Well, the movie
is, as people say, very familiar—which then turns that familiarity into
predictability about what could happen and what will happen. I think the
overexposure of Dwayne Johnson and some familiar stunts we’ve seen before make
this movie difficult to take seriously.
Here’s a $125 million budget film that feels like an overly expensive B-movie.
I enjoyed it anyway.
Skyscraper is the second collaboration between director Rawson Marshall
Thurber and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The first was Central
Intelligence (2016), an action comedy where The Rock starred
alongside Kevin Hart.
This Die Hard (1988)
rip-off is no comedy, though. It has the ladies doing some fighting and a
couple trying to make things happen as they work to save their children. Neve
Campbell has been under the radar for a while, and seeing her back was enough
to keep me glued to the screen.
The plot starts with the introduction of our hero, Will (The Rock), a retired
military officer who left service after a failed raid that left him amputated,
having lost one of his legs. Now married with two kids, he works as a security
consultant.
The side plot
revolves around a skyscraper where Will and his family live while he assesses
the building’s security features to ensure they’re strong enough to deter any
catastrophe. The skyscraper belongs to Zhao Long Ji, who has faced challenges
during the construction of the world’s tallest skyscraper. His biggest
challenge comes from a terrorist extorting millions from him during the
building’s construction.
Long Ji is in possession of a memory card that he believes can bring down the
terrorist, as it tracks all the payments made to the terrorist and how they’ve
been laundered.
You can guess
what happens next: the terrorist learns about the memory card and decides to
kill Long Ji, destroy the card, and bring down the skyscraper. The problem is
that the building is fitted with all forms of security to prevent disasters,
and our hero Will is the only person with root access to the building.
The bad guy assembles a team to capture Will and use his access to get into the
building’s main core to fulfill their mission. Things don’t go as planned
because Will doesn’t come quietly, and his family also proves difficult to
capture and control.
Now, the movie
is filled with a lot of impossibilities. It’s kind of silly, and things just
seem to always work out in favor of our hero. That said, I enjoyed it, though I
understand why many won’t and why this movie probably shouldn’t have been made.
I can’t say with a good conscience that you should go see this movie, but if
you catch it on a streaming platform, take the time to see it.
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