Of the rest of the supporting cast, only Neve Campbell stands out, doing her best with what is, in the early going, a flatly-written 'wife / mother' role, though Thurber's script does at least allow her to be a little more proactive in the film's second half. Roland Møller's lead terrorist is dull and uninteresting, while henchman Noah Taylor's stilted 'paycheque' performance is easily worst thing about the movie. Maybe it's unfair to keep comparing Skyscraper to the peerless Die Hard, but with a publicity campaign built around positioning the new film as the older's natural successor, Johnson and Thurber are sort of asking for it.ĭie Hard wasn't just about Bruce Willis, though, it was about Alan Rickman too, and, even putting ill-defined motives aside, the villains in Skyscraper are painfully insipid. Hans Gruber was pursuing nothing more complicated than cold hard cash, but the bad guys' motivation here is needlessly convoluted for such a fundamentally brainless action flick. The movie's plagued by nonsense science, while character motivations are murky at best, nonsensical at worst.

Sawyer's magic leg is far from the only plot hole or logical fallacy in Skyscraper – there are too many to list.

Often, the artificial leg is forgotten entirely – during any number of brutal bouts and strenuous action sequences, but especially that jump to The Pearl from a nearby crane – while at other points, it's used in rather queasy fashion as something akin to a superpower, with Sawyer using his false leg as a multi-purpose, terrorist-thwarting tool. The argument that having Johnson play an amputee hero is a positive step forward for representation is a weak one.

Skyscraper cast