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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...
| Release Date: | December 6th, 1996 |
| Running Time: | 115 minutes |
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$33,023,469 (US)
$159,212,469 (World) |
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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)
| Daylight Movie Review by William (7/23/2009) |
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Daylight may not be the best disaster film, but it is still worth watching. Sylvester Stallone stars as a former fireman who is now a taxi driver who gets got up outside of an explosion in a tunnel, and now the ex-fireman has to use his skills in order to save the survivors that were caught up in the explosion. The special...
(complete Daylight review by William)
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 Movie Addict)
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