Skyscraper Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs
3. The Wildly Inconsistent Visual Effects
Skyscraper has a sizeable $125 million budget, and given the VFX-heavy nature of the end product, that's not terribly surprising. It is a tad disappointing, however, that the visual effects are so ridiculously inconsistent throughout the film.
CGI fire is the main culprit, with some of the digital flames looking surprisingly decent while in other sequences it wouldn't pass muster in a video game.
Elsewhere more ambitious effects are applied to the skyscraper itself, especially in the movie's climactic showdown, though the quality of the CGI can't always measure up to the inventiveness of the action.
There are very few shots in this film that didn't require use of a green screen, and the effects range from relatively convincing to distractingly false without much rhyme or reason.