Luecarou
What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.
Cissy Évelyne
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Beulah Bram
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
Aryana
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Python Hyena
Daylight (1996): Dir: Rob Cohen / Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya, Jay O' Sanders, Claire Bloom: Familiar disaster formula right down to the final guess. On the physical sense the title regards a subway tunnel but it also can reference hope, which is something that anyone expecting a decent film, can forget. Sylvester Stallone plays a former cop who puts his life on the line to rescue civilians trapped in a collapse subway tunnel. Directed by Rob Cohen who made Dragonheart the same year, but unlike that film, this contains nothing not even in its production values that we haven't seen many times before. The plot is completely recycled and totally dull. Stallone does all of the thinking because he is the hero, and everyone else is suppose to lay on their lazy asses while he does all the work. Amy Brenneman is involved in a stupid scene where she struggles with a live cable. She is suppose to be the hinted romantic interest, as if we care. The rest of the cast are hopeless onlookers who cannot think for themselves but they all make time to bitch at Stallone who is at least making an attempt to better the situation. Quite frankly, having that live cable inserted up my anal track might be more pleasant than watching this film. This is basically a filler film that should fill someone's garbage can. With that kind of ambition it is a wonder that the script saw daylight at all. Score: 2 / 10
Thanos Karagioras
"Daylight" is an action movie in which after some explosions a tunnel of New York collapse and many people trapped. One of these people will be the hero of this movie and we watch his attempts to find a way to save them all.It's a nice action movie for your spare time but nothing more. When you decide to watch a movie like this you close your eyes on the interpretations of the cast and you simple watch a movie. About the effects now I have to say that it did not amaze me because it's an old movie so the competition was pretty unfair. For the time that it filmed it was pretty good.To sum up I believe that "Daylight" is a nice movie to watch but in my opinion it would not be my first option to watch if I would be among others to choose.
FlashCallahan
When an explosion blocks New York's Hudson Tunnel at both ends, ex Emergency Medical Services Chief Kit Latura is the only one with the know-how and experience to save the day. Risking his life to join the survivors in the tunnel; he finds a feisty writer, an elderly couple, a famous action-man, a quarrelling family, some young hoodlums, a security guard and even a dog. Can he put his own past tragedies behind him and bring this desperate group to safety?At the time of this movies release, Stallone was at a strange point in his career. He was still making decent action movies, but his star was falling, and people were not turning up for his movies, just like this one.Yes, Dredd wasn't the best movie, but Assassins and The Specialist were solid movie, just like he made in the eighties, but people wanted something different, and Stallone wouldn't have a bona-fide hit until ten years later, when it was cool to be retro.But the film in a while is not a bad effort. The opening is brilliant, the pyrotechnics and the choreography of the disaster sets the film up to be an awesome ride, but as all disaster movies go, you really have to care about the characters in order to have a care about the movie, and to be honest, many of the characters trapped, are so boorish and pretentious, I couldn't care less.And this is the films main problem.Stallone is wonderful, and the set pieces are spectacular, but other than Brenneman, Harris, and the dog, I want bothered about anyone else.And this is a shame, because if the makers had taken the time to consider the characters, as much as the spectacle, this would have been one of the best disaster movies ever.But, it's just a really good Stallone movie...
Desertman84
Daylight is a disaster film that stars Sylvester Stallone together with Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya, and Danielle Harris.This echo of 1970s disaster flicks that tells a story of Kit Latura,a disgraced former head of New York City's Emergency Medical Services, a loser who is nevertheless a compulsive rescuer of people in danger.It was directed by Rob Cohen.A truck containing dangerous chemicals explodes in the Holland Tunnel, trapping those New Yorkers not killed in the explosion. Authorities know there are survivors, but cannot figure out what to do to save them. Ruptured water mains and leaks in the tunnel itself, which is beneath the Hudson River, will cause it to fill with water in a few hours. Of all the colorful characters trapped there, only Roy Nord, a mountain climber, has any ideas about what to do, but he quickly dies while attempting to save the others. However, Kit Latura is a former city Emergency Medical Services director who was in the area of the explosion, and he knows the tunnel's construction quirks. He quickly convinces city officials to let him wend his way through the tunnel's maze of exhaust fans to help the exhausted survivors confront the obstacles that await them.This has Stallone as a miscast who outrageously pushes the envelope of his martyr persona to near-religious levels. He throws himself, quite literally, into this part, and between that entertainment factor and the unnervingly convincing effects.Nevertheless,it is a pretty watchable film.