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Okay...you've bought your ticket and enter the theater to see a Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson movie. What are you expecting? A movie with "The Rock" in nearly every scene? The Rock performing feats of muscular endurance that test the imagination? A steady march of mini-cliffhangers? Good conquering Evil with the certainty of a "Rock" one-handed pull-up? WRONG! Just kidding. Actually...it would be all those things, but only add "The Rock" doing it while missing one of his legs. For "The Rock" it's all easy-peezy-lemon-squeezy.

I liked this film. It had all the entertainment value of an amusement ride at Kings Dominion. Each virtually impossible feat Dwayne overcame was like a dip on a roller coaster, and even with all the implied drama still left me giggling each time.

The special effects were state of the art, immersing the viewer in the fantasy. The skyscraper itself showed that the artists who create this make-believe have no limits to their reproduction of reality. The building itself, sure, but also the wild technology that runs every inch of the 200+ story structure. It stands holding a virtual reality "Pearl" high above Hong Kong, ready to open its doors like the Titanic on its maiden and final voyage.

My favorite anomalies were the 1000+ foot crane that just happened to have been left next to the finished 2000+ foot building, and the passage through moving walls of security (like Maxwell Smart going to work) only to end up with a safe that looks like it came from a 1961 episode of "Gunsmoke". This movie was fun with a capital "F".

You have to adore "The Rock". After overcoming almost endless scrapes with death and multiple bouts of searing pain (along with losing his fake leg several times), he ends with the composure to do a family photo like he was posing in front of Niagara Falls. What a guy. Now, why couldn't he have been President?

Three Winks Two Stinks

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