Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) Apr 10, 2026 C

As with most disaster films, there are some spectacular explosions and scary acts of destruction, but the human activity is not so well executed.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Apr 1, 2025 2.5/4

supplies plenty of bombast when the disaster strikes (the initial explosion in the tunnel is particularly spectacular), although things feel sluggish when characters talk too much

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Mar 18, 2025 2/4

The survivors are a shrill, ungrateful lot, so Latura might as well have stayed home and watched Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot for the umpteenth time.

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Allison Rose FlickDirect Mar 10, 2025 3.5/5

If you've seen Stallone in action movies, you've seen this character before.

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Grant Watson Fiction Machine Jan 29, 2025 6/10

It is mediocre to be sure, but really this sort of average, breezy entertainment remains in short supply 30 years down the track.

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Wesley Lovell Cinema Sight Feb 12, 2022 1.5/4

One of his final roles that managed some box office clout was in Daylight, a derivative disaster flick that has few actual thrills.

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Oct 10, 2020 2.5/4

...a solid entry within the disaster-movie canon.

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Adam Sandel Santa Cruz Sentinel Feb 23, 2019 C

As Daylight and other recent thrillers prove, it's much easier to create synthetic disasters, tornadoes, dinosaurs and dragons than it is to create sympathetic, believable human beings.

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 C

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Shaun Munro What Culture Feb 10, 2011 2.5/5

Despite having to wade through no end of sigh-inducing clichs, 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.

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Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 7, 2010

This is a nineties disaster flick that deserves more attention...

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Rob Nelson Boston Phoenix Sep 5, 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.

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Todd McCarthy Variety Mar 27, 2009

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.

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Nick Bradshaw Time Out Jan 26, 2006

Cohen keeps the vehicle cruising in fourth gear, hoping the audience won't get too impatient with the familiar scenery. Big, efficient, mindless entertainment.

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Chuck O'Leary FulvueDrive-in.com Oct 10, 2005 7/10

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).

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Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Jul 25, 2005 2/5

A disaster flick about a group of New Yorkers trapped in the Holland tunnel.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jul 1, 2005 1/5

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Oz Hollywood Bitchslap Mar 4, 2004 2/5

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Jan 13, 2004 2/4

You know something is wrong when Stallone actually gives one of the best performances in the picture.

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Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Oct 31, 2003 2/5

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