‘Skyscraper’ review: How to make Hollywood blockbuster 101.
Skyscraper is the quintessential big-budget film that defies physics and sense
Several thousand feet above the ground, a man runs off an adjacent tower crane, hurtling through the air and crashes into a neighbouring high-rise. Said man uses duct tape as suction cups to scale that same building.
He also fights off armed cops while unarmed, escapes a high speed chase and manages to enter a burning building to save his family.
These are merely a few of the incredible and unbelievable things Skyscraper’s protagonist Will Sawyer (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’) pulls off in his latest film.
These are merely a few of the incredible and unbelievable things Skyscraper’s protagonist Will Sawyer (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’) pulls off in his latest film.
Oh, and did I mention he’s physically disabled, losing a leg during a mission gone awry? Yes, he conveniently limps his way during some instances and manages to hobble just fine when he needs to, say climb that tower crane more than a thousand feet in the air and race on a thin surface to make that jump.
As is obvious, Skyscraper’s premise is pretty stretched. Plus, a suspension of disbelief is imperative to avoid sniggering at director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s audacious stunts. But in the end, that inevitable, pesky gasp will creep in when Sawyer’s hand slips on a railing and he’s dangling a thousand feet in the air.
This film is a Hollywood blockbuster 101: atrocious stunts plus a sappy plot about loving your family. Imagine a Karan Johar film with mind-altering action and thrills.
Sawyer is an ex-FBI agent who has been entrusted to oversee the security of the highest tower ever made which happens to be in Hong Kong. But before that building can open its doors to residential inhabitants, unforeseen circumstances make Sawyer a hunted man by the police.
Sawyer is an ex-FBI agent who has been entrusted to oversee the security of the highest tower ever made which happens to be in Hong Kong. But before that building can open its doors to residential inhabitants, unforeseen circumstances make Sawyer a hunted man by the police.
Simultaneously, his family is at risk when the structure is engulfed in uncontrollable flames.
We know he won’t fall and well, he also knows he won’t fall. A happy ending is guaranteed. But Skyscraper does make for the equivalent of a Bollywood masala film where you leave the logic tightly locked away but also wheeze that nervous breath when the indestructible hero stumbles.
finally go home with a sense of closure because after all, nothing you didn’t expect could possibly happen.
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