Nothing reeks of hierarchy quite so much as a high-rise building. The employees beavering away in the bowels of the building are in a totally different world than the penthouse big-shot up there with his Dom Perignon pool, solid gold helipad and other bling what-not. Tower Heist is very much a story of the little men against the Big One, a "steal from the rich, give to the poor" caper, as acted by some of Hollywood's highest earners. Ah well, what is comedy without irony?

Josh Kovacs (Ben Stiller) manages a high-rise of luxury apartments; he runs a tight ship, and is respected by all of his workers. That is, until penthouse inhabitant Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda) is nabbed for fraud; the pension fund he's set up for the building's staff has vaporised. After getting himself fired and realising there's no legal way to win the money back, Kovacs gets wind of Shaw's secret stash of $20 million. All he's got to do is find it. And then steal it.

Early on, Tower Heist oozes similarities to Horrible Bosses: a group of very ordinary, very desperate men who want to get their own back on the powers that be, calling on the help of a black criminal (Eddie Murphy is our man this time, playing bragging petty thief Slide) to do so.

Oddly, despite its ludicrous plot, Tower Heist is a more levelheaded beast than Horrible Bosses. No one overplays their role: Alda is not too evil, Stiller is not too dull, Matthew Broderick's down-and-out businessman is not too wimpy. Murphy is not too... well, actually Murphy is a bit too much like Eddie Murphy.

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