Skyscraper
Release Date: 12th July 2018 - Australia
Production Companies
Legendary Entertainment
Flynn Picture Company
Seven Bucks Productions
Distribution
Universal Pictures Australia
Genre: Action
Rating: M
Runtime: 102 minutes
Budget: $125,000,000
Box Office Gross: $257,802,100 (Worldwide - figure subject to change)
Plot Summary
Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer has the job of assessing the safety and security of The Pearl - one of the world’s tallest buildings.
While on assignment in China, Sawyer is invited to stay at The Pearl, a 240-floor luxurious skyscraper, along with his wife and children. He attends a meeting to give his findings on the safety of The Pearl, a fire starts on the 96th floor, trapping his family. When Sawyer goes to save them, he’s captured and the lives of his wife and kids are threatened. Sawyer must free himself, find out why this is happening and figure out how to rescue his loved ones.
Cast
Dwayne Johnson - Will Sawyer
Neve Campbell - Sarah Sawyer
McKenna Roberts - Georgia Sawyer
Noah Cottrell - Harry Sawyer
Chin Han - Zhao Long Ji
Noah Taylor - Mr. Pierce
Roland Møller - Kores Botha
Bryon Mann - Inspector Wu
Pablo Schreiber - Ben
Hannah Quinlivan - Xia
Kevin Rankin - Ray
Adrian Holmes - Ajana Okeke
Tzi Ma - Fire Chief Sheng
Crew
Writer/Director - Rawson Marshall Thurber
Executive Producers - Dany Garcia, Eric Hedayat, Wendy Jacobson and Eric McLeod
Producers - Beau Flynn, Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson and Mary Parent
Co-Producer/First Assistant Director - James Bitonti
Co-Producer/Post-Production Supervisor - Petra Holtof
Production Designer - Jim Bissell
Costume Designers - Ann Foley and Luca Mosca
Director of Photography - Robert Elswit
Fight/Stunt Coordinator - Allan Poppleton
Stunt Coordinator - Robert Alonzo
Special Effects Supervisors - Dan Cervin and Joel Whist
Film Editors - Julian Clarke and Michael L. Sale
Music - Steve Jablonsky
Review
Throughout his career, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has played a number of heroes and now the former wrestler/well-known actor gets to be the new John McClane in this new fully action-packed movie, SKYSCRAPER, so-named due to its setting. However, viewers would find SKYSCRAPER to be too familiar; resembling
other movies like DIE HARD (click here) and THE TOWERING INFERNO. SKYSCRAPER appears to have copied off elements from these two films making the plot look very predictable and unoriginal by today’s standards. SKYSCRAPER does contain scenes which are remotely intense and provide an adrenaline rush; defying all logic that it would be possible for the action to take place in a fictional skyscraper that would have been taller than the actual Burj Khalifa building in Saudi Arabia.
Despite SKYSCRAPER’s predictable aspects, Johnson has never been as good in his wonderful performance. Even Bruce Willis himself would be pleased that Johnson - as Willis’ would-be successor - is doing the action-hero role very differently in the DIE HARD series, in his younger years. Neve Campbell is a remarkable actress in doing her part as a survivor and she did it in her very own way.
Good but at-times ludicrous, SKYSCRAPER may not be as exciting and thrilling as moviegoers have been anticipated. It offers pure escapism for everyone who is living in a dull life and has yet to experience the movie that is currently showing on the big screen. If you have not seen DIE HARD and THE TOWERING INFERNO, then this movie is for you. If you did watched these two films, you would surely find it that it is okay, but nothing new.
Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie
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