![]() ![]() (The aptly named Will, an FBI hostage rescue team leader turned building security consultant, wears a fake leg throughout the film, making his tenacity more impressive. As Will Sawyer, a married father of two who loses a leg in the violent prologue that opens the film, and who must rescue his family from the world's tallest building after arsonists set it on fire, Johnson keeps the film from flagging, even at its most predictable. What? You were expecting, maybe, an Oscar nominee in July?įrom the moment that we meet the nice guy who almost immediately reveals himself to be bad, to the moment that gun-toting villains introduce themselves by saying, with transparent falsehood, "It's OK, we're the good guys, you're safe," Skyscraper is exactly what we all know it to be, and no more: a silly, forgettable yet moderately watchable showcase for derring-do and special effects.Ĭhief among those effects is Johnson himself, whose charisma burns like a force of nature. Voila: a movie that will satisfy your deepest craving for eye candy without a shred of nourishment. Place on the middle rack of a 3,000-foot Hong Kong high-rise that's on fire, courtesy of a bad guy with an indeterminate foreign accent, natch, and sprinkle generously with cliches. ![]() Take two cups of The Towering Inferno, half a pound of Die Hard (not necessarily a bad thing, mind you) and stir in every Dwayne Johnson action movie ever made, until the consistency of cornmeal. There are few surprises delivered in Skyscraper, an entertaining if middlebrow thriller whose very name - blandly descriptive, generic - seems to advertise its fungibility.
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