Michelle Hamilton

What a stinker! How can there be so many positive/warm reviews of this, at best, mediocre waste of 2 hrs.? Even in a heist film, the audience should be led to believe that the theft is somehow physically possible...but not in this movie, where a 4000-lb. car made of gold magically appears at the bottom of a rooftop swimming pool after last being seen resting aloft an elevator, stuck in the shaft, with no explanation as to its sudden "relocation" ever offered. Every other plot "twist" is instantly predictable and, despite some credible acting, I was rolling my eyes at my husband and sighing aloud in disbelief through the last half of the film. As soon as they'd been told that their pensions had been squandered, the lowly "working stiffs" that comprise the Tower's dedicated staff should have ransacked Alan Alda's embezzling character's apartment for valuables and set the skyscraper ablaze, rejoicing in satisfaction from Columbus Circle, featured prominently throughout the movie. The film's real heist was of my precious time! Watch either or both versions of the far-more-satisfying Thomas Crown Affair, instead.