Skyscraper Film Review – Dwayne Battles the Blazing Tower

Remember the last time you saw a movie that you instantly forgot? Well, Skyscraper is one of those movies. The film affords Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson opportunity to flex his muscles although not much of his acting abilities come to the fore.

Skyscraper Film Review

With the tallest building up in flames, Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson), a former FBI agent, has to get his family out before it is too late. To add to Will’s woes, he is also wrongly implicated to be behind the fire.

There isn’t anything here that you haven’t seen before, and in most likelihood presented in a much more exciting manner. Watching the hero try and rescue his family from the burning tower will make your heart skip a beat now and then, but that’s as far as the movie goes.

For Skyscraper, the highlights are the intriguing structure at the focus of it all and to some extent, Dwayne Johnson showing off his brawn. Even the tallest building in the world with all its features isn’t immune to be taken apart by the most nondescript of adversaries of its maker. If that is an irony, it is just the beginning of a string of perplexing scenarios that feel so artificial that it is hard to disregard them.

The story begins with Will Sawyer involved in an operation that doesn’t go according to plan, and soon afterward the story cuts to the present. Now, he is in charge of assessing the security of the most iconic building on the planet. Nearly the entire movie is structured around Dwayne’s character with scope for any other meaningful part going out of the window. Even his main foe isn’t so much of a menace as is the ominous blaze that has his family hanging to their lives.

Clumsily written characters are the order of the day, and what is probably most mind-numbing is the manner in which the cops respond to the crisis. There are no evacuation efforts undertaken throughout the movie other than Will trying to salvage his loved ones, which is something unfathomable. With abundant clichés and failing to draw much intrigue, Skyscraper is merely another run-of-the-mill movie.

Dwayne fans will likely enjoy seeing him battle against time to save his loved ones and clear his name in the process. Other than that, most filmgoers will come out of the theaters thinking about better ways they might have spent their time.