Will’s no-gun pledge lasts ten minutes by the way, because things in Skyscraper go downhill - meaning sky-high - fast. If you’re thinking, “Heh-heh, he’s misusing the word ‘literally,’” I can assure you that I have never been so literal-minded in my life. 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. Photo: Photo Credit: Legendary Pictures/Universal Studios.
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