Neve Campbell is the pleasant surprise in this film and in interviews she stated the script is what drew her too it. And as the flames rise higher and higher from what began as a thin, orange line on the 96th floor, the danger and the insanity climb with them. (They shouldn’t even have bothered explaining it, the item in question is so disproportionately insignificant compared to the mayhem it causes.) But when they torch the joint, they don’t realize that Will’s wife and kids are still inside one of the residential units. A team of villains, led by the menacing Kores Botha (Roland Moller), has broken in with highly flammable chemicals in order to steal the most McGuffiny of McGuffins. “Skyscraper” kicks into gear pretty quickly and remains relentless. His family lives in the higher floors (floor 110 I believe) and they are caught in the high rise skyscraper when the criminals start the fire, It is up to Johnson to save them, and let the guns, bullets, and fire start flying.ĭirector Rawson Marshall Thurber isn’t terribly interested in steadily building tension. This time the film is a cross between Die Hard and Inferno, as a high rise apartment building that Johnson is consulting too is set on fire by a nefarious group of bandits who want to get the owner of the building who has dirt on their bosses, so he needs to be eliminated.Ĭall in Johnson's Will Sawyer is a security consultant who lost his leg as a solider. This is a typical action film from Dwayne Johnson but with atypical actress Neve Campbell, who has not been a major player in a theater film in quite some time.
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