It would also be a welcome boon to actors who use prosthetics. Let us grant: it would be a far more interesting entry into the action pantheon to have an actor with a prosthetic limb playing a character with one. She's bringing warmth but also competence, and the role she plays in the third act, while predictable, is appreciated. The stakes come primarily from the presence of Will's family, including Neve Campbell, whom I haven't seen much of lately (she's been spending some time on House Of Cards), but who's solid here as Tough Mom who plays a significant role in saving herself and her kids, even if she's firmly the second banana to the first Rock. The clever narrow escape, after all, will always be more exciting than just shooting your way out.
#The rock skyscraper movie
A good action movie doesn't really need a lot of killing if it has enough avoiding-being-killed. The action is what action can be when it's goofy and unfettered by reality: the running, the climbing, the jumping, the swinging, the hanging by one finger. There's one sequence that tips over into being gratuitously violent to the point where it was distracting, but for the most part, the film doesn't use killings of innocent people just to create tension. Skyscraper winds up somewhere in the middle. The most gruesome murder happens precisely so that the stakes can be raised, and the mercilessness of the thieves revealed, without 50 people being killed with machine guns.
It has an enormous body count, with so many innocent people mowed down that they become meaningless and fungible, perceptible only in groups, and that makes up far too much of the alleged "action." What makes Die Hard a great action movie is that the violence is specific in just about every case, and the killing of innocent people is limited. For example, one of the reasons the White-House-is-down movie Olympus Has Fallen is so bad (so, so bad) is that it's not an action movie - it's a slaughter movie. One of the things that's often forgotten in blockbusters is that there's a difference between an action movie and a slaughter movie. This is a movie where you want to be sitting next to the "AAnd I was glad. It is better with people who will determinedly applaud every time The Rock doesn't die. (You and this crowd will be grading physical realism on a steep curve.) It is better with people who can respond to a line meant to be inspiring and gritty with a hearty "Are you serious?", as the woman next to me did. This is a movie to see with a raucous crowd that quickly reaches a tacit agreement that laughing and talking back are both permitted, where you can make a loud "HA!" noise when something particularly offensive to the laws of physics happens. Should you decide to go on this journey, let me tell you precisely what I told the publicist at the screening after I saw it, in these words: It's extremely stupid, but a lot of fun. Which is not an unreasonable position to take.īut. Movie Reviews 'Central Intelligence' Places Kevin Hart Between The Rock And A Hard PlaceĪ side note: This will not be the right film for anyone who still cannot watch people trapped by fire on the upper floors of a tall building as part of a fun action movie. The bad guys are in the building too, and Will needs to rescue his family from the giant burning tower. Blah blah blah, evil machinations ensue, and it doesn't take long to reach our true beginning point: Will is away from the building when his family becomes trapped a few floors above a fire. Unfortunately, this trip was arranged by a friend of Will's played by Pablo Schreiber, and if you don't know that means trouble is a-comin', you haven't seen Pablo Schreiber in anything recently. Sawyer brings his family - wife Sarah (Neve Campbell) and twins Georgia (McKenna Roberts) and Henry (Noah Cottrell) - along so that they can be imperiled for story reasons. Owned by Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han), it's a record-breaking piece of architecture from what one supposes is the near-future Phallic Period, topped by a magical and mysterious sphere. Action Dad Will Sawyer (Johnson) is a security systems consultant who comes to Hong Kong to inspect a new skyscraper (GET IT?). The most important thing to know about the plot of this often delightful nonsense is that the movie has a plot, nominally speaking. If you think there is very little chance you will enjoy Skyscraper, you will not. Permit me this short review of Skyscraper, starring Dwayne Johnson, not currently billed as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson: If you think there is any chance you will enjoy Skyscraper, you will. Dwayne Johnson (sometimes known as Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) plays Will Sawyer in Skyscraper, a movie where The Rock fights a skyscraper.
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