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Even with a prosthetic leg, Dwayne Johnson stands tall. This is pure digital mayhem and it's quite enjoyable too!
Skyscraper movie poster. Pic Courtesy/Skyscraper Official Twitter account
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In one of it's numerous gravity-defying illusions, the film has the hulking one time WWF wrestler-turned-actor hanging from a sidebar of the 200th floor (possibly. I actually lost count of that) of the soaring building by only his left hand while in the background, illuminated by the deadly blaze that's raging all around him is the mammoth tower that stands taller than any other structure around. You know the laws of physics state it as an impossibility but yet you want to believe he did it.
Writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber has Johnson attempting many more such impossibilities before the rescue is completed successfully. The good thing here is that he gets us empathising with Will and his connectedness with his family before he lets loose on the fantastic visual FX. While bravery and resilience get their due, loss of lives becomes collateral damage and conscienceless. But then that's the villain Kores Botha's (Roland Møller) work. And we don't quite get what his reasons for evil are.
There's guilty pleasure to be had in the dizzying death-defying acrobatics on display here even though the connectedness in between the action is quite problematic. Each new obstacle coming his way presents an incrementally greater challenge and Johnson is more than equal to the task. From his recent filmography and his history with the WWF we have come to believe in his invincibility. Even with a prosthetic leg, Johnson stands tall. This is pure digital mayhem and its quite enjoyable too!
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