His name is Scratch Cassidy (Sam Worthington). He's an ex-cop, serving a prison term. Let outside for a day under armed escort to attend his father's funeral, he escapes from his guards, dump his prisoner's uniform, makes it into Manhattan, looks into an inn, gets into a major breakfast and moves out on the ledge.
At this point, on the off chance that we're capable moviegoers, we have a smart thought he won't bounce anytime real soon, because then the film could be finished, get it? No, we will get a ton of perspective shots gazing directly down past the toes of his shoes. Man, is he high up. He gathers a major group, which stops traffic.
At the same time, the film removes to David Englander (Ed Harris), a wealthy master of the universe whose workplaces are in a skyscraper across the road. He's preparing to uncover his grandiose plan to raise a skyscraper. I've neglected its name, so we should call it the Englander Pinnacle, in honor of the Donald.
Presently we cut between Scratch Cassidy, David Englander and Joey (Jamie Chime) and Angie (Beginning Rodriguez). For what reason do I always suppose individuals named Joey and Angie are New Yorkers? I'm certain there are heaps of them somewhere else. Anyway, Angie emulates the new variety of female action champion by fitting herself into a skin-tight latex outfit that incorporates a push-up bra planned along the same lines that made the facade of the Sydney Opera House conceivable. Then she starts crawling through air shafts.
Across the road, a cop named Jack Dougherty (Edward Consumes) arrives in the lodging to talk down the jumper. Soon he's replaced by a NYPD clinician named Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks). Down underneath, on signal, the group chants bounce! bounce! while wanting to film the death on their iPhones and get some change from "Observer News." Television journalist Suzie Morales (Kyra Sedgwick) breathlessly covers the story. Her station's NewsChopper supportively flies so near the ledge that its downdraft threatens to blow Scratch into a thousand YouTube postings.
What amount would it be advisable for me to reveal? I could explain the connection, if any, between the occasions on the two sides of the road. Allow me just to say it's all part of an interesting plan to steal the world's largest diamond. Hence, Scratch's job is to attract attention and hold up traffic, correct? Indeed, and profess to almost fall at the perfect second so an explosion will be ignored, and so on.
However, hang on. What we have here is a master plan that absolutely relies upon Scratch (1) being released for the funeral, (2) escaping two armed guards, (3) getting safely into Manhattan, (4) looking into a room on the right floor and side of the lodging and (5) not falling off the ledge prematurely, which wouldn't only kill him yet ruin the entire plan. And meanwhile, Joey and Angie have to find the world's largest diamond, which isn't where it should be. Maybe it has been veiled as a diamond-plated Ferrari? No, that was "Pinnacle Heist." And there also has to be the ideal opportunity for the television columnist to summarize the meaning of all that and achieve the happy closure.
You say that all sounds plausible to you? Alright. In any case, this is what I question. You know those large air mattresses that fire fighters inflate to break falls from high places? Do you accept that when it becomes earnest for Scratch to be at road level at this moment, he could take a full breath, get a running start on the ledge, hop like a phantom and land safely after his fall of 21 stories? That's where I draw the line.