 So earlier this year the Rock was fighting monsters and now he's fighting Skyscrapers. Let's go ahead and get into it. My name is Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone. Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for Skyscraper starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I really do appreciate it. Now when it comes to Skyscraper, I cannot say that this was a movie that I was just super duper excited about, couldn't wait for it to be released. My expectations were mediocre, but I am a fan of the Rock. I liked him in Jumanji at the end of last year. I really had a great time with him in Rampage which came out a couple of months ago. I believe in April 17th or mid April. And now we have Rampage. I'm not Rampage. Excuse me Skyscraper. Like I said, I pretty much love him and his portrayal of a character and pretty much everything he does. Now I'm pretty sure you've heard the jokes that this movie is a reminder of Die Hard and yes it is a complete watered down version of Die Hard and I won't even waste any time there, but even if you look at the original poster of the film and then you look at the original Die Hard poster, you will see somewhat of a resemblance from that original 1988 film. Now what the film is about is, I'm going to say Chris Rock for some reason. The Rock, he has a family. He is a security agent. He used to be part of the armed forces, but he had an accident while he was on duty. He lost his leg. He has a prosthetic leg now and he's just a security advisor. So this corporate gentleman wants to build the highest building in the world, has all these amenities and things like that all just captivating all the wonderful luxurious things that you can think of are going to be impacted into this building, but some terrorists come out of nowhere and they want to hold everyone hostage and do a ransom and things like that. Or they have some type of nefarious plans which you won't find out and The Rock just happens to be there and he has to save his family. Nothing wrong with that premise, but when you watch the trailers you're just kind of saying to yourself, okay, this whole movie does seem completely unrealistic. It just kind of seems over the top even with it being The Rock. You may not have said that yourself, but this is kind of what I'm seeing. Even when he's on that crane running across the top of it and he has a prosthetic leg and he jumps across. So going into this movie, I thought I just knew that it was going to be silly. I knew not to take it seriously and those are just the expectations that I went in. Me having those expectations going into the film is pretty much what saved it for me. I'll talk about why in just a moment, but if you're going into this movie wanting a new age version of Die Hard from the late 80s, you will be strongly disappointed. This is a textbook definition of a popcorn flick, something that you don't have to pay attention to for you to really just get the gist of it. But some things that I did, like it's just the design of the building. The building was cool, kind of seeing the outside of it. You know, I liked, you know, I thought it was fascinating. But a complaint of mine that I have about the building is for it to be just so big and massive, I kind of wish that we would have got to see a little bit more of it. There are some nice elements that the film did reveal about the building and what it all can do. Some things you've seen before, some things you've never seen before. Before it to be so big, I did want to see just a bit more of the building. For one reason, another is this, the whole thing just did not feel real at all. It was just kind of just a big, giant CGI rectangular bar in the sky on the outside and on the inside, especially towards the end of it when all the mayhem is going down. But let's talk about the characters. Now, the Rock 4, in my opinion, for the most part, plays the same character in every movie. And that's not a gripe in my, you know, I don't have a problem with that. If you have a problem with that, I feel that that's a legitimate complaint. But in this film here, I really did feel that he was a different character, somebody that he didn't play before. Like, usually in every Rock film, he is extremely confident. You know, he steals the attention whenever he walks into a room. It seems like he just doesn't worry about anything, you know, unless he's falling from the sky or literally in the middle of a fight. But that's not what you got here with the Rock in this movie. He is, he is unsure of himself. He is somewhat doubtful. He is not the same 100% confidence that I am used to seeing in all these films. And that is not a knock that is a praise of this film. Just something that I didn't see before. And just kind of, you know, kind of just pain, just hit the nail straight on the head to flesh out his characters, especially given his condition that he did lose his leg in service. So, you know, I, I unfortunately thank God I still have all my limbs and I pray that I will until the day that I die. But I kind of got a sense of, you know, I don't want to make any assumptions assuming that, you know, if, you know, somebody that has it doesn't have other limbs, you know, how they can be kind of down and out and kind of just, you know, feeling, you know, bad at from time to times. And I think the Rock get a great job there. Another character that I was really fanciful of was Chin Han. He was the tech genius that built the building, the architect behind that and that funded it all. As in gentlemen, if you don't know him from the past, he was in The Dark Knight Rises. But he did a great job too. I really did like his confidence in the film. Rock didn't have any confidence, but this character did have confidence. There was also a big sense of mystery to him as well. I was like, what is up with his sleep? Even when it seemed like there was times in the film where he was supposed to be nervous and panic and just not know how to react to the situation. He handled himself quite well and just kept his composure. And I would when they're doing that, that just kind of stood out to me. And I was just kind of saying to myself, OK, man, what do you have up your sleeve? You know what I'm saying? Why are you not relaxed? You know what I'm saying? Or like terrorists that are infiltrating your building and trying to wreck shop. Like what's going on? But he was just like, I know what's going on. And I have everything under control. You know what I'm saying? And I just kind of did. I really did like that. Nev Campbell is in this movie as well. If you didn't know her, she's from the slasher movies Scream, which came out in the 90s and things like that. And just a little note, since I brought up Scream, that was the first slasher movie that I saw as a as a. I think I don't know if I was an elementary junior high that broke me out of my scary movie mindset. There's still some scary movies that I won't see that has to do with position, but Scream, you know, that was, you know, kind of, you know, not a virgin anymore. As far as scary movies is concerned, like me actually facing my fear. But anyway, Nev Campbell is in this. She is the wife of the rock and she is just as hard as he is when the crap does get to hit the fan. And I liked her character as well. Another character I like are the children. You know, usually children and movies can get on my nerve always doing something stupid. Daddy, save me. You know, like you shouldn't have took your ass over in the first place. So just doing something crazy to piss me off. The children in this movie did not piss me off. I like them. They were children, but at the same time they were smart. And, you know, given their age and the environment they would actually put in, you know, I actually liked them in the movie. They kind of stood out to me. But as far as everything else, so I mean, I like the characters. I mean, I like all the characters other than the main villain of the film. Well, I mean, I mean, he's not bad, but I'm just, you know, he was typical, typical foreign guy that they throw into this. Also, something else is real cool. But I like about this movie is there is a nice hand to hand fight kind of towards the beginning of this movie when things are getting ready to develop and they have rock, the rock, of course, they had to rock in it. But, you know, he did not have, you know, he has a prosthetic leg. And the way that they use that and choreographed this film, I was very entertained by that. You know, I'm seeing like, you know, the rock is big and small, but at the same time, like what can you do if you only have one real leg? What can you do if the person you're fighting knows that you only have one real leg? Two, you know, how's that going to turn out? You know, or they just to push over and it's a challenge for the rock because he's just so big and strong, but he has a handicap. Or is it even a more challenge because who he's fighting is actually strong and can fight, too. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, dang, you know what I'm saying? Like not only is the rock fighting somebody strong, but he only got one leg. It's the way that they did that was very great. Very, very great. I got that written down here and almost looked over it. But so the characters are cool. The setup is cool. The execution, I mean, it is what it is. You know what to expect. Well, maybe you don't. And I'm just telling you, don't expect great. This movie is silly as hell. I mean, I like just seriously. It just like it tries to be self aware, but it's so blatantly obvious and kind of cheap and corny that I'm not going to accept it. I mean, it's literally they could they could have just named this movie typical action movie or typical action flick or typical, you know, hero saves the day because just some of the stuff that they wanted you to buy as this to spend your level of disbelief was just so ridiculous to me with some of the physical feasts that the rock was able to accomplish in this movie. And it was this other people that I was watching before I saw this not reviews this, you know, leading up to the film, just like, you know, they're laughing and just trashing on it like, yeah, this is stupid. We're still going to have fun with it. I'm like, oh, sorry. I'm like, no, you know, this could be good. But it's just some of the stuff in there. I was just like, oh, my gosh, you know, this is so silly or whatever. But that's the thing, you know, I still enjoyed it. You know what I'm saying? It's not so bad to the point where we like, oh, my God, this is everything ridiculous. It's just like really, y'all really mean it's just some of the points. We're like, OK, all I got to do is pull back the panel, cut the wire and everything is going to be fixed. And it's like they actually had a scene like that. I'm like, you know, I mean, like the China, like, you know, set the rock up because he has like military fighting background and this and that. So he may know security, but it's just like, really, I mean, it's just that is just open the thing, how do you know you're cutting the right wire? It's only four wires. And, you know, it's just that that's just that type of thing and just some of the stunts. It's just like it was a lot of these action movies. You can probably say to yourself that will probably happen one time out of a thousand in a perfect world. You know what I'm saying? I'm thinking like Mission Impossible. Nothing in this movie would have happened in real life. You know what I'm saying? They tried. I mean, the way they painted in this movie, like it would really happen. But it's like, come on, man, like, I want to just say I want to spoil something so bad because it was just so ridiculous to me. But I'm sitting, I'm still enjoying it, but I'm just like, this is so just silly and just crazy, you know. But we know it was challenging to see the rock get back into the building. And that's kind of just where things just did pick up. But, you know, when the when the fighting between the humans itself was great. I mean, I don't want to say it was great. It was fine. It was it was serviceable. I liked it. It, you know, it was to satisfactory standards. But seeing the rock play Spider-Man all inside and outside of the building. It was just so unrealistic, you know. But I mean, you a lot of people already knew that going in. But if I'm what all that being said, guys, if I had to rate Skyscraper out of a one out of 10, I'm going to give this a six out of 10. Yes, a six out of 10. That is the lowest rating I can give this movie with this still being a positive as far as my scale is concerned. Because I mean, the film, it didn't suck. I wasn't bored ever in the film. And I did like the characters and the action was decent. But it was just so unrealistic at times to where you just like, this is silly. This is crazy. Like, I mean, you know, a lot of action movies can happen. But this is they kind of just took it far. So I'm just going to give it a six because I still enjoyed it. You know, but hey, you know, six out of 10. But guys, that is just my opinion. What have you what did you think about Skyscraper? Or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? And let me know down in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing. If you like this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up. And if you don't, that's fine. But you can still subscribe to my channel. You can also look me up on social media, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. All that good stuff is right there at the bottom of your screen. And I made it very easy by providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below. 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