It shows a group of armed thieves fleeing from the police head. Within moments, these thieves managed to escape from the police to a New Jersey tunnel and immediately escape to trucks transporting toxic waste. When the astonishing blast collapses on both ends of a tunnel, one of the heroes tries to help people inside to escape again.
It will seem suspenseful only to those who wonder whether Mr. Stallone can get the dog out alive.
Spirituality and Practice
July 25, 2005
A disaster flick about a group of New Yorkers trapped in the Holland tunnel.
What Culture
February 10, 2011
Despite having to wade through no end of sigh-inducing clichés, Sly actually comes off better here than many of his co-stars, a rather unfortunate result of...bit-part actors who may well have been dragged off the street and paid in ham sandwiches.
Cohen keeps the vehicle cruising in fourth gear, hoping the audience won't get too impatient with the familiar scenery. Big, efficient, mindless entertainment.
The best of the 1990s disaster-flick revivals, and certainly a solid effort by the usual standards of its star (Stallone) and its hack director (Rob Cohen).
USA Today
January 01, 2000
Though the explosion that seals off New York and New Jersey will have even curious theater concession stand crews bolting their posts, the characterizations are strictly low-cal.
Boston Phoenix
September 05, 2009
Still more millennial fear and commuter angst get routed through this toll-heavy disaster vehicle set in New York's Holland Tunnel--call it The Tunneling Inferno.
"Daylight" is persuasive in its action moments but puny in terms of character and dialogue. Anyone who expected anything else is probably in the wrong theater.
A lower-echelon disaster thriller, in which the best character is knocked off early on and the leading man runs out of ideas with a third of the picture still to go.
