Director Rawson Marshall Thurber
Starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han
Rated M
Score 5/6

Skyscraper released in stores on Wednesday 31 October on DVD & Blu-Ray

A security expert must infiltrate a burning skyscraper, 225 stories above ground, when his family are trapped inside by criminals.

I’ve mentioned this fact about myself in the past, but for those of you who might not know or remember I use a wheelchair because of a spinal cord injury. Now I know I’m late to the party on this and I might not be able to wade to far into the ‘Dwayne Johnson is portraying an amputee when he is not an amputee’ debate. I will say this, seeing somebody with your disability portrayed on screen is always something cool to see and it usually outweighs if the given actor is able-bodied. Especially if the actor is Dwayne Johnson!!

Skyscraper is the kind of movie that I probably should have watched when it was still at the cinema, because it needs a big screen to convey the scale of the situation and epic in size ‘the pearl’ is. The larger screen is also need Now, I’m not that familiar with Rawson Marshall Thurber but it turns out that I have come across his work before and with Skyscraper has delivered something that comes across as a Die Hard/The Towering Inferno hybrid and considering this was filmed in Hong Kong there is also what can be taken as an homage to Bruce Lee thrown in for good measure.
Will Sawyer is a character you wouldn’t readily associate with Dwayne Johnson but it was good to see him in a role that cast him in a different light. The last time I saw Neve Campbell was probably in the last of the Scream movies. Skyscraper certainly is a movie that will change my opinion of her as an actress. Roland Møller gave Kores Botha a vibe that would make a mother think twice and it seems that Noah Taylor might be able to give Ben Mendelsohn a run for his money as a creepy villain.