Dwayne Johnson

Neve Campbell

Chin Han

Roland Møller

Noah Taylor

Byron Mann

Pablo Schreiber

McKenna Roberts

Noah Cottrell

Hannah Quinlivan

Adrian Holmes

Elfina Luk

Kevin Rankin

Gretal Montgomery

Jett Klyne

Kayden Magnuson

Byron Lawson

Jason William Day

Ryan Handley

Sean Kohnke

Shawn Stewart

Brian Ho

Nelson Wong

Mike Li

Colin Corrigan

Omari Newton

Venus Terzo

Paul McGillion

Matt O'Leary

Tzi Ma

Tina Tong

Carlo Yu

Dimitry Tsoy

Allen Keng

Sam Yunussov

Paul Wu

Glenn Chow

Rob 'Sluggo' Boyce

Aaron Au

Grace Wang

Marcus Sim

Rene Wang

Kathy Wu

Lawrence Chau

Evan Lai

Shamel Hashish

Matthew Wolf

Fabio Tassone

Leanne Suter

Rick Chambers

Lasaundra Gibson

Wendy Jacobson

Sarah K. Thurber

Malin Barr

Vivian Full

Beatrice King

Krista Bell

Owen Walstrom

Jared Hasselbach

Joanna Mireau

Jodi Stecyk

Tanoai Reed

Matthew Johnson

Rawson Marshall Thurber

Hiram Garcia

Beau Flynn

Dany Garcia

Jeff Sanca

Angela Uyeda

Steve Jablonsky

Michael L. Sale

J.J. Perry

Lauren Geaghan

Cheryl Marion

Grant Van Der Slagt

Connie Parker

Linda Luong

Joel Whist

Craig Humphries

Shannon Courte

Austin Chuqiao Wang

Dean Eilertson

Kyle Winkelman

Sepp Sonntag

Craig Hammack

Lee Anne Muldoon

James D. Bissell

Lin MacDonald

Brian Cunningham

Katie Plumer

Dan Cervin

Robert Elswit

Jason Marlow

Petra Holtorf

Dylan Goss

Mark G. Alexander

Kim Olsen

Joe Papp

Krista Husar

Mary Parent

Gem Ronn Cadiz

Neethu Vijayakumar

Duane Manwiller

Sean Oxenbury

Jeremy Muir

Dan O'Connell

Luca Mosca

Merc Arceneaux

John Dale

James Mann

Eric Jennings

Christopher Walsh

Kevin Knight

Jessica Lythgoe-Green

Stefan Sonnenfeld

Joecy Shepherd

Ann Foley

Norbert Kaluza

Kimberly French

Sean Thompson

Rob Fournier

Bernhard Kimbacher

Nazariy Hatak

Djinous Rowling

Ian Sullivan

Andrea Manchur

Patty Connolly

William M. DeBiasio

Geraldine Morales

Niall Fraser

Helen Jarvis

Rebeccah Delchambre

Ronnie Sidhu

John Trapman

Brad McGregor

Lindsey Kear

Christina Petford

Margaret Yen

Frédéric North

Kimi Webber

Peter Afterman

Patrick Weir

Ric Walkington

Tom Hartig

John C. Stuver

Shamess Shute

Paul Romo

John Catron

Briana Scott

James Bitonti

Tysen Schieber

Colin Anderson

Rod Haney

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Jedi Burrell

You might expect a former FBI agent to be able to handle a gun, or protect himself at gunpoint. But you sure as hell don’t expect a doctor to, and yet, Sarah Sawyer can not only steal a gun pointed at her, she can stop a burning building’s fire without even being in the building!

Will Sawyer’s posed with a challenge when the tablet that he was for some reason given with full control of the security system and just about everything else about the building, gets stolen, the building set on fire, and his family stuck above the fire with little means to get out.

Will, who is now a suspect, takes it upon himself to enter the burning building, get his family, and leave the burning building. This isn’t as easy as that sounds, because there’s a MacGuffin to be gotten and the people that set the building on fire will stop at nothing to get it. Oh, and did I mention **he only has one leg!**

_Minor spoilers ahead._

Skyscraper was extremely predictable, the only thing I didn’t see coming was the fact that they wasted five minutes of our time showing Will telling Sarah to turn off and back on her phone to fix it, just to set up the ending where Sarah turns off and back on the building to stop the fire.

The one thing I did enjoy from this film was near the ending when they’re in _The Pearl_, but you don’t watch a movie for a single scene.

Rawson Thurber should stick to comedy, where he has experience. This is a waste of the $125,000,000 it took to make it, and it’s a waste of the $12 to watch it. Skip this one.

Per Gunnar Jonsson

Well, if you are a fan of The Rock this is a decent enough high octane action, disaster and special effects movie. If not, well then you probably have to be a pretty big fan of special effects and action to overlook its weak points.

Let’s start with the good stuff. One, it is The Rock (yes I am a fan) although he certainly doesn’t come out at his best in this movie. Personally I could do without the artificial leg crap but it didn’t bother me too much in the end. It didn’t really add anything except some silly (and unrealistic scenes) though.

Then we have the action and the special effects. They were as good as you would expect from a multi million dollar action movie. At least I enjoyed them. I really liked the design of the Skyscraper. I thought it was booth cool and beautiful. I kind of would like to see it built in real life.

Was the movie derivative? Well of course it can be said to be derivative! How many movies with burning Skyscrapers and bad guys hi-jacking them can you make before it becomes derivative after all? The first movie named Skyscraper was made in 1928 for Christ sake. It didn’t bother me at all.

Now for the not so good. The movie was hugely predictable. I mean, you could tell who the bad guys were from the first scene they were in. Especially the rat faced jerk Mr Pierce. The main bad guy? Well, he was no Hans Gruber that’s for sure. More like a common thug. The movie really lacked a bad guy with some charisma. Overall, most of the movie from start to finish was really a no-surprise-there event from the first bad guy entering the scene to the rebooting of the systems.

Then we have the realism factor. I do not expect an action and special effects movie to be realistic but there are some limits. Sawyer climbing around on the outside of the building (with one leg remember) in the updraft from 50 or so burning levels was just nonsense. Also, a building burning that much and that long and yet all the electrical wiring and plumbing still working was a bit too much. The absolutely worst offence though was how everyone magically survived sitting in the middle of the fire being extinguished by the release of halon gas (or some equivalent). That just brings stupidity (or maybe laziness) in script writing to a whole new level.

So, to sum it up, this move could have been a lot better. To me it was saved by The Rock and my love of special effects loaded action movies.

Gimly

_Die Hard in a (X)_ is a pretty classic movie formula, it doesn't get as much play now as it did in the 80s and 90s, but we can still reliably expect at **least** one every couple of years, even now. But when it's _Die Hard in a Skyscraper_... I mean... That's just _Die Hard_. Even _Die Hard 2_ had the sensibility to be _Die Hard in an Airport_.

Except that, no, this isn't just _Die Hard_, because (and I don't think anyone would be shocked to find this) it's not as good. I mean I love The Rock and all, but come on.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

It's an ultimate frame of mind movie.

It is what it is, it's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as the hero of the tale who has to achieve the impossible when the world's tallest building catches fire. His family is trapped in said building inferno and there's bad guys running around creating trouble.

So sit down and get ready for fantastically high energy action scenes and hold your breath peril sequences. You have to be in the right frame of mind for this type of entertainment, to understand it's a blockbusting popcorn piece made to take you out of the real world, it does not have cranial splendours or social commentary.

It's great to have Neve Campbell back kicking butt, rising above just being a female token waiting to be saved by her heroic husband. And of course if you can't smile at the makers having Johnson being handicapped with an artificial leg - and still turning into Usain Bolt for various scenes - then this isn't the film for you.

Some way short of the classy verve of The Towering Inferno or the brutal brilliance of Die Hard, this does its job handsomely enough for the like minded souls after some escapist carnage. 6/10

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A review by Jedi Burrell

Written by Jedi Burrell on Mon Jul 16 2018

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