- 8
...deserves credit as a clean, well-turned job, fleet and funny and inconsequential. It gets in and gets out quickly. . . . and leaves no trace once it's gone.
—Nick Pinkerton Village Voice
- 8
...a cunningly engineered movie that's as much fun as Ocean's 11, a tale of a Renoir of ripoff whomatches skills with freewheeling, improvisational rivals -- the Jackson Pollocks of plunder.
—Kyle Smith New York Post
- 7
...Griffin and Jeff Nathanson use the financial mayhem as a plot trigger for an elaborate scheme that, however far-fetched, is all but irresistible in its criminal legitimacy and its promise for just desserts.
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 7
For what it is - recessionary wish-fulfillment escapism, with a lot of highly skilled familiar faces in its amply qualified cast - it's fun.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 7
...might not be a classic (it's not), but at least for a little while it will make you laugh instead of cry about the current state of affairs, which is more than you can say about a lot of things.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 6
...a slick caper...
—Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club
- 6
You won't remember Tower Heist7 an hour later, but the top cast makes the jokes (even the lousy ones) go down easy.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 6
...the cinematic version of a Trump property: overblinged, eye-catching, and essentially tacky.
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 6
This isn't a great heist movie for a lot of reasons, beginning with the stupidity of its heist plan and the impossibility of these characters ever being successful at anything more complex than standing in line.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...comes out of the gate with confidence and promise, but only just barely gets the job done.
—Jesse Hassenger filmcritic.com
- 6
...so-so...
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 5
...funny in the way of so many Hollywood comedies, meaning that individual scenes are often crisply written and played, but the whole doesn't add up to anything.
—Andrew O'Hehir Salon
- 4
The big-budget pic goes wonky on the way to the bank, due to its lackluster pacing and shortage of the qualities that typically earn stars Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy their paychecks -- namely, laughs.
—Peter Debruge Variety
- 4
Mr. Ratner goes for the safe bet and the easy score, which means that, for all his shows of solidarity with the working stiffs, he has more in common with the wealthy scam artist who took their hard-earned money.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 3
...a bland, schematic contrivance of a class comedy that never elicits any responses beyond the primitive and the childish.
—R. Kurt Oseland Slant Magazine