SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

jb_campo Daylight is a surprisingly good action/thriller movie. Stallone turns in a strong performance as the ex-head of an emergency service branch serving NY City. He's now driving a taxi, and ends up trapped in this tunnel connecting Manhattan and New Jersey.The acting and directing were both pretty good for a smaller budget film. The director manages to achieve a decent amount of tension, and Stallone is able to show enough acting ability to make you believe he really is one of these calm heroes in emergency services who knows what he's doing. The cast is interesting enough with a mixture of a family, an elderly couple, a young girl, an action hero (Vigo Mortenson), a cop, and several young convicts. The movie at times seems like Poseidon Adventure, except the ship is this tunnel. The water is seeping in, things explode, electricity shocks you, the survivors try to escape. All good stuff. Then the ending is Hollywoodian, but I expected nothing less - this is a Stallone film, so just go with it, and you'll enjoy this easy 100 minute crowd pleaser. Enjoy.

SnoopyStyle 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.

Bene Cumb I am not much into movies where people have to fight natural or man-caused accidents or animals, I prefer good against deliberate evil. Race with time to save people is high-minded, but there is no force to create or fulfill more obstacles. It may be exciting to watch ordinary people overcome themselves, but physical phenomena do not plan their consequences, things just happen due to laws of nature.Such a movie should undoubtedly have some fixed points, but Daylight has too many of them, resulting with less turning points and surprises and a number of unrealistic scenes and episodes. I do like e.g. John McLaine or Dirty Harry much more than Kit Latura. And I have become picky seeing cast representing all different genders-races-backgrounds-ages, moody survivors, moments of self-delusion, ordinary people becoming rescuing heroes...

The_Movie_Cat Possibly the most insufferably tedious Sylvester Stallone movie ever made, which is no mean feat. The star made a dozen movies during the 90s, and if he was guilty of some bad decisions in the 1980s, then it was nothing compared to what came in the following decade.First we had Rocky inexplicably growing back his Philly accent in a fourth sequel that even Stallone now rejects; two comedies which, like Rocky V, are probably better than their rep but still quite weak; and the usual line of unchallenging action movies that are below his level. Out of them, from 1990-1996 only Demolition Man emerges with any credit; an action movie as mindless as the rest, but not one without a sense of fun or watchability.It's not that there's anything particularly wrong with mindless action movies, more that such roles only use one part of the acting spectrum. Fine for the likes of Van Damme and Swarzenegger, but when you're able to co-star with DeNiro and Harvey Kietel without disgracing yourself (as Stallone did just the following year in the underrated Cop Land) then it's something of a waste. Stallone saw out the decade with the rewarding animated feature Antz, delivering two of his best pictures back-to-back, just when it seemed all over for any qualitative worth. Immediately following this he fell back into dross, before resuscitating his career in the mid 2000s with decent Rocky and Rambo sequels. It seems the guy really doesn't know what's good for him.As for Daylight, then it does, to be fair to it, deliver on its promise. A disaster movie under a collapsed subway system, said disaster happens well within twenty minutes of the film's commencement, giving us another 90m to endure Stallone gurning around and lots of ciphers shouting at one another. Such a short pre-disaster time may suggest that the characters involved are severely underdeveloped and we never get to know or care about who they are. But just look at that title quote. Someone is called upon to actually say those words. You couldn't blame them if they were glad the dialogue was on the low side, could you?