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Daylight (1996)
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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 danger. 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...
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I always think of Sly Stallone when I see this flick, but having just watched Eastern promises, I wanted to watch it again for Viggo Mortensen's performance.
It won an Oscar nomination for it's sound effects, and it earned a Razzie nomination for Stallone, on of his many.
The sound effects were super, but the fire...
(complete Daylight review by B Movie Ben)
Daylight Movie Review by Zara  (4/3/2007) |
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I remember watching this movie and realizing that I never would have survived. A group of people who get trapped in some underground tunnel at one point need to hold their breath and swim underneath a fallen structure, through water, to the other side of something. I float too well. I never would have been able to do that,...
(complete Daylight review by Zara)
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