It’s important to realize that Skyscraper does some pretty radical things it’s just as necessary to understand that, despite its vision for change, it still prioritizes formula first. Yet his action movies tend to buck conventions without having the know-how to truly transcend them, and the stale style of them all only diminishes the power of the careful choices made along the way. It’s important to see Johnson spearheading films like this one, so routinely typecast with a standard white male as the star. I applaud that Will’s wife Sarah ( Neve Campbell) is a badass in her own right. Skyscraper is the kind of movie that makes me question its leading man’s intentions. Skyscraper is more of a concept than it is a coherent and developed story, and because the movie aims to be larger than life, it’s always unknowable even when it’s confined to secure locations. Almost thirty minutes are devoted entirely to setup action payoffs that take up a third of the time. Zhao Long Ji ( Chin Han), the mastermind behind the literal monstrosity gets hunted down by hired hands. There’s exorbitant amounts of money involved and some shady business deals on the side. Bigger than Burj Khalifa and dwarfing the Shanghai Tower, “The Pearl” is a man-made Tower of Babel, beautifully showcasing the audacity of man’s engineering ingenuity as well as the pride we get from reaching for the heavens. And yet it has an abundance of enough heart to counterbalance and stomach all of its sheer idiocy.įormer FBI operative and war vet Will Sawyer ( Dwayne Johnson) somehow gets the contract to oversee the security of the world’s tallest building. That’s not meant to slight these excellent late 80’s-90’s era inspirations that Skyscraper directly pulls material from – and honestly never fully lives up to – but is more to justify the thought behind the story’s attempted scope. The Bad Boys were far too cool to calmly admit how they felt. None of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s characters would have had the time to give such softness a second thought. You wouldn’t find it in The Towering Inferno, nor would you hear Bruce Willis’ Die Hard living John McClane saying this let alone thinking it. The quote directly above, said with great confidence by the planet’s biggest action star, is what sets Skyscraper mildly apart from the many movies which influenced its entire being.
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