This movie was exhausting. I couldn't take it. So many pathetic human beings crammed into one tunnel. If the tunnel collapsed and killed them all I would've felt a million times better. Mean, I know, but it's a movie so whatever.

If we handled disasters in the way they were handled in "Daylight" then we're doomed as a people. There were about a dozen selfish talkative morons and one superhero. That's not a formula for success. Even when the movie made them work together in a moment of human togetherness it was contrived, sappy, and absurd. They merged from bickering to self-sacrifice to bickering all without missing a beat. It was highly annoying.

What happened?

An unscrupulous toxic waste handler had his guys transport some highly combustible material from New York to New Jersey to illegally dump it. While going through the Holland Tunnel the trucks were involved in an accident and it all exploded. The explosion killed many and those it didn't kill it trapped underneath. Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone),a former fire chief, risked his life to rescue the consortium of trapped people. From the moment he reached them there was non stop complaining, yelling, ego-tripping, blaming, and every other sort of counterproductive behavior you could think of. It was headache inducing. I just wanted the noise to stop. If that meant every one of them had to die under a trillion tons of rubble, so be it.

Among the putrid personalities:

The new fire chief who wouldn't accept any help from Kit, because you never accept help in a crisis. He died.

A celebrity extreme athlete who never met a challenge he couldn't conquer. He started climbing in an unstable area he was told not to. He died.

A prisoner who wanted to be in charge though he was woefully ill-equipped. He was such an raging tool that he was going to kill the one guy who could actually help them all. Of course, he died.

A traffic cop--the last Black guy left--who actually was the only decent person of the bunch. He died.

An older woman who loved her dog more than life itself. She had a heart attack and died.

All the rest of the yellers, screamers, criers, and complainers lived thanks to the heroic selflessness of Kit--leaving me with an irreparable headache.

A truck filled with explosives accidentally explode collapsing a NY tunnel. Sylvester Stallone is a some kind of disaster planner Kit Latura. Of course he charges in to help get everybody out. And everybody thinks little of him. For some reason, all the people in charge are always wrong.

This is a disaster movie. It's got all the stupidity that comes with it. But even by that standard, this isn't a good example of the genre. People are too annoying. Everybody is screaming yelling arguing. It's all testosterone. Instead of real emotions, we get overacting. Sly isn't much better. But all the ridiculous machismo really makes Sly almost tame and reasonable.

There are moments in life where you have quite the obstacles to overcome ... and if you believe in movies like this ... well those obstacles are quite big. But with Sly Stallone by your side, nothing can go wrong, right? Well it's not that easy of course.

You have to like movies like this - my inner cynic kicked in a couple of times. But the movie has enough tension and action pieces to keep you on the edge of your seat. And like any good movie, the will to survive is strong in this one - which doesn't mean that everyone will make it through - no pun intended.

Having said all that, the very last image the movie shows us ... we've seen the twin towers in other movies, but in connection with a movie like this .. it seems either badly aged or really a bad omen ...