Review of Skyscraper (2018) by Wayne K — 20 Jul 2018

Like a lot of modern architecture, the film has a bundled tube-like structural system, its several components tied together to make each stronger, and allowing the building to stretch taller. In a sense, then, the Rock-who is really cookin' something special with the heat in this one-doesn't just climb one tower, but many: He is forced to scale the hostile takeover plot from "Die Hard," he has to make his way up the disaster conceit of "The Towering Inferno," he must walk the death-defying heights of "Man on Wire," he clambers through the kaleidoscopic illusion from the end of "The Lady from Shanghai" (not of the "tower" genre, but a towering movie nonetheless)-throw in some "Tower of Babel" mythology at the start, and you've got yourself one epic genre film.

Sure, the whole thing is utterly ridiculous, but the film is aware of that and approaches its absurd reaches with a pathos that rises to the perfect heights of campiness.