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Tower Heist: Of Cheap Thrills
Updated On: 04 November, 2011 08:42 PM IST | | Suprateek Chatterjee
It's hard to take a movie seriously, even in fun, when it doesn't take itself seriously, and Tower Heist is proof of this.
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Tower Heist
U/A; Action, Comedy
Dir: Brett Ratner
Cast: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Gabourey Sidibe
Rating:u00a0* * (out of 5)
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Tower Heist, a crime caper featuring an all-star Hollywood cast that includes the likes of Stiller, Murphy and Alda, features a scene which could've been lifted from a David Dhawan's Rascals-likeu00a0Bollywood trash-festu00a0 wherein the overweight Odessa (Sidibe, of Oscar-nominated Precious fame) has an innuendo-laden conversation with Slide (Murphy), which ends with her wanting to do 'things' with 'his pole'. Don't get me wrong; I like cheap, sex-related humour as much as the next person, provided it's well written. The problem in this case, however, is that not only are the lines badly written, but they're cracked at Sidibe's expense.
In case it isn't clear enough, let me spell out what I'm trying to say here -- they turned an Oscar-nominated actress into Guddi Maruti from every '90s Hindi comedy.
Call this an overreaction, but it's not like the rest of Tower Heist makes up for it. A heist movie involving the staff of a swanky service apartment building attempting to get back at a Bernie Madoff-type character, who has stolen all their money is a premise with potential. A cast this talented, a team of writers and a decent budget at their disposal -- and what they come up with is this underdone sometimes-amusing action-comedy.
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