Skyscraper Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

2. The Insanely Stupid Script

By far the worst thing about Skyscraper is its script, which is often so lazy and idiotic it feels like it was scribbled together on some napkins over the course of a lazy weekend.

It's incredibly cliched and contrived from start to finish, with stuff happening...just because. If you think about it for even a moment, the questionable logic and straight-up plot holes quickly become apparent.

Perhaps the most baffling plot point involves the skyscraper's security systems being linked to The Rock via facial recognition technology.

Considering how easily the terrorists subvert this measure, wouldn't it have made far more sense for the tablet to read the user's fingerprint for every input they perform? You'd think a building that cost a few billion dollars to build could hook that up.

That's just one example, and though you have to suspend your disbelief "because movie", the film as a whole makes little effort to have a coherent logic or actually string together a remotely creative or intelligent plot.

It's all supremely basic, algorithm-designed narrative beats intended to appeal to as wide a market as possible, and while that's not terribly surprising, it's still a bit of a shame.