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I am now watching The Rock in SKYSCRAPER because after being sick as a dog for two days this is the limit of my intellectual capacity
I love how "blatantly obvious Asian cofinancing" is basically a genre now
The Rock's kids are going to a panda feeding

do pandas die horribly in this movie because if so I love it already
The Rock is going to be betrayed and Mr. Co-Financing has a holodeck
A dire plot is in motion and there is a tasty fight!
The bad guys are setting the superskyscraper on fire where the Rock is doing a security assessment and where his family is living, OH NOES

also the bad guys want the MacGuffin the Rock is carrying

straightforward from here
SKYSCRAPER is a Big Stupid Acton Movie but actually the small-scale action scenes are the best part of this so far
I can see CGI anywhere but small, beautifully timed action beats are hella rare in blockbusters
The Rock is now King Konging a crane up like 100 stories and then monkeybar-ing his way to the platform

and the bad guys it turns out actually want Another MacGuffin that skyscraper guy has
The Rock makes the big jump from the trailer and the poster and the crowd goes wild
So maybe it is me but there is not a lot of movie to this movie; it is basically a B-movie with a crazy huge budget and elaborate sets
Another unspectacular and totally obvious betrayal!
sometimes I look at movies and their budget and try to figure out how much somebody could have embezzled from the production

I suspect somebody could have embezzled quite a bit from SKYSCRAPER
movie conventions I unapologetically love: how the skyscraper literally has greeblies on it just in case the Rock has to go clambering about the outside for some reason
SKYSCRAPER product placement:
* Chinese government
* parachute company
* artificial limbs
* duct tape
my God

the fucking balls on the screenwriter

THIS IS AN ADAPTATION OF "A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA"
ME. "how can this script get anymore shameless in its lifting"
SKYSCRAPER. "hey did you ever see ENTER THE DRAGON or THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI"
ME. "Yeah, those are great movies, why do you -- OH MY GOD"
Final verdict on SKYSCRAPER: wife liked it more than I did (she describes it as "the classic American hero thing"), but it does what it says on the tin! If you need a dumb movie with The Rock, this is a dumb movie with The Rock.
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You know how somehow you get a vibe on the movie just from how it looks? There's an early scene in Tom Harry's apartment that looks like a direct to video movie in cinematography and cutting terms.
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