If you think Skyscraper is nothing but a bald-faced ripoff of Die Hard, you are much mistaken; it is also a bald-faced ripoff of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Towering Inferno, The Lady from Shanghai, etc. Dwayne Johnson reunites with his Central Intelligence director Rawson Marshall Thurber to play Will Sawyer, an ex-FBI agent whose gig doing private security consulting for a soon-to-open world’s tallest building in Hong Kong turns into a rescue mission as his family is trapped in the building by criminal saboteurs. It’s a welcome touch to make Sawyer an action hero with a disability—he lost his leg in a hostage scenario gone bad—and Johnson remains a star with physical presence and sheer likeability. The movie simply adds nothing to the scenario of “lone underdog vs. a slew of gunmen,” including cheap kids-in-peril moments. But mostly, it’s just a bunch of set pieces that remind you of similar scenes done with more creativity in other movies. A blockbuster summer action movie shouldn’t make you think, “That bit was more tension-filled when I saw it in Finding Nemo.” By Scott Renshaw