****SPOILERS***** A very believable and human Sylvester Stallone. In the movie he has doubts about his abilities makes mistakes and gets pushed around by armed robbery suspect Kadeen, Marcello Thedford, without belting him back, in this disaster movie in a tunnel under the Hudson River.
A gang of carjackers speeding away from the police slams into a caravan of trucks carrying illegal toxic waste in the Lincoln Tunnel. This causes an explosion that kills scores of people driving through the the underwater tube during the late afternoon rush hour and trapping some dozen others as well as one of the trapped New Yorkers pet dog.
Kit Latura, Sylvester Stallone, a limo driver and former EMS chief is on the scene of the disaster and takes charge when no one else in authority from the tunnel supervisor Norman Bassett, Barry Newman, on down would. Kit goes underground and into that flaming and suffocating hell to save the survivors still alive and trapped inside the tunnel.
A much better movie with better all around acting that you would expect from a Stallone action-film in a race against time as well as the rising water level and depleting air supply. That as those who Kit went in the tunnel to save slowly suffocate. Kit isn't the only hero in the movie which makes him believable as well as very sympathetic. The guy for once is just an average Joe or in this case Kit.
Kit finds the way out of the water filling and air exhausting tunnel with the help, of all people, hundreds of survival-instinct tunnel rats who lead him to the safety and daylight of the outside world. Here Stallone has far more dialog in this movie then he usually has in similar-like action-film. That makes him also very touching in some scenes where he's forced to leave a number of people in the tunnel behind to die. Saving them would only jeopardize the rest and in the end have everyone else killed.
There was a very extremely moving scene with Kit and one of the survivors who was paralyzed from a broken neck George Tyrell played by Stan Shaw. George asked to be left behind and eventually dies in order to save the rest of the people with him knowing that his girlfriend Grace, Vanessa Bell Calloway, was in hysterics waiting for him up on the surface. It was equally moving and tragic to see when the survivors were pulled out of the tunnel alive one by one the reaction on Venessa's face, when see realized that George wasn't one of them.
Very prophetic ending to this disaster film with the future tragic World Trade Center in the background in the very last scene of the movie. With Sly and Madelyne, Amy Brenneman, who did just as much heroics in the tunnel as Sly did, being pulled to safety from the Hudson River.
A gang of carjackers speeding away from the police slams into a caravan of trucks carrying illegal toxic waste in the Lincoln Tunnel. This causes an explosion that kills scores of people driving through the the underwater tube during the late afternoon rush hour and trapping some dozen others as well as one of the trapped New Yorkers pet dog.
Kit Latura, Sylvester Stallone, a limo driver and former EMS chief is on the scene of the disaster and takes charge when no one else in authority from the tunnel supervisor Norman Bassett, Barry Newman, on down would. Kit goes underground and into that flaming and suffocating hell to save the survivors still alive and trapped inside the tunnel.
A much better movie with better all around acting that you would expect from a Stallone action-film in a race against time as well as the rising water level and depleting air supply. That as those who Kit went in the tunnel to save slowly suffocate. Kit isn't the only hero in the movie which makes him believable as well as very sympathetic. The guy for once is just an average Joe or in this case Kit.
Kit finds the way out of the water filling and air exhausting tunnel with the help, of all people, hundreds of survival-instinct tunnel rats who lead him to the safety and daylight of the outside world. Here Stallone has far more dialog in this movie then he usually has in similar-like action-film. That makes him also very touching in some scenes where he's forced to leave a number of people in the tunnel behind to die. Saving them would only jeopardize the rest and in the end have everyone else killed.
There was a very extremely moving scene with Kit and one of the survivors who was paralyzed from a broken neck George Tyrell played by Stan Shaw. George asked to be left behind and eventually dies in order to save the rest of the people with him knowing that his girlfriend Grace, Vanessa Bell Calloway, was in hysterics waiting for him up on the surface. It was equally moving and tragic to see when the survivors were pulled out of the tunnel alive one by one the reaction on Venessa's face, when see realized that George wasn't one of them.
Very prophetic ending to this disaster film with the future tragic World Trade Center in the background in the very last scene of the movie. With Sly and Madelyne, Amy Brenneman, who did just as much heroics in the tunnel as Sly did, being pulled to safety from the Hudson River.