Skyscraper (1996)

Best movie ever!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Spunky and resourceful helicopter pilot Carrie Wisk (a hilariously miscast Anna Nicole Smith) combats a group of nasty no-count terrorists who have taken over a high-tech skyscraper.Directed with jaw-dropping ham-fisted ineptitude by Raymond Martino, with loads of incompetently staged action set pieces, lots of stuff blowing up real good, priceless tin-eared dialogue ("Time to die, you blonde bitch!), a shamelessly derivative script that rips off whole bits and pieces from "Die Hard," and violence that goes outrageously overboard on occasion, this incredibly abominable cinematic abortion rates highly as an absolute schlocky hoot and a half. With her chunky build, constant pout, squeaky baby girl voice, petulant child persona, and on and off atrociously overdone Texas accent, Smith registers as one of the single most laughably unconvincing action heroines to ever waddle her way across the screen. Fortunately, Anna Nicole bares her considerable ripe'n'robust all in both an utterly gratuitous, yet still welcome shower scene and two pretty sleazy soft-core couplings. Charles M. Huber provides a delectably thick'n'juicy slice of prime eye-rolling ham as sneering Shakespeare-quoting head villain Fairfax. Jonathan Fuller as slimy French electronics wizard Jacques, Deron McBee as vicious Fabio clone Leidermeier, Calvin Levels as cornrows-coiffed flunky Nakim, and Vincent De Palma as scummy would-be rapist Johnny Hill all further add to the gut-busting kitschy merriment. A total cruddy riot.

"It's like DIE HARD in a skyscraper!" So the legend goes about how this was described by lead Anna Nicole Smith. The creative forces behind TO THE LIMIT (PM Entertainment, director Raymond Martino, Smith, and her breasts) reunite to deliver this completely brainless, yet surprisingly mesmerizing action picture.Carrie Wink (Smith) is a helicopter pilot with her head high in the clouds. She just happens to to land on a skyscraper that is under terrorist control. Coming into contact with a top secret super weapon, Carrie becomes the target of a ruthless but well dressed group of baddies led by a Pele look-a-like. With her cop beau aiding and abetting, she sets out to spoil the terrorists plans and, hopefully, take another long shower before the end credits.This is really a bad movie fan's wet dream. Action scenes rip off the greats of the time period (CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE) and, as always, PM packs the explosions with all the punch of a gas tanker full of nitroglycerin being driven by an angry William Friedkin. Couple these explosions with Smith's frequent nudity and terrible acting to make an intoxicating mix appear. Let's not forget this priceless dialog exchange as Smith thwarts a rapist's attempts:Villain: "You f%#king whore!"Smith: "You wanna f%#k me? Villain: "F%#k you!" Smith: "F%#k this!"She then shoots him and he falls out a window to the ground 10 floors below. Rob Zombie can only dream of writing such an exchange. Smith proved she had the acting talent of, well, a Playboy Playmate. Her son Daniel even appears as a hostage who becomes Carrie's surrogate son. *cringe* PM producer Joseph Merhi ended up exploiting Smith even more when he was a producer on the THE ANNA NICOLE SMITH STORY (2007), a cheapie whipped up quickly after her untimely death.

If you turn the number sideways, you'll see why I gave this movie an 8. Check the gratuitous shower scene about 10 minutes into the movie if you don't get me.Friends, this movie is HOWLINGLY BAD. You'll laugh until tears flow from your eyes, not believing the sights and sounds assaulting your being from the screen. From Anna's non-existent acting, to the bad scenery-chewing performance of the actor playing the lead terrorist (just what country is he supposed to be from, Badaccentia?), this is prime Badfilm. There are a ton of explosions on offer, which are nicely photographed, but are so (I'll risk using the word again) gratuitous that the plot (most obvious Die Hard rip-off ever) can't be taken seriously for more than a nanosecond. Everything about this film screams: "Don't take me seriously!" On that level, the discriminating fan of bad action films will enjoy this heartily. Anyone familiar with the work of Andy Sidaris will be in familiar territory here.I feel that this movie is best enjoyed under the influence of several adult beverages. I would suggest a double feature for a night of viewing, this film and David Heavener's KILL CRAZY(see my review of that film as well). Now that's some red-blooded American entertainment. Lots of stuff gets blowed up real good! Get the pony keg and the nachos, dude!

This film has some of the worst acting I have ever seen, though I found it amusing just listening to anna nicole smith. She should do comedy and not action, Like in Naked gun.Is it just me or are all the male actors just pumped up on steroids and are like robots.The only good thing about the film is anna nicole smith flashing her body around, that she does so often. I recommend any guy that wants to see anna nicole smith strip, that they should download the clips from the internet and not buy it on DVD, unless you can pick it up for 50 pence.