Possibly the best moment comes in the middle when, after finally being reunited, Thurber finds a way to separate each family member in to a different part of a burning room, leaving Will to find a way to save each one. Regardless, just because we know the characters will probably survive doesn’t make it any less fun to watch the ways the film puts them in danger. We know this movie wouldn’t be mean enough to kill one of the children and while one of the parents could be expendable, it would put a bit of a damper on what’s otherwise light summer fare. Unfortunately, by basically restricting the people we care about to the four members of the Sawyer family, Thurber greatly limits the potential for tension. A good disaster movie should be a little cruel. Thurber’s biggest strength, though, is how sadistic he makes the action. ![]() It’s frankly refreshing to see an actress Campbell’s age in the role and writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber is smart to make Sarah more than just a damsel in distress. And when the police stop speaking English while they discuss whether she might be in on the bad guys’ plot, she not only understands what they’re saying, but figures out the plot for them. When a bad guy pulls a gun on her, she disarms him. ![]() When the fire starts, she preps the kids to avoid smoke inhalation. Sarah is the Navy surgeon who operated on Sawyer after the accident that opens the film, so she’s calm under pressure. Johnson’s love interests are usually much younger, so it’s refreshing to see him paired with not just a woman his own age but one who seems equally capable in a tough situation. Neve Campbell, who plays his wife Sarah, is almost equally badass. It also helps that Johnson isn’t the only hero here. ![]() Like Die Hard’s John McClane before him, Sawyer is only building jumping for his family and Johnson gives the character a desperation and vulnerability that makes even the most insane stunts feel somewhat grounded in reality. But what keeps the character grounded is his motivations. We’ve all seen the moment in the trailer when Johnson jumps from a crane to one of the building’s floors a hundred stories up. The first thing we see him do is lose a leg in a mission gone wrong, so he’s not invincible, but he’s still superhuman. While many of his characters have been badass for the sake of being badass, Sawyer is a just regular guy. However, despite the smaller scale, Skyscraper is a near-perfect summer action flick.ĭwayne Johnson has made a career of playing heroes, but Skyscraper feels like a new approach. Rather than save a whole banquet room full of people, Sawyer is just trying to save his family from the burning building and the group of gangsters who started the fire. Here, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson takes over hero duties as William Sawyer, ex-FBI agent and current building security expert. Though this version’s building is almost comically huge, the cast is much smaller. Now, in 2018, Legendary Entertainment brings us Skyscraper. With a star-studded cast that included Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Steve McQueen and Fred Astaire, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox made the disaster movie to end all disaster movies. ![]() In 1975, it took two studios to make The Towering Inferno.
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