fun, and it kept my wife, son, and myself on the edge of our seats from about 10 minutes in until the end. What's wrong with that? NOTHING!!!! Sometimes it's just fun to watch a movie and root for the good guys and be against the bad guys. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it. Don't read all the bad reviews and be dissuaded. Grab some popcorn, something cold to drink, and enjoy it for what it is, a fun action thriller.

Johnson after a hostage situation gone wrong. That leaves him being an amputee victim and meeting a military medic Sarah Neve Campbell who becomes his wife. 10 years later, Will works for a security assessment company for the tallest skyscraper on the planet known as "the pearl." His family is the first to live in the tallest structure. When a group of bad guys infiltrate the building. Causing an explosion that will take over the building. Will is going to stop at nothing to get back into the building to save his family. There is more to the plot. Like a plot device were the bad guys are after something from the building's owner. And there is a predictable twist with good guys being bad. It is easy to see coming just cause they act shady to begin with. The film waste no time in getting the action started. There is plenty of exciting action sequences. And some of those sequences has no laws of physics in play. Definitely, a blockbuster movie were you have to leave logic and brains outside the theatre. It is exciting and fun. For the action genre enthusiast, this is a film for you. Dwayne Johnson plays a former amputee agent. He does take a beating from the bad guys. But gets back up and has one hell of a punch. He climbs a crane with the chinese law enforcement chasing him. He jumps off the crane to the building. He fights some more. He does some death defying climbing besides the building and making some leaps that are a second away from falling. Dwayne Johnson delivers with the role. Playing a loving father and will stop at nothing to save his family. He is a great action movie star. Neve Campbell is good too. It is nice to see her back on screen can not remember seeing her in any other movie besides the Scream movies . Roland Moller was good as the villain. Not sure if he ever plays the good guy in any other movie. Chin Han was good too as the pearl owner. The visual effects are top notch awesome. Breathtaking in some scenes when Dwayne Johnson is on the ledge or close to falling. Director/writer Rawson Marshall Thurber did great delivering an action packed, loud, and exciting film. Which is off from his genre of choice. When he does comedic films like Dodgeball, Were the Millers, or the lackluster Central Intelligence. Overall, Skyscraper is an awesome great film. Dwayne Johnson and the cast delivers. The action is fast paced and does not stop with the thrills until it finishes. And the visual effects are intense. It is trying to be its own film with the similarities of older action movies like Die Hard or The Towering Inferno.

Well, different heroes for different times, I guess, but still, I missed the old school way. The strong family guy saving his family from the bad guys... there's just nothing like it. And guess what? That's exactly what this movie is.And I'm not even surprised that it was produced by Dwayne Johnson and has him playing the leading role. There's something old school about the good ol' Rock and I always felt like he's keeping the old school spirit alive on the big screen. And now he did just that - his own version of Die Hard. With baddies, family in trouble and muscular guy to save the day. I can't even add anything to it. It's just that - an old school action movie. Lack of originality? Sure, can't argue with that. There's nothing original here. Well, the skyscraper itself looks great, the movie feels really exciting in modern 3D and sure, Dwayne Johnson's character has only one leg, which works as a nice modern touch and will make this movie even better for certain kind of viewers, since it can really give them a lot of inspiration, but aside from that there's nothing really new here. You saw Die Hard, you can say that you've seen this movie too. But let's not forget two things. First of all, we live in times when they just don't make this kind of movies anymore. And second - such movies don't even need to be original. They need to be exciting and inspiring. And Skyscraper have all of it. It's very enjoyable and can give you and your family a lot of good mood. Which means that it did its work perfectly. Maybe it's not one of those "must see" movies, but if you missed this kind of movies as much as I did, I'd say don't miss it. That awesome warm feeling that old action movies had... this one sure has it.

If you don't enjoy non-stop action and suspense, then this film isn't for you.