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Summary: 'Daylight' Is a Breakthrough for Stallone
Review: It's been a long time since I've given a Sylvester Stallone flick a positive review, maybe not since First Blood which was released thirteen years prior. But Daylight is maybe his best action movie, a disaster film that'll make you think twice before driving through a tunnel ever again. Sly plays an EMS chief whose been disgraced after losing a team while looking for survivors in a collapsed building. And when an explosion closes the tunnel connection Mannhattan and New Jersey on both ends he offers to go in after any survivors. He's seeking redemption which Stallone plays with subtle grace, giving his best performace since Rocky. The supporting characters are equally well acted and includes Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy), Viggo Mortensen (The Perfect Murder) and Dan Hedaya (A Civil Action). I don't want to make this sound like your typical dumb popcorn movie but Daylight will keep you on the edge of your seat with suspense and once the action gets started don't be expecting a chance to catch your breath because it's not coming. The DVD is fabulous, you'll never knew you're not in the tunnel yourself with the creaking walls and splashing water filling every one of your six speakers (if you're so lucky). If not the picture is crystal clear and with special features like this it's hard not to recommend it to everybody.
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Summary: IT'S ALL WET
Review: See Sly run! See Sly fall! See Sly yell! See Sly laboriously amble his way through his lines in a threadbare film with great special effects, but no real substance. For years Irwin Allen has had the bum rap of creating the worst, cheapest genre there is in Hollywood--the disaster flick--but recent incarnations like Daylight prove just how difficult those films were to make. What made them terrific were not just the great special effects, but the neat characters and that "fun quotient." In Daylight, you get to meet an interesting cast, but you never get to know them; consequently, you never really care what happens to them, and part of the fun of disaster flicks is caring what happens to the characters. By the time you get to the scene when everyone has to swim underwater to dry land a la "The Poseidon Adventure," you're sorely wishing for the real thing. As for Stallone's acting--HOOFAH! I used to stick up for Sly because of all those mean jokes, but MY GOD (Classic inarticulate Sly moment-- towards the end when he's planting an explosive and yelling: "You roarrr, mumble, mumble roar! You're not gonna roarrr, roar, mumle, roar! Roarrr! Adrian!")! He's not even trying. Rent this movie for the outstanding special effects, but don't buy it; you're better off buying "The Towering Inferno."
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Summary: Simply dreadful.
Review: Simply, this script should've never seen daylight...or maybe it was just the bad acting and predictable plot. Perhaps I just didn't care about the characters, at all, and found no reason to care about them....perhaps it was cheesy lines like "if we work together, we can do anything!"Stick with Rocky and Rambo and so forth....
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Summary: The best underground film ever
Review: Sly stars in one of the best underground movies ever. I saw the movie in England when it was first released on theaters, it was a great hit. The picture moves you through great principles and aspects of life. If I can I would rate it a "10". This is certainley a must see kind of movie. "good work sly"
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Summary: this movie kicks but!
Review: The DTS in this movie rocks, effects kick @55, if you have a dts dvd player and decoder this movie is a must buy
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Summary: Intense...lacks plot and story line
Review: The one great aspect of the movie was the actors, actresses, who performed very well, this movie has great sound especially in DTS, not alot of people have DTS home theatre sys.'s, but it makes even a 3* movie an easy 4*,
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Summary: Formulaic disaster movie stuff
Review: This film was meticulously crafted to the established disaster movie recipe. That recipe demands a handsome but misunderstood hero, a pretty girl for him to rescue, a good but not particularly likeable person who will die on cue and of course, a spectacular disaster. That is exactly what is served up here. The scenario is that the Holland Tunnel has collapsed at both ends because of a multiple vehicle pile up that involved some highly flammable waste being carried illegally through the tunnel. The requisite set of characters are trapped inside the tunnel and have to find a way out. Time pressure is added by the fact that the tunnel is not going to keep the water out forever and Stallone has to find a way out through long forgotten passages in order to save himself and the girl. If you are a disaster movie fan, you are sure to like this film because it passes all of the standard disaster movie tests. However, there is nothing in the film that can give it a wider appeal than that. The special effects for the explosion in the tunnel are very good indeed but the impact of those effects fades with time as new films go further with better technology. The things which make a film last are missing here. You can be pretty sure about who will escape and who will perish so there is no suspense. Also, despite a setting with a lot of potential, there is no real atmosphere. A lot of that is down to the script and acting both of which are pretty pedestrian. As a result, I can only recommend this movie to disaster film buffs and Stallone fans.
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Summary: Worst movie ever??? YES IT IS!!!!!!!!
Review: This is the WORST film ever made. I think Sylvester Stallone had marbles in his mouth while filming this. The premis is that there are a bunch of people who survived an explosion, and all you wish is that EVERY ONE OF THEM dosent make it out alive. There is not one in the group you care about. Acting is horrible, the script is horrible, the music is horrible...not one good thing about this movie. On a side note...If you take away the Rocky and Rambo flicks, Sylvester Stallone has not made one decent hit ever. EVER...go on and check, I dont make this stuff up.
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Summary: Worst movie ever??? YES IT IS!!!!!!!!
Review: This is the WORST film ever made. I think Sylvester Stallone had marbles in his mouth while filming this. The premis is that there are a bunch of people who survived an explosion, and all you wish is that EVERY ONE OF THEM dosent make it out alive. There is not one in the group you care about. Acting is horrible, the script is horrible, the music is horrible...not one good thing about this movie. On a side note...If you take away the Rocky and Rambo flicks, Sylvester Stallone has not made one decent hit ever. EVER...go on and check, I dont make this stuff up.
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Summary: The best part is watching the cliches fight for dominance
Review: This movie goes way off the unintentional comedy scale. A rag-tag group of survivors, containing every possible patented Hollywood character, from the dignified elderly to the know-it-all WASP and the fiesty token minority, are subjected to a truly hilarious disaster that makes the Poseidon Adventure look like Citizen Kane. My favorite part of this film is the invincible dog. You can always tell a Hollywood hackjob by the invincible dog, which always survives everything and is, gosh, just so darn *cute* that you're supposed to get all weepy with relief when it survives through to the credits. A classic example is the golden retriever in Independence Day that, in an awe-inspiring display of poor blue screening, somehow jumps out of the way of a fireball that just destroyed Los Angeles..and of course just at the last moment. A cousin of that redoubtable pup is found here, where it actually disappears for half the movie and then suddenly comes paddling out of nowhere in a moment that is clearly intended to be triumphant, but is just flat out funny. It's long been known that people watching a movie react far more emotionally to injuries to dogs than to people, but you've stooped pretty darn low when you have to fall back on that as a plot device.
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