did a good job. Matthew Broderick was very funny. And the guy who played the Lester the Doorman was Stephen McKinley Henderson, I very much liked his character and thought he did a great job as well.
And if you've seen the previews (or the movie) then you know that Alan Alda plays the bad guy. He did it well, but I don't like seeing him playing the bad guy. He'll always be Hawkeye to me, anyway.
I didn't hate the movie, but I think it lacked a true genre. Here I go trying to stuff it in one box or another, but I think that a distinction like that is important. You wouldn't want to have decaying zombies in what is primarily a love story, would you? (Or maybe you would, what do I know?) IMDB lists this movie as Action, Comedy, and Crime.
All three aspects are certainly there. But it wasn't a funny movie. A few spots, here or there, but nothing to write home about. There was action, but really only towards the end and it involved a car hanging out of a window. And there was crime, the whole plot was based around it. But to pick one of them over the other two, I wouldn't try to do it. (Although I think I just did try. Silly me.) I didn't hate this movie. I very much love the ending but was disappointed in the first two-thirds of the movie.
I wouldn't deter someone from watching the movie, but I probably wouldn't watch it again either.
Wow, that wasn't a ringing endorsement, was it? Good thing no one asked me to, then.