Sylvester Stallone, Viggo Mortensen, Amy Brenneman

This echo of 1970s disaster films stars Sylvester Stallone as the disgraced former head of New York City's Emergency Medical Services, a loser who is nevertheless a compulsive rescuer of people in dan...( read more  read more... )ger. When the Holland Tunnel is sealed off after a fiery explosion and car passengers are trapped within, he goes inside and leads a group of survivors (a mixed group allegorically representing America's diversity) through all manner of pestilence toward safety. Directed by the imaginative Rob Cohen (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story), Daylight finds Stallone outrageously (and to almost campy effect) pushing the envelope of his martyr persona to near-religious levels. He throws himself, quite literally, into this part, and between that entertainment factor and the unnervingly convincing effects, this is a pretty watchable film. The collector's edition DVD release has optional widescreen and standard (pan and scan) versions, optional Spanish subtitles, and Dolby soundtrack. --Tom Keogh

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PG-13, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: Rob Cohen

Release Date: December 6, 1996

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DVD Release Date: May 26, 1998

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  • September 24, 2009
    Dayshite. It wants to be the Poseidon adventure, in a tunnel but it doesn?t succeed !
  • September 13, 2008
    Kit Latura: [hearing the tunnel collapsing on itself] "Keep trying you piece of shit. Keep trying. You've killed everybody else. You know what, you haven't killed me."

    [readies an explosive]

    Kit Latura: "I have found your heart, and I'm gonna blow it right out of you."
    ...( read more)

    [thrusts the explosive right into the wall of mud]

    A runaway car hits a truck full of toxic waste causing an explosion that seals both exit of an underground tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey. It's up to Kit Latura, disgraced ex-chief of the city's Emergency Medical Services, to find a way in and bring out the survivors before air runs out or the Hudson river runs in.

    Finally, a Rob Cohen film that didn't make me yawn or fall asleep to. What makes this film the more watchable is Sylvester Stallone's intensity as the lead role. I can watch this flick over and over again and not get tired of it. The film may be sugarcoated with a lot typical Hollywood cliches but it is enjoyable nonetheless.

    3.5/5
  • February 7, 2008
    I've got a soft spot for Stallone because, an actor/writer/director of reasonable artistic ambition at one time, he seems, like so many of us, to have got stuck doing a job he despises: the reluctant action hero, doomed never to be taken seriously by critics or audiences alike. A...( read more)nd he's not quite the appalling actor he's forever maligned as being, either; he may not have won that Oscar he was nominated for with "Rocky" in 1976, but then neither did De Niro, as Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver", and how good was he?

    "Daylight" is a reasonably entertaining disaster movie, spoiled by rotten dialogue, predictability and the cheesily developed team-building of its conveniently disparate group of unfortunates. Stallone plays his usual washed-up hero with a guilty conscience, looking for the road to redemption. Viggo Mortensen is fun as a narcissistic action-man, but he isn't around for very long. At times, it feels less like watching a movie and more like watching someone else play a computer game, in which successive perilous challenges must be overcome, against the clock, to progress to the next level. So-so.
  • September 28, 2007
    Though the story is very predictable and nothing new, this does make for an entertaining and interesting survival flick. We also get some great performances from excellent character actors including Dan Hedaya, Danielle Harris, Amy Brennamen, and the underused Viggo Mortensen. Th...( read more)ough there is a lot of good stuff here, there's a lot of contrived plot twists and predictable storylines. We know who will be killed, who won't. I totally recommend this films to Stallone fans or those who just want a good action flick.
  • August 20, 2007
    A very good movie, re-watch to understand it more, enjoyable.
  • October 8, 2009
    Has some intense and good scenes. But it's already dated and the characters are annoying,
  • August 31, 2009
    this was actually pretty good...
  • August 21, 2009
    Another one of Stallone's best. :) I love it. :) Just a great & fantastic movie. :)
  • August 15, 2009
    I don't know of any Sylvester Stallone movies that I don't like and this one is certainly no exception. I remember the critics were all over this movie because it wasn't as good as everybody was expecting it to be and then they gave it bad or mediocre reviews.
    When I finally sa...( read more)w it, I realized that it's not action packed like most of Stallone's previous movies, but it's still not a bad movie. The special effects are good and the movie will keep you interested throughout because you wonder how Stallone is going to rescue everybody from the tunnel when it seems impossible to get out.

    If you want an action packed movie don't get this one, but if you like entertaining action movies that have some mystery to them, then this would be a great movie to buy. NOTE: This was my Amazon review from the year 2000. Stallone movies indeed rock, always.
  • August 4, 2009
    One of Sylvester Stallone's movies that's actually worth watching.

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