Skyscraper Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs

4. It's Guilty Pleasure Trash & Knows It

Skyscaper isn't really a film that winks and nods at the audience - which would've made it decidedly more entertaining, honestly - but it admirably knows what it is, accepts its limitations and presses on with a fairly earnest, shameless treatment of the B-movie nonsense it undeniably is.

There are no pretentious attempts here to say something about humanity and the sentimental family melodrama is actually surprisingly subdued for the most part, focusing instead on the high-wire suspense and Johnson battling an army of organised terrorists.

While few would call this film ambitious, even less would say it's trying too hard or embarrassingly trying to be something it isn't. It's pure cinematic junk food and embraces that enough that it's a difficult film to dislike too much.