This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

A Brilliant Conflict

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

That is how bad Daybreak is. Of course there may be some novelty value if you're in a good mood, but if you are screaming with laughter it is because of how unintentionally funny the movie in its awfulness is. Daybreak is very poorly rendered visually, it is very choppily shot and edited and the effects look as though they haven't even been finished. The sound doesn't do any favours either, coming across as bizarre and the lack of audio authenticity dilutes any terror anybody is meant to feel in this situation because the threat is instead unthreatening. The dialogue is cheesy and inane, and there is nothing exciting, surprising or suspenseful in the story with listless moments that are so ridiculous you can have £10 for each time you laughed(you'll probably find yourself at over £1000). The characters are annoying stereotypical cardboard cut-outs, especially the loudmouth constantly looking for a fight, and the acting is dire with a mixture of over and under acting and nobody even Roy Scheider can do anything with what they had to work with. In conclusion, an awful, unintentionally hilarious movie that should never have seen the light of day. 1/10 Bethany Cox

Here are some of the important things I learnt while watching this movie:Smart and gifted kids, when paying for their train fare and noticing that they have 60 cents left to pay, put in one small coin and are dismayed when it comes up short of the 60 cents.Further to the last point, that coin dropped the total left to pay from 60 to 25 cents. Therefore, there must be a 35 cent coin. There just must be.All people getting on the subway at any one station will sit within two metres of each other, all on the one carriage. Absolutely everyone else on the train will get off on the next station. This just must be normal behaviour.Earthquake is just an abbreviation of "the camera is shaking".During earthquakes, fire burns on the the outside of non-broken 15th floor windows.The only buildings destroyed in earthquakes are created by computers.Men whose chests have been crushed by a steel support pole are only in pain when the pole is lifted off their chests.Teenage kids are never freaked out by unknown men giving them money, regularly initiating conversation and following them around darkened collapsed tunnels.One spark is all it takes to set the entirety of a subway carriage on fire. Within a second. There's always a nurse, an insecure beautiful girl, a man dealing with personal loss, a nerd and an aggressive criminal trapped by every cave-in."A train full of unsuspecting commuters" really means four people.Explosions powerful enough to send dumpsters with two people half the length of a storage room are not powerful enough to move anything else in the room, despite many other items being lighter and closer to the explosion.And finally, imagine a scenario where a reporter is told, during a press conference, that a few people are presumed to be dead. If these people were to appear (alive, of course) right next to the press conference, how would the reporter phrase her next question? (Keep in mind that by now, everyone knows that the people are alive.)a) "Now that we know they are alive..." b) "Why did you assume they were dead when..." c) "A source tells me that these people may, in fact, be alive..."If you answered (C), disregarding the fact that she had no source who could've seen the people alive and then relayed that information to her, and the reason she knows they are alive is that she has seen them with her own eyes, you would be correct.

Wow. What a waste of a rental. This really goes to show that you should never judge a book (or DVD) by its cover. The train screaming down a subway tunnel with flames chasing it really reeled me in - only to find that I had already seen this movie - see "Daylight" starring Sylvester Stallone. The only differences between these two movies is that Daybreak ate faeces. Oh and "Daylight" actually contained some character building - something this movie lacked altogether besides a 5 minute throw together of random unrelated scenes from characters' pasts - which was hard to follow at first but soon gelled into the familiar combo of underground puzzles and shallow characters. Take the tough, fresh out of custody guy. One word - irrational. He opposes every obvious escape plan the others can think of. He also gets into a punch up with someone he barley knows whilst he should be worrying about being trapped underground in a swiftly flooding subway tunnel filled with gas leaks and cave-ins. The only bit I liked was when he died - which in itself was weak and also the very beginning - when the worker got doused in acid - that was cool. I won't go into the other characters or countless reasons this movie sucked - they're all the same - shallow, weak, and poorly acted. Now don't get me wrong - I liked Rob Cohen's "Daylight" - which is one of the reasons I hated Daybreak - it had the same basic plot but worse everything else. 3 out of 10 for the acid.

There has to be a worse movie than this - R.O.T.O.R. and CHICKEN PARK spring to mind... Nah, this takes the cake! So God-awful amateurish, trite and laughable, I would think any first-year film student would be failed on this effort. Some wannabe Bruckenheimer has figured "Lets re-make DAYLIGHT with a subway wreck...Oh and by the way guys, we only got $500 tops!" I could have made a better and more entertaining film with my old cam-corder, the postman and the moth-eaten bitser next door: CUJO 2: THE POSTMAN NEVER CALLS TWICE You're talking crap plus. Special effects so un-special as to be the laughing stock of Hollywood......make that Anchorage, Alaska! An earthquake, consisting of a camera on its side, a few hazy photographs and someone tossing dust over the lens. A train-wreck you never see. Actors can't act, a script that was hand-written on cue-cards some 10 minutes before the crew turned up......and sadly, Roy Scheider embarrassing his entire career, his agent, his family and anyone who ever attended an acting workshop.Speaking of which, I was once asked to strip to my undies, lie on the floor and portray a rose unfurling its petals in the morning sun. "Improvise," my drama teacher said. From memory I embarrassed not only myself, but every rose that ever bloomed. STILL I topped any and every performance in this inconceivably juvenile loser of a movie.If you paid more than $1 for this trash in any bargain-basement-bin, you've "done" your money cold!