SKYSCRAPER (12A) Dwayne Johnson channels the spirit of Die Hard-era Bruce Willis in a vertiginous adventure thriller directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who previously worked with the leading man on the hit action comedy Central Intelligence.
Will Sawyer (Johnson) is a former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader, who lost one of his legs in the line of duty. Sarah (Neve Campbell) was the attending surgeon that day and Will fell in love with her during his hard-fought recovery.
Ten years later, Will and Sarah are married with a sassy daughter Georgia (McKenna Roberts) and a young son Henry (Noah Cottrell).
The doting father has retired from the FBI and is working instead as a security expert, who has just been hired by Zhao Min Zhi (Chin Han) to offer his assessment of The Pearl, one of the tallest superstructures in the world.
Sarah and the children become the first family in the residential section of the building while Will carries out his vital work.
A group of terrorists storms The Pearl and sets the 96th floor ablaze. Sarah and the children are trapped above the raging inferno and move towards the roof to stay alive.
Meanwhile, Will puts his FBI training into action to leap from a crane into the building and outwit the terrorists, who have an ulterior motive for storming The Pearl.
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