Skyscraper

    Skyscraper
    2018

    Synopsis

    Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

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    Cast

    • Dwayne JohnsonWill Sawyer
    • Neve CampbellSarah Sawyer
    • Chin HanZhao Long Ji
    • Roland MøllerKores Botha
    • Noah TaylorMr. Pierce
    • Byron MannInspector Wu
    • Pablo SchreiberBen
    • McKenna RobertsGeorgia Sawyer
    • Noah CottrellHenry Sawyer
    • Hannah QuinlivanXia

    Recommendations

    • 88

      TheWrap

      Skyscraper doesn’t change the action-movie game the way “Die Hard” did, but it’s a solidly entertaining summer diversion best enjoyed on the biggest theater — or even better, drive-in — screen you can find. And if you’re afraid of heights, make sure there’s an armrest — or even better, an arm — that you can grab.
    • 81

      IGN

      Living up to the legacy of Die Hard is a tall order, and Skyscraper never reaches those heights. But it's a gigantic and silly blockbuster matinee of a movie, with likable performances, absurd action sequences, and a heck of a lot of duct tape.
    • 70

      Variety

      On the scale that ranges from implausibly entertaining to entertainingly implausible, Skyscraper comfortably falls toward the compulsively over-the-top end, generating thrills by straining credibility at every turn, relying on Johnson’s invaluable ability to engage the audience while defying physics, common sense, and the sheer limits of human stamina.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      This is stupid but it’s also mostly entertaining, thanks to Johnson and a plot that moves fast enough to retain our attention yet without enough, ahem, the originality to ensure it lingers in our minds once the fire has been extinguished.
    • 60

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Rawson Marshall Thurber's Skyscraper is one of the most idiotic action movies to come down the pike in some time. It's also a lot of fun if you're willing to go with it, and getting viewers to go with things is one of several fronts on which The Rock routinely earns the money he gets paid.
    • 50

      Screen Daily

      Anyone expecting a shred of originality from this Dwayne Johnson vehicle will be disappointed, but writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber tries his best to compensate by amping up the over-the-top spectacle, hoping sheer gusto will keep viewers from minding his film’s shaky foundation.
    • 42

      Entertainment Weekly

      No one churns out big-budget action mediocrity these days as regularly as Dwayne Johnson. So now, just three months after his giant gorilla-a-go-go Rampage, we have Skyscraper — a film that suggests what would happen if you took The Towering Inferno and Die Hard and stripped them of the qualities that made both work.
    • 42

      IndieWire

      Skyscraper plays out like a metaphor for diminishing returns — Johnson keeps climbing, higher and higher, until there’s nowhere left to go but down.