#Skyscraper 2018 netflix movie#

That’s right - “Red Notice” is a literal Easter egg hunt of a movie, evidence that the filmmakers are at least attempting to wink at their audience.Īlas, written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Central Intelligence,” “Skyscraper”) and filmed mostly on Atlanta soundstages standing in for Italy, Russia and South America, “Red Notice” borrows and steals from so many other films it fails to conjure its own magic. (Read Justin Chang’s review of the “imitation blockbuster” here.)įueled more by star power than compelling storytelling, “Red Notice” stars the usually charming Johnson as an FBI profiler who reluctantly teams with a wisecracking art thief (Reynolds) against an even wilier art thief dubbed the Bishop (played by Gal Gadot) to track down a trio of priceless golden artifacts known as Cleopatra’s Eggs.

#Skyscraper 2018 netflix movie#

Featuring famous movie stars in exotic globe-trotting locales, heist hijinks and the vague sheen of a dozen other action flicks you know and love, what’s not to like?Ī lot, say critics. A by-the-numbers studio blockbuster originally acquired by Universal and engineered to strike box office gold, the pricey Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-Ryan Reynolds vehicle “Red Notice” instead arrives this week as a Netflix original, testing the algorithm and the limits of tentpole moviemaking on our streaming screens.