The product of the pure application of money to formula, this modern-day disaster movie pits disgraced EMS chief Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone) and a plucky cross section of Manhattan society the frustrated playwright (Amy Brenneman) fleeing NY, the macho sporting-goods magnate (Viggo Mortensen); the grieving old couple (Claire Bloom, Colin Fox) and the genial bridge and tunnel cop (Stan Shaw) against mud, fire, water, falling debris, rats, toxic fumes and bureaucratic indifference in the aftermath of an explosion in New York's traffic-choked Holland Tunnel. Until the patently preposterous finale (you can just hear the studio suits saying, "Ya gotta ma...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
109 mins