Skyscraper – the movie for our time.

We went to see Skyscraper at the weekend. Excellent, brainless fun. Great overly-clichéd The Rock movie. The first five minutes gives the whole thing away, you know who the bad guy is going to be, you know the secret to saving the day. Everything is obvious but still great fun. Go see it.

But why is it the movie for our time? It teaches us an important lesson. Long ago, Sean Connery showed us that if you want to take over the world, you shouldn’t have an unnecessarily long and complicated way to kill the secret agent. Especially after you explain your evil plans in depth.

Since then baddies the world over have learned from this. Want to take over the world? Shoot 007 in the head and we’re good. Slow death with sharks? You’re going to prison.

Now the new lesson is best shown with this diagram.

Are you planning to take over the world / destroy the world / steal something?

So why is this the movie for our time?

Well these guys didn’t look at my handy flowchart.

About to get their asses kicked.

About to kick asses.