Skyscraper Built on Solid Rock Skyscraper is the love child of The Towering Inferno and the original Die Hard, updated for today. Dwayne Johnson plays Will Sawyer, an Army vet and former FBI agent who’s now getting a security consulting business off the ground after losing part of his leg in the line of duty. […]
Trailer #3: Skyscraper (2018)
What is left to say about Dwayne Johnson’s latest jaunt? Come for the eye candy, stay for the impossible physics. In case you’ve been living under a Rock (get it?), Johnson is playing Will Sawyer, a combat vet-turned-security consultant on skyscrapers. He and his family are on assignment in Hong Kong, where he’s assessing the […]
Trailer #2: Skyscraper (2018)
In some ways, the upcoming Skyscraper appears to be a throwback to classics such as The Towering Inferno—set in a contained environment, with more focus on the characters than on the special effects. But where Inferno‘s calamity resulted from construction shortcuts and corruption, Skyscraper is threatened by a putative band of terrorists, a la Die Hard. […]
Review: Rampage Keeps the “Bad Video Game Adaptation” Streak Going
Lord knows we here at TDA love Dwayne Johnson. Starting with The Mummy Returns, he’s usually been the best part of whatever he’s in. This remains true for Rampage, as well. It’s just too bad the rest of the movie lets him down. Rampage was a 1986 Bally Midway arcade game in which players controlled […]
Rampage: Monster Movie, or Disaster Movie?
To hear Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson tell it, disaster movies are limited to cinematic run-ins with Mother Nature. Specifically, because his latest movie Rampage involves mutations to his gorilla friend George, he considers it a monster movie. Speaking from the movie’s set in Atlanta, Johnson said, “Well, let me take a stab at this. From […]