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I saw another version of this movie about 8 years before this one was released. There was a computer named Lola that was absorbing human energy and trapped a bunch of people inside a building. The newer version 1994 differed greatly from the original but the same theme was used. I like movies where computers take over some of my favorites are Demon Seed and Colusus the Forbin Project. I think one day computers will be smarter than humans possibly in our lifetime. I mean in my fathers day going to the moon was science fiction but today its an every day occurrence, these movies show the dangers of science and technologies continual progress and are to be noted.

This is a movie where you constantly will be commenting about how stupid and unrealistic one scene after another is. It could have been a good movie, but it just gets too enoying, because you keep seing a computer doing the most stupid things, that no computer would, and people do things that doesn't make sence. They seem to have programmed the computer to kill intruders and vandalists!!! Watch it with friends so you can have a laugh at it.

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 The technology and effects in the movie are already hilariously out of date, like some bad TV-movie from the 1970s.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!

Even though this film is really dumb and unoriginal there is a fun feel to it. Sides, you got to love a movie where a computer really hates Paul Reiser and tries to kill him. (after those damn phone commercials I don't blame him. Candice Bergen is still worse) It's great for a night were you and friends want to heckle movies. Enjoy this little cheese ball. I did.

Tony Minot (Paul Reiser) starts a new job at Intercorp in the fortress-like structure of the title. It's a fully automated building, where the humans seem more like worker drones than human employees. The atmosphere is ominous from the beginning, and Tony is completely lost.

Tony doesn't take things very seriously, especially the security system. Unfortunately, it takes him very seriously.

THE TOWER is a made-for-TV horror-sci-fi movie about technology gone mad. Reiser is perfectly cynical / sarcastic in his role, making it all more fun than expected. The idea of an office building preying on humans that it views as a threat was also done in the 1985 version of this film. It has been used in an early episode of THE X-FILES as well.

So, take out your brain and just enjoy the ride...