Skyscraper

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber, Hannah Quinlivan

Rating: 7 out of 10, The usually explosive Rock was a seemingly perfect solution for the action starved in Skyscraper. This was a formulaic rip off of Die Hard without the needed edge or sly humor. This surprised me because Johnson is so good at this type role but he may be starting to take himself too seriously. He’s framed with starting a fire in the tallest building in the world that traps his family above the fire. The predictable demonstrations of the Rock’s upper body strength ensue as despicable bad guys pursue a laughably bad plan to destroy the building. Neve Campbell is a welcome addition as the competent wife and the Asian actors were particularly good. They couldn’t rescue this however as the Rock playing sensitive is not what we go to see a Rock movie for. There were a lot of acrophobic inducing stunts but this played more like a TV disaster movie versus a summer blockbuster. A rare miss for the Rock while playing in his strong suit.

MVP: Johnson is still an immense presence as Will Sawyer