Do you remember Dwayne Johnson from “Jumanji” earlier this year; he is back this time with an action, adventure movie called “Skyscraper”. If you have noticed the trend from Dwayne, he comes with a comedy movie early every almost every year with Kevin Hart and an action packed movie later in the year, he also featured in the “Fast and Furious” series last year, Dwayne is known for his built and strength, he always puts out a good show in his action movies. This movie was full of action, sky diving, jumping and running all through, it was really very exciting but for one issue, the action scenes were a lot and at a point became extremely unrealistic, and it kept me wondering if that was humanly possible, how could someone jump from a crane to a building with over 200 floors without considering the risk of falling down, anyway I guess those are the type of scenes we should expect in an action movie right?
The movie was directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and written by him also, he did feature a few lead actors which were Dwayne and his family members and the wealthy guy Chin Han who was referred to as “Zhao Long Ji” with his crew. They were also loads of actors who played little roles or said nothing much. The movie had a good production, cast and lovely scenes, the concept of the building was amazing and made the movie lovely to behold. They did have a short storyline but with loads of action.
So skyscraper started with a flash back telling us how Will Sawyer worked with his friend Ben as FBI Agents who took on terrorist cases. On one of their operations, something tragic happens where one of the terrorist triggered a bomb killing himself and his family. That day Will lost his leg and his friend was badly injured, this changed the cause of their lives and they had to resign. During his treatment in the hospital Will met his better half and they got married and had two lovely kids a boy and a girl (twins), they were adorable and he loved his family completely. Some years later Ben calls Will and proposes a fantastic business contract in Hong Kong where he had settled. This is when the movie started and action scenes kicked in.
Will Sawyer travels to Hong Kong with his wife and kids to enjoy a holiday, while he goes on to defend his pitch, on getting there he didn’t have to say much and he won the heart of the property owner, he totally loved him, his ideas and experience, he didn’t have to do much at all, immediately he was awarded the job and asked to resume immediately. Little did he know that his friend was working with a group of bad guys, who needed access into the building to get to a very important item? They were willing to do anything to get the rich guy ‘Zhao Long’ and the plan was to set the building on fire and get access to it. Will had to defeat his friend get out and find a way to get into the building to set his family free from getting burnt alive. He was determined to get in at any cost, he flew from a crane into the burning building and people kept watching from beneath the building with amazement the length a man will take to save his family. You would need to see the movie to see the rest of it.
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Noah Taylor, Roland Moller, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, Hannah Quinlivan
Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Ratings: PG 13 (for Comic Sci-Fri action violence)
Written by: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Runtime: 103mins
Studio: universal Pictures
To my verdict I would score Skyscraper 8/10. It was good, nice action scenes, production and storyline. They displayed the length a man would go to save his family and Dwayne did put at a good show as always. I did enjoy the movie except for the fact that some action scenes were too good to be true, we kept screaming “oh No” that’s absolutely not possible, they should sometimes try to make the action scenes as realistic as possible, so we could at least believe them. Besides that hitch it was a beautiful movie, for all the action adventure movie lovers, you are sure to enjoy this movie.
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Linda Ochugbua
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