Just when you're ready to give Brett Ratner a pass for his latest effort Tower Heist, which is by no means a great comedy, but it's watchable. He does something insane, and totally abandons his beloved star Eddie Murphy.
Keeping in mind that Ratner chose Murphy to host the Oscar show HE was going to direct before he was forced to resign for saying misogynistic and homophobic shit in public, you'd think that he'd give Murphy more screen time.
What is insane (and infuriating) about Ratner's choices as director is that he betrays the most basic storytelling, storytelling 101. It's not that the characters arcs aren't compelling, it's that Murphy doesn't even appear in the last 5 mins.
You find out what happens to everyone else, Michael Pena, Gabourey Sidibe, Matthew Broderick, but what the hell happened to Eddie Murphy? He just needed one more scene, one more beat to complete (or round off) his character arc but Ratner leaves us hanging like that car on the tower.
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