The eye-catching promotional image for “Skyscraper”, the latest Dwayne Johnson movie, shows him gripping a skyscaper with a soaring building by only his left hand. His wedding ring is prominently featured in this image set alight by the weak blaze raging over him.

Just like Johnson’s movies, the “Fast and Furious” series gives us mindless fun filled with explosions, chases, cars, and family themes. The franchise does provide some level of sophistication to keep audiences engaged. This specific movie is more akin to mix up of “Die Hard” and “The Towering Inferno”, making it lightweight enough to ignore after watching while providing the much-needed diversion at the same time. It fills its purpose in putting us on edge which makes it… successful?

But writer director Rawson Marshall Thurber has attempted to construct the nails in one place while making you feel warm inside about bravery and resilience leaves unthought all those unnamed bodies shredded into bits gunfire rain disguised as automatic hails bursting frees.

In the name of “thrills” or perhaps character growth, countless lives are lost in this PG-13 production. The group of international crinimals taking over a hong kong high-rise that’s the tallest building in the world and three times the size of the Empire State Building are singularly bad. Their office annihiliation deaths that get cut away from from grabage cameras are bloodless for MPAA compliance, but feel rather pointless.

“Skyscraper” does provide fun in the form of dizzying action sequences packed with defying death stunts. These sequences stitch together through flimsy supports, such as lackluster storylines rescuing frantic pacing.

Before diving in, let’s rewind a decade. In Johnson’s movie, Will Sawyer is an ex-Marine and FBI agent who suffers a personal tragedy during a hostage situation he’s leading that goes south (yet another case of putting characters through relentless, absurd action). Because of the explosion, Will lost his leg below the knee and is now a security consultant. His new assignment takes him to Hong Kong where he needs to evaluate The Pearl’s safety as it is about to be opened for its trademark The Pearl W-/>”;
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While Will is trying his best to control the situation, he has absolutely no idea that his wife and kids are inside one of the residential units. As Witherspoon’s character tries controlling the mad men who have burnt down several floors of the building, flames rise increasingly higher alongside insanity and danger; climbing further and further as thick smoke pours out from what initially appears to be a thin orange line on 96th floor.”

Naturally, because it’s Johnson, he will go to the ends of the earth to save them, but every new obstacle presents an increasingly outlandish challenge. But what is novel about Johnson in this role is that he is not completely indestructible. He wears a prosthetic leg and the movie clever wituses it as an asset rather than a hinderance.

Sertain stand out pieces include being placed in the middle of firey madness thanks to the heurely overqualified Robert Elswit (Cinematographer for Paul Thomas Anderson) Wills vertical ascent of a 100 story crane culminates into a breathtaking leap across the night sky at which point he flies through The Pearl’s broken window. His use of duct tape is just as thrilling when ne buisnesses his A) Patch up B) Burning Hands edition hindered by of feet breed melt spider tape on exterior glass hands fortress tape.

(For people who experience vertigo or fear heights, this one probably isn’t an easy escape for summer.) One of the most fun aspects of “Skyscraper”—and this was also true of “Die Hard”—is how it seemingly involves us during the process of solving out the puzzle alongside the more skilled protagonist. (Although my kid did turn to me about three half’s into the screening with, ‘I struggle on how believable this is within a day choice.’)

“Skyscraper” offers Campbell a surprisingly impressive role; Sarah is no longer simply a damsel in distress but rather combat trained woman surgically adept at multitasking which includes parenting and warming up to butt kicking. (She comes in handy later due to speaking many Asian languages). Imagine her as the person tasked to redeem herself by saving not just her family but also whole building. That would be such a thrill.