Preview: Tower Heist (2011)

Synopsis:

A group of employees at a swanky penthouse apartment complex are cheated out of their pension money in a ponzi scheme. After the Feds come in and put the culprit under house arrest, a handful of the employees begin plotting to steal the money that is owed them.

• Poster: B-

Review:

A single tower in the distance isn't terribly emblematic, though this poster does a better job than most of displaying the cast without looking tacky or cliched.

• Trailer: C; C-

Review:

The trailer is fairly formulaic in its presentation of the film. There's a large amount of plotting revealed, but not enough to make it unwatchable, though Eddie Murphy doesn't look up to the task, nor does Ben Stiller. Gabourey Sidibe might be the redeeming quality of the film.

If it's possible to make a film look worse than it already does, the producers of this second trailer have succeeded. Painfully unfunny and irretrievably banal and there's not much that could redeem it.

Oscar Prospects:

None

Release Date:

• November 4, 2011

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (July 31, 2011) Original

-Wesley Lovell (October 30, 2011) New Trailer