“Tower Heist” is a crime comedy about wronged employees of a high-end apartment complex who decide to take back what is theirs. The movie features a star-studded cast including Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller, and these two nearly save the movie. Nearly.
The film starts out slow and never really picks up momentum. It will have you laughing occasionally, but not over anything too memorable. For a crime comedy the crime is not very clever or even plausible and the comedy is lacking, well, comedy; a bit of improvement in one or the other could have made a good movie. The actors perform well, but were not given much to work with in the script. The movie strikes the common cord of the common man taking back what is his, now if only the filmmakers could take back this common movie.