Tower Heist
If it is remembered for anything, 2011 will go down in the film history books as the year when we suddenly didn’t know how the hell to title a movie. Bad Teacher, Horrible Bosses, Cowboys and Aliens — if Jaws came out this summer, they’d have called it Big Shark. At any rate, Tower Heist is, unsurprisingly, about a heist in a tower, and we’re not sure what to think of this one. On one hand, the script is by Ocean’s 11 scribe Ted Griffin (who clearly knows how to write an entertaining heist movie) and Catch Me if You Can’s Jeff Nathanson (who clearly knows how to do a caper with some heart). The supporting cast is full of people we like: Alan Alda, Casey Affleck, Téa Leoni, Judd Hirsch, Gabby Sidibe. But the stars are Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller — neither of whom have proven terribly reliable over the past decade or so — and the director is, ugh, Brett Ratner, who has (no exaggeration) never directed a good movie (his credits include X-Men: The Last Stand, Red Dragon, and the Rush Hour trilogy). So, yeah, toss of the coin here.
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Ratner’s resume is even worse than you think: he’s responsible for X-Men: The Last Stand, not Matthew Vaughn’s First Class.
Ah, hell. Corrected.
You guys will really go see anything Ryan Reynolds does outside of a comic book movie?
That looks so cool. When is it released?
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[...] or “return to form” or whatever. This notion requires two giant leaps: 1) ignoring the Tower Heist trailer, which shows Murphy doing the same tired tough-guy schtick and exaggerated “street” [...]
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