![]() and not enough in letting us get to know the characters. It spends too much time setting up the plot mechanics - the origin of Will's artificial leg, the gimmick of rebooting a phone, Henry's asthma, etc. A cross between The Towering Inferno and Die Hard, Skyscraper is at least a manageable 102 minutes long, but at the same time, it's slow to get going. This action movie has about four gripping sequences of heart-pounding suspense, but they're surrounded by too much ridiculous, ineffective stuff stressful scenes of kids in peril tip the balance. Now imagine if she were the one tasked with saving the day, and her family, and the entire building. She fights fairly effectively (she did all her stunts herself) and contributes to the outcome of this film in quite substantial ways. (She also speaks several Asian languages, which comes in handy throughout the film.) If your only reason is to see her return to a major role, this is worth your time. For the first time Campbell is an assistant hero to Johnoson as her character, Sarah is never a damsel in distress, but rather a combat-trained surgeon capable of kicking her own allotment of butt while also caring for her kids. ![]() Neve Campbell is the pleasant surprise in this film and in interviews she stated the script is what drew her too it. And as the flames rise higher and higher from what began as a thin, orange line on the 96th floor, the danger and the insanity climb with them. (They shouldn’t even have bothered explaining it, the item in question is so disproportionately insignificant compared to the mayhem it causes.) But when they torch the joint, they don’t realize that Will’s wife and kids are still inside one of the residential units. A team of villains, led by the menacing Kores Botha (Roland Moller), has broken in with highly flammable chemicals in order to steal the most McGuffiny of McGuffins. “Skyscraper” kicks into gear pretty quickly and remains relentless. His family lives in the higher floors (floor 110 I believe) and they are caught in the high rise skyscraper when the criminals start the fire, It is up to Johnson to save them, and let the guns, bullets, and fire start flying.ĭirector Rawson Marshall Thurber isn’t terribly interested in steadily building tension. ![]() This time the film is a cross between Die Hard and Inferno, as a high rise apartment building that Johnson is consulting too is set on fire by a nefarious group of bandits who want to get the owner of the building who has dirt on their bosses, so he needs to be eliminated.Ĭall in Johnson's Will Sawyer is a security consultant who lost his leg as a solider. This is a typical action film from Dwayne Johnson but with atypical actress Neve Campbell, who has not been a major player in a theater film in quite some time.
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