Skyscraper

Here we have, dare I say it, a well-constructed action film. How so? For one thing, it was smart to establish the humanity of the protagonist before he is called upon to perform superhuman feats--and to do so in an organic fashion. That box gets checked early on, with considerable help from Dwayne Johnson's personal likeability as well as his character's well-cast family. Speaking of whom, making them--or at least Neve Campbell's wife/mom character--as badass as the hero himself was a good idea; it lets the audience root that much harder for each of them individually and collectively. High stakes matter in an action flick--and they rarely get higher than this one's titular edifice. The filmmakers--particularly the CGI artists--make good use of the ostensible physical locations in this story, so much so that if you're someone afraid of heights (or in my case, falls), this could be a tough watch for you. But you throw it all together and you come up with a highly entertaining piece of popcorn entertainment that's long on fun and short on mistakes (no particularly glaring plot holes, only slight absurdity in the hero's derring-do). The only real downside is the lack of any understanding, vis-a-vis building a modern Tower of Babel, that just becasue you can do soemthing, it doesn't mean you should. But this one doesn't exist for philosophizing--just for giving the ex-Rock something to make audiences go along for the roll. For that, it works.