When I first heard about this motion picture, I was somewhat impressed at the cast - Ben Stiller as you may well know is a world famous actor, playing main roles in popular films for years, but that was not the reason I was impressed. I was surprised at the fact that Eddie Murphy was starring in a film where he doesn't play the leading part - but nonetheless it worked very well.
Boom. Three pound fifty. I had purchased 'Tower Heist' on Sky Box Office and got my movie slippers on - lets do this. The opening scene was one of sheer rambunctiousness, echoing through my mind like a ball in a vacuum; It showed a man swimming in a rooftop pool and then getting out only to get in his lift to transport himself to his Penthouse suite. Immediately I was hooked, like fish to the deep wreck of the titanic, so it was a very interesting and inventive start to the picture.
The rest of the film however did not have quite the same effect. Eddie Murphy played his role well and rather convincingly as the thief and the main actor from Feris Buller was also very good adding to the well roundedness of the film.
The only downside to the film I felt was the unrealistic scenes involving the car 'made of gold'. Many different things happened in the film involving moving the car such as balancing it on top of a lift; clearly in real life no metal/plastic roof of a lift could hold over a ton of metal and gold - well certainly not on this planet.
Overall it was a fairly decent film, not one to last in your memory and quote with your friends, but more of a middle of the road picture that occasional brings a smile to your face when viewing - for this reason I am scoring the film a modest 7/10.
Boom. Three pound fifty. I had purchased 'Tower Heist' on Sky Box Office and got my movie slippers on - lets do this. The opening scene was one of sheer rambunctiousness, echoing through my mind like a ball in a vacuum; It showed a man swimming in a rooftop pool and then getting out only to get in his lift to transport himself to his Penthouse suite. Immediately I was hooked, like fish to the deep wreck of the titanic, so it was a very interesting and inventive start to the picture.
The rest of the film however did not have quite the same effect. Eddie Murphy played his role well and rather convincingly as the thief and the main actor from Feris Buller was also very good adding to the well roundedness of the film.
The only downside to the film I felt was the unrealistic scenes involving the car 'made of gold'. Many different things happened in the film involving moving the car such as balancing it on top of a lift; clearly in real life no metal/plastic roof of a lift could hold over a ton of metal and gold - well certainly not on this planet.
Overall it was a fairly decent film, not one to last in your memory and quote with your friends, but more of a middle of the road picture that occasional brings a smile to your face when viewing - for this reason I am scoring the film a modest 7/10.