Skyscraper – Film #55

Skyscraper or Shite-scraper?

They don’t make them like they used to….until now!

Dwayne Johnson is back with another absolute blockbuster. Arguably the hardest working man in movies at the moment, Johnson is firing out movie after movie that are just hitting all the right notes. Jumanji was surprisingly decent, Rampage was a romp, and here he is with a film which is straight out of the 80’s and 90’s golden age of cheesy action flicks.

Skyscraper is a simple storyline…someone has built a massive skyscraper, Dwayne Johnson is an ex military man with one leg following an incident (something which isn’t dwelled on) and his family are living inside the residential section of the super structure whilst he assesses it. It passes the asssessment, then terrorists take over and set the state-of-the-art building on fire, disabling all the fire safety measures, and framing Johnson in the meantime.

But with Johnson’s family, including wife Neve Campbell (who hasn’t aged a day since I first saw her in Scream), are trapped inside the building and Johnson has to get inside to save them

Cue death-defying leaps of faith, tense shuffles over small planks over raging fires, an ingenious way to scale a building, some pretty naughty bad guys and plenty of foreshadowing thrown into the mix.

I’m saying this now…Skyscraper is great.

I saw it in IMAX 3D and it really brought it to life…especially the moments where they showed the height perspectives etc.

Stunning special effects, fairly average story, but executes really well.

It’s dumb, it’s fun and it’s 2hrs of great cinema. This is what the big screen was made for.

4.5/5

Current movie list…trending at 98 movies for the year…complete with links to all the reviews where I did them either on YouTube or as a Blog Post here on my blog :

 

02/01/2018	1	Three Billboards…
07/01/2018	2	My Little Pony
09/01/2018	3	Downsizing
14/01/2018	4	Coco
15/01/2018	5	The Commuter
27/01/2018	6	Maze Runner : Death Cure
31/01/2018	7	The Shape Of Water
03/02/2018	8	Early Man
05/02/2018	9	Winchester
06/02/2018	10	I, Tonya
13/02/2018	11	Black Panther
13/02/2018	12	The Mercy
23/02/2018	13	The Greatest Showman : Singalong
26/02/2018	14	Game Night
02/03/2018	15	The Greatest Showman
09/03/2018	16	Red Sparrow
13/03/2018	17	Love, Simon
16/03/2018	18	Walk Like A Panther
17/03/2018	19	Peter Rabbit
22/03/2018	20	Tomb Raider
25/03/2018	21	Blockers
26/03/2018	22	Isle Of Dogs
27/03/2018	23	Unsane
29/03/2018	24	Ready Player One
03/04/2018	25	A Quiet Place
11/04/2018	26	Duck Duck Goose
12/04/2018	27	Thoroughbreds
12/04/2018	28	Rampage
12/04/2018	29	Death Wish
12/04/2018	30	Pacific Rim: Uprising
14/04/2018	31	Truth Or Dare
14/04/2018	32	Ghost Stories
26/04/2018	33	Infinity War
01/05/2018	34	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
04/05/2018	35	The Strangers: Prey At Night
05/05/2018	36	Tully
09/05/2018	37	I Feel Pretty
12/05/2018	38	Sherlock Gnomes
13/05/2018	39	Life Of The Party
14/05/2018	40	Book Club
15/05/2018	41	Deadpool 2
17/05/2018	42	Breaking In
28/05/2018	43	Show Dogs
29/05/2018	44	Solo: A Star Wars Story
06/06/2018	45	Jurassic World 2
08/06/2018	46	Kaala
16/06/2018	47	Hereditary
20/06/2018	48	Incredibles 2
22/06/2018	49	Ocean’s 8
05/07/2018	50	The First Purge
06/07/2018	51	Tag
10/07/2018	52	Hotel Artemis
15/07/2018	53	Secret Of Marrowbone
16/07/2018	54	Soorma
17/07/2018	55	Skyscraper