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Skyscraper review – The Rock towers over an inferno of cliches


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Skyscraper review – The Rock towers over an inferno of cliches

By Benjamin Lee

 

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Dwayne Johnson in Skyscraper, a rare film with a $100m-plus budget that isn’t a sequel or a remake. Photograph: Kimberley French/Universal Pictures

 

When the first footage from Skyscraper was launched earlier this year, most online conversation revolved around the staggering incredulity of the trailer’s money shot: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson making an Ethan Hunt-esque leap from a crane into the broken window of a building.

 

Everyone from math professors to meme makers critiqued the physics, and even Johnson snappily responded on Twitter.

 

But for me, the most unlikely element was the inclusion of Johnson himself.

 

How on earth does the wrestler-turned-actor find the time to headline so many damn movies? Does he sleep? Has he undergone a Multiplicity-like experimental cloning procedure?

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/10/skyscraper-review-the-rock-towers-over-an-inferno-of-cliches

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Isn't this just Die Hard plus The Towering Inferno meets The Rock? 

Sad Hollywood is out of ideas!  Wait, wait, wait.  13 kids trapped in a cave in Thailand!!!! Hallelujah!!!!!!  Saved.

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