![]() I was delighted it was Neve Campbell.) The dad who set off a bomb under his kids was one kind of father, whereas Will is the kind who’d literally climb the tallest tower on Earth to keep a bomb from going off under his. (Sarah is played by Neve Campbell, though one person I know thought she was Jennifer Garner while another was sure she was Kate Mara. The explosion, though wreaking havoc on many men, women, and children, was a blessing in that it introduced him to his wife, Sarah, a Navy surgeon who happened to major in East Asian Studies at Annapolis, which proves handy in a film set entirely in Hong Kong. In Skyscraper, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, he’s playing Will Sawyer, a former Gold Star Marine and FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader turned cybersecurity genius who has pledged never to handle a gun since the face-off with a murderously despondent father that cost him his leg. They could put his future campaign commercials there. I’ll bet the Dwayne spends three-quarters of the year in front of a green screen with no idea what’s supposed to be happening in back of him. ![]() This makes him an ideal hero for a vertical action movie, and also makes it possible, while he hangs, for filmmakers to put different things on the green screen behind him - Hong Kong, an African tundra, the San Andreas fault, a giant gorilla, Vin Diesel - and also shuttle various supporting casts in and out of the studio. The Dwayne’s upper body - notably trapezius muscles like twin anvils - does most of the work because he’s playing a character with only one whole leg, the other having been partially blown off by a bomb a decade earlier. On those rare occasions, it’s his wife and/or one of his twins doing the hanging while the Dwayne is holding onto them so fiercely you can smell the lactic acid pouring from his boulder-sized biceps. The Dwayne is rarely not hanging by one hand from a fiery tower with the city spread out 220 floors beneath him. ![]() It is in the film approximately 87 times. Movie posters tend to exaggerate or downright lie, but I promise that the image on the Skyscraper poster of Dwayne Johnson hanging by one hand from a fiery tower with the city spread out 220 floors beneath him is actually in the film. Luckily, however, Sarah is now safe on the ground and, just like Will reminded her to do with her phone, she reboots The Pearl's security controls, which reactivates the tower's fire-suppression system.Photo: Photo Credit: Legendary Pictures/Universal Studios. With a simple kick, and the element of surprise, Sawyer saves his daughter's life, and kills Kores.īut father and daughter aren't out of the woods just yet, as there's still a raging fire below. Botha is tricked into believing Sawyer is in front of him, when actually he's standing right behind him. Instead, he uses The Pearl's unique technology to his advantage: The actual pearl ornament atop the building is filled with glass panels adorned with inside and outside cameras, which can either make the walls "disappear" or transform the surroundings into a suped-up fun house of mirrors. Thankfully, Will doesn't make the same mistake twice. It's there he finds antagonist Kores Botha (Roland Møller), who's using Will's daughter as shield, echoing the disastrous standoff from 10 years earlier.
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