review by Joe Scaramanga
Skyscraper 1996
Reviewed Jan 27, 2012
Joe Scaramanga’s review:
Tesco-Value remake of Die Hard with Anna Nicole-Smith as a kung fu kicking helicopter pilot stopping a group of terrorists from stealing a super weapon from a sparsely populated ...um... skyscraper.
There's very little action, and what there is is clearly an attempt to recreate scenes from Die Hard on a pocket money budget: there's a window cleaner rig instead of a firehose, a waste bin fire instead of explosives in a lift shaft and so on.
Nicole-Smith is utterly dreadful, possibly the worst acting performance I have ever seen, and of course she gets a gratuitous shower scene, a gratuitous sex scene, and, rather less tastefully, a gratuitous rape scene.
It's so bad it can't even decide how many floors the building has.
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