Daylight (1996)
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 114m
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Claire Bloom, Stan Shaw, Barry Newman
Synopsis:
Criminals sequester three truckloads of highly flammable explosive only to come a cropper during a high speed chase in the New Jersey tunnel. The ensuing mayhem leaves several survivors trapped inside and in imminent danger of asphyxiation and drowning; cue former rescue team leader-cum-cabbie Stallone's one-man intervention and conduct of the mixed bunch to safety.
Review:
Despite its length a disaster film remarkably free of longueurs and with several impressive scenes of destruction and nail-biting situations. It was of course a shameless updating of the Rambo character to an urban context, and it followed up Independence Day's apocalyptic effects sequences with more of the same but with the added benefit of the three unities. Total nonsense, and the heist on which the whole misadventure is premised is never explained, but immensely entertaining if you're not in the mood for thought.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 114m
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Claire Bloom, Stan Shaw, Barry Newman
Synopsis:
Criminals sequester three truckloads of highly flammable explosive only to come a cropper during a high speed chase in the New Jersey tunnel. The ensuing mayhem leaves several survivors trapped inside and in imminent danger of asphyxiation and drowning; cue former rescue team leader-cum-cabbie Stallone's one-man intervention and conduct of the mixed bunch to safety.
Review:
Despite its length a disaster film remarkably free of longueurs and with several impressive scenes of destruction and nail-biting situations. It was of course a shameless updating of the Rambo character to an urban context, and it followed up Independence Day's apocalyptic effects sequences with more of the same but with the added benefit of the three unities. Total nonsense, and the heist on which the whole misadventure is premised is never explained, but immensely entertaining if you're not in the mood for thought.
Country: US
Technical: DeLuxe 114m
Director: Rob Cohen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, Claire Bloom, Stan Shaw, Barry Newman
Synopsis:
Criminals sequester three truckloads of highly flammable explosive only to come a cropper during a high speed chase in the New Jersey tunnel. The ensuing mayhem leaves several survivors trapped inside and in imminent danger of asphyxiation and drowning; cue former rescue team leader-cum-cabbie Stallone's one-man intervention and conduct of the mixed bunch to safety.
Review:
Despite its length a disaster film remarkably free of longueurs and with several impressive scenes of destruction and nail-biting situations. It was of course a shameless updating of the Rambo character to an urban context, and it followed up Independence Day's apocalyptic effects sequences with more of the same but with the added benefit of the three unities. Total nonsense, and the heist on which the whole misadventure is premised is never explained, but immensely entertaining if you're not in the mood for thought.