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Skyscraper is a American action thriller film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Ford, who now assesses security for skyscrapers, is on assignment in China when he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s being framed for it. On the run, he has to save his family still in the building.
Filming began in August 2017 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Additional photography and exteriors were filmed at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Skyscraper underperformed at the box office, grossing over $304 million worldwide against its production budget of $125 million.The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Johnson’s performance and the film’s suspenseful scenes, but criticized the clichéd story and deemed too similar to The Towering Inferno (1974) and Die Hard (1988)