Skyscraper
Universal Pictures | Release Date: July 13, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 43 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
26
Negative:
4
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88
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeJul 10, 2018
Skyscraper doesn’t change the action-movie game the way “Die Hard” did, but it’s a solidly entertaining summer diversion best enjoyed on the biggest theater — or even better, drive-in — screen you can find. And if you’re afraid of heights, make sure there’s an armrest — or even better, an arm — that you can grab. Read full review
81
IGNWilliam BibbianiJul 10, 2018
Living up to the legacy of Die Hard is a tall order, and Skyscraper never reaches those heights. But it's a gigantic and silly blockbuster matinee of a movie, with likable performances, absurd action sequences, and a heck of a lot of duct tape. Read full review
80
TimeStephanie ZacharekJul 12, 2018
It’s all just Dwayne Johnson getting the job done. There ain’t no mountain, nor skyscraper, high enough for him. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 12, 2018
Skyscraper is a tribute to duct tape, and to Dwayne Johnson’s enduring appeal. The movie is great, outlandish fun because the star makes it so; he’s a soft soul in an action-hard body. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 11, 2018
Skyscraper is one of the stupidest movies I’ve seen since San Andreas, but I enjoyed it a great deal — more than San Andreas, certainly, as well as Rampage and Baywatch and most other Dwayne Johnson pictures. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangJul 10, 2018
Johnson doesn’t get to pledge his love for unicorns and Molly Ringwald in this relatively straight-faced outing, but his versatility is more than intact: He’s a human wrecking ball, a human bridge and a human teddy bear rolled into one. He’s a towering Dwayneferno. Read full review
70
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJul 10, 2018
It’s chiefly a diversion put on for the sake of air-conditioning, an inelegant but efficient excuse to leave the swelter of our lives behind for a little under two hours. Johnson knows why we’re there, and he performs his heaving acrobatics with dutiful grace. How wondrously uncomplicated and giving he can be. Daddy really does love us, doesn’t he. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 10, 2018
On the scale that ranges from implausibly entertaining to entertainingly implausible, Skyscraper comfortably falls toward the compulsively over-the-top end, generating thrills by straining credibility at every turn, relying on Johnson’s invaluable ability to engage the audience while defying physics, common sense, and the sheer limits of human stamina. Read full review
67
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerJul 11, 2018
Skyscraper‘s knowing sense of transparency about its own corniness turns it into exactly the right kind of summer outing, a tight 93 minutes of consistently well-executed overstimulation that takes itself seriously enough to avoid total self parody while also going out of its way to avoid insulting its audience’s intelligence. Read full review
67
The PlaylistJoe BlessingJul 10, 2018
Hollywood has been showing people hanging off of things for over 100 years, and if that’s something you enjoy, Skyscraper is the pinnacle of this trope, forcing The Rock to dangle, hang, and swing at insane heights above the street time and time again. This is the MO of the whole movie, taking things that have worked before and pumping them up to The Rock-sized spectacle; it’s not too original but it provides what it promises. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJul 12, 2018
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful? Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleJul 11, 2018
It’s counting on your amnesia to the past, on screen and off, and it will readily supply you with two hours of mindless escape. It does the job better than most, thanks largely to its hulking hero. Read full review
61
Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganJul 10, 2018
The Rock retains his uncanny ability to elevate his material. Through sheer will he makes it seem possible that he could shimmy up a fraying rope outside a burning building's glass wall while carrying his own leg. Read full review
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