Leave
your logic at the door, lean back in your seat and just enjoy this
funny, 1970s type heist using a 2011 'mark', with a sterling cast. To me
the standout performance is by Mathew Broderick who hasn't been this
funny, and relaxed on screen, in a long time. He delivers many of his
lines with a straight face that will have you laughing out loud!

The screenplay, by Ted Griffin and  Jeff Nathanson,
is about a group of employees in a luxury hi-rise, 'played' here by the
Trump International Tower, that lose their pensions, and personal
investments, to a Wall Street Madoff type of swindler and how they try to get their money back knowing he
will walk away free but that he has run away money in his penthouse
apartment! Oh, let's not forget the red Ferrari, originally owned by
Steve McQueen, the investor has sitting in his living room which becomes
an important prop.

I am
not an Eddie Murphy fan but here he neither hogs the screen or goes
overboard with the profanity and though there is a lot of the latter I
really didn't hear it! Ben Stiller, who is the leader of the gang, hires
Murphy to teach him and act as a consultant.

The
gang consists of the aforementioned Broderick, a sad sack Wall Street
ex-financier being evicted from his Tower apartment,  plus Casey Afflick with a wife due any minute who isn't sure if he wants to be involved, Stephen McKinly Henderson who attempts suicide after hearing he lost all his savings, Michael Pena, ex Burger King worker, recently employed at the tower, and Gabourey Sidibe, a Jamaican housekeeper whose father was a locksmith expert.

The
swindler is played by Alan Alda with all the smoothness a swindler
needs. Judd Hirsch is the CEO of the building while Tea Leoni, who
almost steals the movie from the guys, is an FBI agent assigned to the
swindler's case and, almost, becomes a love interest for Stiller.

The film, directed by Brett Ratner,
is fast moving, plays in, out and around the Macy's Thanksgiving
parade, Central Park, the Tower and mid-town Manhattan, is funny with
actors who know what they are doing and how to deliver the lines, corny
or sharp, making them sparkle.

It
is not an important film, will mnot win any awards and will probably
make enough money for there to be a "Tower Heist 2" that won't even come
close to being as enjoyable as this is.