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Skyscrapers
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Ronald Moller
Rating 2.5 / 5
Difficult to not like Dwayne Johnson. He breathes charisma, has a great sense of comic timing and chooses characters that suit him … that's why I have not liked his recent movies at all, including Baywatch and the least effective Rampage . However, you can not quite shake the notion although since Central Intelligence (also by the director of this movie), entertainment has plummeted, slowly but steadily. Rather revealing, this also seems to coincide with a gradual reduction of focus on overall humor. This serious reaches a new, uh, high in Skyscraper.
At the tower of hell, a skyscraper is on fire. Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) – an expert in the FBI's hostage rescue missions – is not in the building on fire, but his wife and two children are. Everything is happening in Hong Kong, just for the lucrative Chinese market to have something to do. Will must also overcome his disability by attempting this seemingly suicidal rescue mission. Chances are stacked, but that 's the way Rock likes it.
Rather visible for lack of total initiative, the Hong Kong police in this film is reduced to the spectators. The two largest cops watch Dwayne's show from afar, with occasional expression of shock or relief. At one point, Will travels as far as possible in a phone tower at the sight of the eye and makes a spectacular leap into the skyscraper. The cops look at each other, as if they were finally waking up to what was going on. These cops are worse than our movies. At least our guys have the excuse to get up late.
The problem in Skyscraper is not only that it is almost entirely devoid of humor. He is plagued by a serious lack of any novelty. It feels like a room of echo of familiar action pieces. Will is abseiling, and you know exactly when he's going to get fired. He's holding a bridge with his bare arms, and you know exactly when his wife is going to slip. These shocks seem superficial, and this is nowhere more evident than in the fiery chaos that results in the ostracization of Will's family. His wife and children are together, but the director has decided that they should all be isolated to increase the threat. The & # 39; bridge & # 39; they are all in caves, with Will's wife on one side and the two children on the other. And almost instantly, as summoned, a huge burning block falls squarely between the two children, isolating the two. This is the kind of simplistic orchestration that deprives Skyscraper of his thrills.
I loved that Will's wife was not just a damsel in distress. She is waiting to be saved, of course, but is not entirely without initiative. There are some echoes that I suspect have seemed better in writing than in the movie. In one case, Will is again forced by the circumstances to negotiate a situation similar to the one that caused his disability. In the other, an apparently bbad scene about the repair of his phone by Will 's wife is complete. While the intention of writing these ideas is understandable, they feel fabricated. It's the same problem with the scene in which Will is saved by his prosthetic leg. Given that his disability is barely taken into account in the story, it just seems to be an artificial way of representing empowerment.
In addition, I found it difficult to see how fast the characters evolve. After escaping the crushing of burning pillars and managed to get out of gaping crevices, Sawyer's wife is finally saved – and in a Dwayne Johnson movie, it's not a spoiler. She hugged him with relief, and barely a second later she said, "You really should take a bath." That's the kind of comic interjection that does not match at all with the tone dark of the film. It's as if someone eventually realized that perhaps they should have had more fun with the material.
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