Skyscraper Film Review

Finished watching Skyscraper, directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Dwayne Johnson, Chin Han, Pablo Schreiber, Roland Møller, Neve Campbell, McKenna Roberts and Noah Cottrell. The film opens with a hostage situation where Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) and his team are trying to defuse the situation when a bomb goes of leading to Will being severely injured and having his leg amputated. Ten years later Will is now working as a security consultant for the largest building in the world The Pearl. When he meets with the buildings owner Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han) to present his assessment of the building before heading to a site on the other side of Hong Knog, that oversees the security of the building with his friend and former coworker Ben (Pablo Schreiber) where Will gets his bag stolen believing that it contains a tablet that Zhao gave him that controls the building. After being patched up, a group of armed gunmen start coming after Will to get the tablet that he moved to his jacket pocket. After taking the tablet a group lead by Kores Botha (Roland Møller) begin to set the Pearl on fire beginning with a single floor and with the use of the tablet are able to disable the buildings safety procedures. When Will sees the building ablaze he heads straight for it in hopes to find his wife Sarah (Neve Campbell) and their two kids Georgia (McKenna Roberts) and Henry (Noah Cottrell), only to discover that they are stuck in the building and are unable to escape leading to Will to try and find a way into the building in the hopes to rescue them. Overall this was a great film as it does an amazing job in building an edge of the seat level of suspense that stays throughout the film the second the action begins when the Pearl is set ablaze with Will's family trapped in the building. The action set pieces throughout the film are great thanks to the ways they have been planned out along with the addition of some very well choreographed fist fights especially the one between Will and Ben early one in the film. There are some really good moments within the focusing on Will's family especially his wife Sarah, who becomes a second protagonist in parts of the film as she has her own story within the film the ends up becoming just as a main factor in the film's conclusion. 8/10.