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Strong and Moving!

Beautiful, moving film.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Tony is a really nice guy, but after being pressured to get a "real job", he tries to ignore his love of music to be a businessman in the world's smartest building, a high-tech skyscraper called Intercorp. Within the skyscraper a supercomputer named CAS controls the entire building. When Tony messes with his ID card and it confuses CAS, CAS begins trying to exterminate Tony by hunting him down, accidentally killing a security guard and a CEO in the process. Now Tony is stuck in the tower, along with his childhood friend, now his co-worker.I don't understand why this has such bad reviews! Sure it's a little outdated and low-budget, but it's a great TV movie thriller, comedic and suspenseful, without needing to rely on bad CGI effects and fart jokes to be entertaining. CAS is an uncanny resemblance to GlaDOS from Portal, a homicidal computing system with many sarcastic jokes and pranks to play on Tony. The soundtrack, which is that corporate 80's/90's keyboard synthesized stuff, sounds pretty cool. The Tower is outdated slightly even for its time but can still be funny today. The acting was decent enough and although there were a few sexual jokes from CAS, the film remains not rude enough to be too annoying to watch. It certainly isn't boring, it has a moment or two that drags on but is still thrilling from beginning to end and doesn't quit. I personally really enjoyed it, and thought it was far better than that Hunger Games crud that's so popular right now. Don't judge The Tower just on reviews, check it out for yourself to see what you think, you might be surprised.

The Tower 1993 movie is definitely a very flawed but yet enjoyable SCI-FI fantasy horror film.New worker Tony Minot (played by Paul Reiser) messes his key card by using the old jimmy the lock open trick after locking himself out of his apartment (back then they seemed to issue the key cards before your first day of work).It's not quite clear what Tony's new exact job is, but he isn't the model worker. He seems to eat unhealthy (cold pizza for breakfast), goof off (play paper ball slide on vent ducts), failed to watch the orientation videos (they were boring), and tampers with the equipment which gets the security system really upset.Littlehill the boss (Roger Rees) is definitely a no non-sense guy stickler. But then again he gives Tony a huge assignment just before quitting time that day; despite the fact that Tony has a date. I mean come on, it's his first day; and then of all things Littlehill goes into his own personal sauna (a sauna at work??).But that's just the least of Tony's worries as the security system goes on night mode and turns very brutal starting to execute the employees; thinking they're Tony.Tony eventually makes it out but then his co-worker (Linda played by Susan Norman) steps in and he has to rescue her and go back through the horror fun house for round two.This film is like that X-Files episode "Ghost in the Machine" plugging into DIE HARD.While the film is set on 8/1/1992 (which is actually a Saturday), the music and sounds make it seem more like 1987 or 1988.This is just yet another underrated TV movie. The whole film seems unintentionally funny.I would definitely see the film if it sounds interesting.

A cheap, dumb, derivative and mostly unintentionally funny hybrid of sci-fi and disaster flicks that nonetheless manages to entertain, IF you're not too demanding. Would be a prime candidate for a feature on "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" if that show was still on the air. The technology and effects in the movie are already hilariously out of date, like some bad TV-movie from the 1970s. Some prime heckle-worthy dialogue and situations abound. All in all, amateurish fun for everyone!

You should wait nothing deep from this movie, and nothing is what it delivers. There are times though where you're looking for just a pass-time and it's quite good at this. In fact I found it rather pleasant, as the directing is adequate and the acting not too pompous. The main idea could produce a very good thriller, but as another reviewer noted Stanley Kubrick has already taken care of this.