Skyscraper (1996)

Very well executed

Masterful Cinema

Captivating movie !

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

A helicopter charter soon turns deadly when the female pilot finds that she is on a building held by terrorists. It is up to her and her husband to save the hostages. Skyscraper is half soft core porn, half an action movie and an all made Die Hard rip-off and actually quite fun and better than i expected. There's lots of action and one liners, the acting isn't that impressive but you shouldn't really care and the best scenes out of the movie were definitely Anna Nicole Smith's twin towers that were pretty big overall and nice.. (8/10)

I am actually a fan of bad low budget movies as they can bring some special entertainment than not well made movie ever can. This is one of those movies, and so I rate it accordingly to the C (or D? )movie genre.It takes the big hit of that time, Die Hard, and makes a hilarious, action filled version of it. It is here to please both men and women. Men will appreciate the view of some humongous boobs and women get a main action hero to be female and a bunch of male terrorists who look like they could be pron stars themselves only not too much gets revealed, we just enjoy watching them running in their leather pants and tank tops revealing their muscles.The soft core pornography scenes are both erotic and funny. The first one with the shower was pretty good, the other one which is Carrie's daydreaming about banging her husband is extremely hilarious. I mean, when one is trapped with terrorists in a skyscraper what can be a better thing to do than dreaming about banging your husband in some hay, right?.Anna Nicole Smith was a beautiful woman. But in this one she looks kind of weird. I mean what is it that she kept on doing with her mouth? Was it just a bit dysfunctional after some plastic operation or was it her special acting technique? I have no idea, I just wished she would stop.Acting in this movie was not of very high class. I am not even talking about Anna Nicole Smith who was the worst. Her "emotions" or better yet the total lack of them was hilarious. The rest of the cast is you see was with few exceptions not even really active in acting. Most of them have only a few credits on their IMDb lists. So this movie's acting looked very amateurish, which by the way didn't bother me too much. It looked like a bunch of people had some hell of a fun while doing it. And it seems they were not really trying to go for better acting, maybe they even tried to make it worse. Nobody was trying to hide that Anna Nicole was obviously reading most of her lines without giving them much thought, it seems if she wanted to at least act a bit, she would. I have watched actual porn where actors acted better between sex scenes. This seems like it was for our entertainment.The plot has so many holes and unexplainable things to it that I won't even bother. The dialogue is hilarious, because of how badly it is written.What they did well with, I must say were the action scenes, if we take into the account it being a low budget film. No I am not talking about the funny looking fighting scene when Anna Nicole does some weird sort of kung fu or whatever it is, or when the stud terrorists run shooting from their guns holding them in a way that makes it impossible. But the scene with the truck and explosions is wonderful. I must say they also add a lot of excitement to the movie.So I rate the movie above average but not much further because it made its job to give me great entertainment as a bad movie, but yet I have seen so many others that were even more crazy and ridiculous that this one will not be sticking in my memory so much.

1) To be in the cast, you had to have an asymmetrical face.2) The computer props were originally used in "Desk Set." 3) When the crotch in the guy's jeans split wide open, it was barely noticeable. Really.4) Anna Nichole's son had no idea he was being used as an homage to "The Shining". 5) Nobody else involved knew that either.6) International Male sales exploded when this movie was released.7) Somebody LOVED high school French class.FYI - Comcast info gave this movie 2 stars. I would love to find out what exactly warranted that extra star. And if anybody has any information on the behind the scenes story of this meisterwerke, please let me know.

I laughed, I laughed. Skyscraper is without doubt, the lamest movie I have ever seen. It was on one of my movie channels last night and I had to watch the whole thing to ensure it was indeed worthy of knocking Commando from the perch as the worst movie ever. Ana Nicole Smith, while topless in 2 scenes, basically read her lines (which may have been quite an accomplishment for her) with the emotional range of a dead squirrel. Setting aside Ana, the farcical gun play and other "acting" is simply terrible. Oh yea, and the story is a total plagiary of Die Hard. Worse movie ever. Worse movie ever. Worse movie ever. For a good laugh, enjoy.