Hiring Anna Nicole Smith—then at the height of her Guess? jeans and Playboy fame—was a masterstroke of tabloid marketing. Smith had zero action training. Her line delivery is famously stilted. But she had presence . Co-starring Richard Roundtree (Shaft himself) as a grizzled detective added a layer of baffling credibility.

Moreover, "Skyscraper" influenced a generation of action films that followed. The film's inventive set pieces and rapid-fire editing style have been emulated in films like "Die Hard" and "The Raid". The film's success also helped to revitalize the 90s action genre, paving the way for other big-budget blockbusters.

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, including characters crawling through air vents, setting off fire alarms to alert authorities, and picking off terrorists one by one.