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Daylight

Sylvester Stallone, Viggo Mortensen, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya, Jay O Sanders

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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  • SirPant
    September 24, 2009
    SirPant
    Dayshite. It wants to be the Poseidon adventure, in a tunnel but it doesn?t succeed !
  • mrpopcorn
    September 13, 2008
    mrpopcorn
    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
  • harrycaul
    February 7, 2008
    harrycaul
    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.
  • StaisilD
    September 28, 2007
    StaisilD
    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.
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 20, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    A very good movie, re-watch to understand it more, enjoyable.
  • jhollies
    December 10, 2009
    jhollies
    Enjoyable action-disaster.
  • doglover000000
    November 16, 2009
    doglover000000
    I really enjoyed this gripping thriller! Its emotional, butt clenching with a great cast.
  • GreenGoblin92
    October 8, 2009
    GreenGoblin92
    Has some intense and good scenes. But it's already dated and the characters are annoying,
  • darfox11
    August 31, 2009
    darfox11
    this was actually pretty good...
  • RachandFrank4ever
    August 21, 2009
    RachandFrank4ever
    Another one of Stallone's best. :) I love it. :) Just a great & fantastic movie. :)
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