History Film / Skyscraper

* WouldHurtAChild: Botha threatens to throw Georgia off the roof and later, threatens to blow her up if Will does not give him the hard drive.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Or Kick the Bitch in this case, as Sarah [[spoiler:makes a point of knocking out Xia after she'd surrendered.]] Given all the people she had killed by that point, it was well-deserved.

Think ''Film/DieHard'' meets ''Film/TheToweringInferno'', with a dash of ''Film/TheFugitive'' for spice.

!!''Skyscraper'' contains examples of:

''Skyscraper'' is a 2018 action thriller film from director CreatorRawsonMarshallThurber. It stars Creator/DwayneJohnson (marking his second collaboration with Thurber), Creator/NeveCampbell, Creator/ChinHan, Roland Moller, and Creator/PabloSchreiber.

''Skyscraper'' is a 2018 action thriller film from director Rawson Marshall Thurber. It stars Creator/DwayneJohnson (marking his second collaboration with Thurber), Creator/NeveCampbell, Creator/ChinHan, Roland Moller, and Creator/PabloSchreiber.

* SlowDoors: Used twice; the first for Zhang Liao Ji to evade Botha and his henchmen, and the second for Will, who uses his prosthetic to get himself through the doors.

** Also, Zhang's dying bodyguard manages to nail the helicopter pilot, destroying the craft and complicating the villain's escape plan.

** The entire top half of the world's largest building has approximately ''four'' security guards. Even considering that the top half was not open to residents yet, [[spoiler: Zhang still lives there and keeps his most precious possession there and he knows that big-time criminal players are after him]].

--> Zhao: So, what's the plan?
--> Sawyer: I don't know. Just call [bleep] Creator/BruceWillis.

* DidntThinkThisTHrough: Zhao tells Will his tablet, once it has his biometric authentication, will give him full admin access to the building. Anyone who works in IT would figure on fingerprint and retina or fingerprint and PIN. But no: a simple scan of his face unlocks the tablet completely. Two-factor authentication would have prevented the whole thing. Not to mention that most commercially tablets have a feature that can re-lock the system automatically if it goes unused for a few minutes, so if that setting had been enabled, the tablet would have been useless by the time they actually got to the remote site after taking it away from Will.

* DidntThinkThisTHrough: Zhao tells Will his tablet, once it has his biometric authentication, will give him full admin access to the building. Anyone who works in IT would figure on fingerprint and retina or fingerprint and PIN. But no: a simple scan of his face unlocks the tablet completely. Two-factor authentication would have prevented the whole thing.

* BulletproofHumanShield: Will manages to escape Xia (and the police) by putting one of Xia’s men into the line of gunfire and slipping into a doorway.

* HollywoodSilencer: Xia's pistol sounds suppressed even though she never uses one.

* AdultFear: A wife and two kids trapped in a burning building with a bunch of terrorists? You could have a separate page for the trope.