Skyscraper (2018)

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber

Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han

A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family are trapped inside by criminals.

Yawn. Oh, its review time! Well, this was (yet another) disappointing Dwayne Johnson film. ‘The Towering Inferno’ meets ‘Die Hard’ – only less believable. Uhm, in fact nothing about this film was believable and there was nothing original about it. The Korean film ‘The Tower’ was much better!

The film is fast-paced, but there are just too many narrow escapes and close calls to make it believable – a typical Hollywood flaw. They tried so hard to make it incredible that they ruined the reality. There are also way too many conveniences, which I won’t even go into. Hollywood never learns. A film like this should be kept plain and simple with the call to adventure the fight to survive and escape the inferno. But no, they have to over-complicate it with too much information, set-ups and twists.  There’s so much about the ‘explanation’ about why this is happening that doesn’t make sense. I played this explanation scene back four times and still couldn’t make sense of it all.

The acting also wasn’t great. ‘Skyscraper’ was as unoriginal as it comes, not to mention very cheesy. Thumbs up to the visual effects department, though.