Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.5
Audio		5.0
Extras		2.5
Overall		4.0

Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Universal and Best Buy have collaborated on a handsome 4K UHD SteelBook for the Dwayne Johnson Action film 'Skyscraper.' The SteelBook's contents are identical to the two-disc wide release UHD. See the 'Special Features and Extras' section below for more on the SteelBook itself.

Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

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Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Skyscraper's SteelBook takes an interesting color and design choice. The movie takes place almost exclusively at night, particularly once the action gets started, yet the SteelBook favors something of a brown/beige color scheme. The textless front depicts Dwayne Johnson's character, Will Sawyer, leaping from a crane to a broken window, recreating the scene in which the hero makes his way into the burning building to save his family. Sawyer appears mid-leap, centered on the imaginary Y axis and above the middle X axis. The image depicts many buildings, including another skyscraper, below, giving a sense of peril and height. It's curious because the same scene in the movie takes place at night, not during a smoggy day. Regardless, that same predominant color scheme carries over to the rear, where an image of the title skyscraper, The Pearl, towers above Hong Kong. In this shot, the building appears unblemished. Small Legendary and Universal logos, and a bit of legalese, appear unobtrusively at the bottom. The spine carries over the same brown/beige color scheme. The film's title in black is centered while Legendary and Universal logos appear at the bottom.

Inside, the digital copy code is tucked underneath the left-hand side tabs. The two discs, one UHD and one Blu-ray, are housed on the right, staggered-stacked. The interior two-panel presentation spread, which displays the heights of various buildings, is taken from a news clip seen near film's start over the opening titles. The infographic is titled "The Pearl Schematic Elevation" and features buildings of varying heights, shortest on the left and spreading to the far right. Included are depictions of and details about the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State building, the ICC Tower, One World Trade Center, the Burj Khalifa (which featured prominently in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) and finally The Pearl.

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Skyscraper 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Skyscraper doesn't offer anything new of note, but it's a thrilling, well constructed, and nicely performed Action film that takes familiar formulas and does its best to personalize the hero's journey from start to finish. It's a good time Action delight that genre fans should find to be a pleasant escape. Universal's and Best Buy's SteelBook is attractive, even considering the odd color scheme that doesn't match up with the movie, at least as it pertains to the front image. UHD picture and sound are great, and a decent little batch of extras are included. Highly recommended.