Skyscraper Movie Download

7 / 10

Turn off your brain and enjoy
SKYSCRAPER is another big-bucks Hollywood action flick, full of CGI effects work and fiery explosions. It was shot in Hong Kong with a Chinese supporting cast and a few old-timers showing up including SCREAM’s Neve Campbell and villain regular Noah Taylor. The plot is literally DIE HARD meets THE TOWERING INFERNO, and given that those are two of my very favourite movies, I was eager to see this.

In the end, it turns out to be just as entertaining as I’d hoped for. Nowhere near the quality of the two films it rips off, of course, but as good as it could be in the circumstances. The Rock is an intensely likeable screen presence and his single-legged schtick is handled well. The various high-rise stunts are preposterous but surprisingly suspenseful in places. The lead villain is entertainingly imposing and the running time flies past with one twist and set-piece after another. As usual, things get a bit too CGI-dominated at the climax, with the best fight scene the early one in the apartment, but generally this is a perfect slice of turn-off-your-brain style fun.Read More