Skyscraper is a 2018 American action film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan. The story follows a former FBI agent who must rescue his family from a newly built skyscraper, the tallest in the world, after it is taken over by criminals and set on fire. The first non-comedy of Thurber's career, it also marks his second collaboration with Johnson, following Central Intelligence.
Filming began in September 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The film was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on July 13, 2018, in 2D and Real D 3D, and has grossed over $293 million worldwide against its production budget of around $125 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Johnson's performance and the film's suspenseful scenes, but criticized the script as clichéd and too similar to The Towering Inferno and Die Hard.
Some movies rely on "suspended disbelief" to succeed with the viewing audience. SKYSCRAPER is 1 of those movies, for reasons exhaustively documented in other reviews.
If you can just enjoy a movie for the action and thrills, without trying to pick apart the plot and premises, then this movie is an "edge of your seat" thriller! I thought Dwayne Johnson's performance was solid, doing an excellent job of carrying the movie.
I've lost track of how many action and sci-fi movies I've dozed off to, but SKYSCRAPER kept me involved the whole way through, and when SHTF I was on the edge of my seat 99% of the time after that. DEFINITELY adding this to my video collection.
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