A Potpourri of Vestiges Review
By Murtaza Ali Khan
Overall, Skyscraper makes
for a engaging action thriller that never really looses it grip on the viewer.
While the plot is rather clichéd the execution is superb. If anything, the
pacing could have been slightly better but at 102 minutes it doesn’t feel long.
Credit goes to the Rawson Marshall Thurber who has also written the film.
Thurber also succeeds in eliciting worthy performances from his actors. While
Johnson is solid as ever, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Byron Mann, and
Hannah Quinlivan offer good support. Also, the child actors playing Sawyer’s
daughter and son have performed reasonably well. Despite its aforementioned
weaknesses, Skyscraper has all the makings of a perfect Hollywood blockbuster. If
you like action thrillers then it will not disappoint you.
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By Murtaza Ali Khan
Featured in IMDb Critic Reviews
Skyscraper is the latest
film starring former WWE wrestler and Hollywood superstar Dwayne “The Rock”
Johnson. The film marks director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s second collaboration
with Johnson who previously worked with him on the 2016 action comedy Central
Intelligence.
In Skyscraper, Johnson plays a war veteran, Will Sawyer, who had had one of his legs amputated from the knee during an earlier operation. But his prosthetic leg allows him to lead a normal life. He now assesses security for skyscrapers. He has been assigned with the task of supervising security in the world’s largest skyscraper called “The Pearl” (3,500 feet and 225 storeys tall) constructed by an Asian businessman, Zhao Long Ji, in Hong Kong. When a criminal mastermind tries to bring the building down in a bid to blackmail the business magnate, Sawyer wife and his two kids get trapped in the middle of nowhere. If there is anyone capable of preventing the building from going down it is Sawyer. But will he succeed in overcoming the insurmountable odds and his own physical limitations?
In Skyscraper, Johnson plays a war veteran, Will Sawyer, who had had one of his legs amputated from the knee during an earlier operation. But his prosthetic leg allows him to lead a normal life. He now assesses security for skyscrapers. He has been assigned with the task of supervising security in the world’s largest skyscraper called “The Pearl” (3,500 feet and 225 storeys tall) constructed by an Asian businessman, Zhao Long Ji, in Hong Kong. When a criminal mastermind tries to bring the building down in a bid to blackmail the business magnate, Sawyer wife and his two kids get trapped in the middle of nowhere. If there is anyone capable of preventing the building from going down it is Sawyer. But will he succeed in overcoming the insurmountable odds and his own physical limitations?
Skyscraper has all the
making of an action thriller. While the plot may remind some of Die Hard, the
execution makes it quite refreshing. The film relies heavily on CGI and VFX but
that isn’t necessary a bad thing. In fact, here it adds a lot of value to the
film’s narrative. Usually in an action film it is easy to get carried away.
Since a lot of action is taking place the viewer can easily get lost if the
individual scenes lack clarity in execution and that’s precisely where
direction comes into picture. When it is done well it doesn’t really show but
when it is not one can easily tell, like in the case of some of the Transformer
films which tend to lose focus during their big action scenes, often leaving a
viewer disoriented. But that’s not the case with Skyscraper which ensures that
the key action moments are clearly defined. The viewer is always with the story
and never really feels left out.
Over the last decade, Dwayne Johnson has really evolved
into a bankable action star. In his hands, the legacy of the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger
and Sylvester Stallone looks quite safe. At 46, he finds himself at the top of
his game. And, perhaps, Skyscraper is his best work yet. Not only does he seem
quite natural in the action scenes he is also able to bring credibility to the
fact that he is actually playing a man with an amputated leg. Also, he is reasonably
good in the emotional scenes. He is probably not as gifted a performer as his
fellow wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista but he certainly knows what it takes
to win over a film-going audience.
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| Neve Campbell in Skyscraper |
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| Neve Campbell and Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper |
Rating: 7/10
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Skyscraper - Official Trailer (YouTube)
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