Skyscraper Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

2. The Trippy, Visually Inventive Final Showdown

Skyscraper's final set-piece is at least a mildly ambitious attempt to diverge from a typical shootout or fistfight finale, taking place in a gigantic CGI hall of mirrors that ensures the battle feels different enough from the expected.

As mentioned, the visual effects can't always fully support and execute this vision, but it's at least an intriguing effort at something new, hurling the viewer into an entertainingly disorientating gunfight.

If nothing else, it allows the movie to deviate a little from all those Die Hard comparisons, with its visually elaborate climax steering in a totally different direction. Die Hard still did it better, though, of course.