Skyscraper is very obviously being made in the mold of the iconic 1988 movie
Die Hard and who can blame writer/director Rawson Marshall Thurber for wanting to make a film in that mold considering both how good
Die Hard is and how there's a surprisingly large number of
Die Hard emulators that have turned out to be awesome, most notably Roland Emmerich's criminally underappreciated 2013 gem
White House Down. Unfortunately,
Skyscraper will go down in history as one of the more middling
Die Hard knock-off's, one that's shockingly bland considering its central premise is all about the leading man from Faster trying to break into a massive skyscraper that's on fire.
