Daylight Details

A Great Old-School Disaster Movie

There's no two ways about it - if this movie had been made in the seventies, it would have been put down as a classic disaster flick. Borrowing from disaster classics such as The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, this is full-on cliche ridden action which sweeps you off your feet and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the final frame. Yes its corny, yes the plot is unoriginal, yes you've seen it all before - but this film does it well. Its certainly one of the best in the genre and it puts Stallone back where he is supposed to be - headlining a big explosive action movie and showing how it should be done. This film is not oscar worthy and there are times when you will probably groan and scream 'what is he doing!???!!' at your television, but if you're a fan of action-adventure or 1970s disaster movies, this is a worthwhile passing of 2 hours. Its cheesy, explosive, edge-of-your-seat mayhem - 4 stars!

Fasten your seatbelts and brace yourself for a non-stop thrill ride that will have you holding your breath from start to finish. By 1996, no one held out much hope for a Sylvester Stallone action movie. Where Daylight scores is by bucking expectations and being a good old-fashioned disaster movie. The opening scenes are spectacular, as we are introduced, one by one, to a couple of dozen protagonists, who all then enter a New York tunnel and get blown to smithereens. The rest of the film concerns the survivors' efforts to get free, aided by Stallone. It's a lot better than it has any right to be, and uses all the genre clich?s to its advantage