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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Yeah this is a really bad script and directed movie mostly intended for TV on a boring sunday afternoon. From the credits to the ending, the movie just fails. It's a cast of washed up and discount actors, Amy Brenneman can't act. As for Sylvester Stallone, I'm sorry, the guy can't speak fluent english. I had to put on the subtitles ! I just don't understand what he's saying and it's not the only aspect of this movie I don't get....I don't understand the entire movie !Between the poor characterization, the generic stereotypes which tells you the writer really didn't fetch far his ideas -- the fact that they are all introduced the wrong way but yet somehow the lead actor doesn't have any ! We have no idea who Latura is and where he comes from, there's no background on this guy and we discover along the way bits and parts of his character. Bad writing.The direction is bad -- the scenes are poorly shot. The stunt of the car driven by thieves that crashes into the truck full of chemical explosives is terribly shot -- we don't really see how the car managed to fly into the tanks. There's too much use of replay, quick movement or slow pace. There's no soundtrack. The quality is quite dusty, cinematography mediocre at best, the movie looks more like it was made in 1986 rather than 1996. Then the plot is weird, this character police security officer George appears from the beginning but he dies half way point ! Why ? Why spend all that time with him and then kill him half way point, makes no sense. So many elements make no sense. Why do some cars explode including the windows but others don't, how is it possible that some survived in such an accident and of course naturally a former super trained rescuer is right on the location of the accident, how fortunate. But I don't get it, he says he knows a way out, then he tells Madelyne he never had a plan and simply jumped in to rescue them and hoped to freelance a way out. For what ?! To go between four ventilators and all this trouble ? That makes no sense. But then he actually remembers of a chamber they can reach to, manages to fall off a ladder and then retreats backwards and I don't know, finds a way to escape on the surface of the river ! The best part however, is perhaps witnessing Latura and Madelyne fighting with electric current ! I don't think I've seen a movie where electric current was so easily wrestled down, considering there's fuel and water all over the place. There's only a few feel-good moments to kind of make-up for a totally improbable unrealistic picture. Just try and think about the number of people in the world who could actually do what Latura does in it without any help or equipment. It's ridiculous. Add to that lousy acting where all the characters take turns to speak and Latura pleading George to breath into an artificial tube and then funny-haha ending where he says "Yeah but let's make sure we take the bridge this time!"But the biggest disappointment is that once again, this movie is a big budget, and the potential was never materialized. It's just a waste of money and time. Just another proof Stallone can't write, can't direct and can't act.

Disgraced EMT chief-turned-cab driver Sylvester Stallone is trapped in the Hudson Tunnel after an explosion with an assortment of characters. He must lead them to safety before their air runs out. '90s version of a '70s disaster flick like The Poseidon Adventure. Nothing original but entertaining nonetheless. There are some laughable moments. One amusing part that stands out is when someone has to explain hypothermia to some dumb broad who apparently has never even heard of the word. Clearly they included this because they thought the audience was too stupid and illiterate to know what hypothermia is. The cast is good but, like those enjoyable '70s disaster flicks, there are some ridiculous characters. Vanessa Bell Calloway's Jamaican accent was laughable. That's one of those bits of business movies like this throw in that is totally unnecessary and just makes things goofier than they need to be. Viggo Mortensen's character seems like he's disposed of before they can do anything really interesting with him. It's a good movie, though, with some nice action and tension. One of Sly's better '90s movies.

I first saw Daylight with a major migraine. I really did.My friend and I made initial plans to see this movie, but I had one of my rare migraines that date. Still we went. I held my head almost the entire two hours while I…enjoyed the heck out of this.After many years, decades even, I revisited this 1990s disaster flick and still I thoroughly enjoyed it. Man, they do not make action movies like they did back in the 1990s. And this one had a special twist: no bad guys.With a serious of misfortunate events, two sides to a NYC/NJ tunnel are sealed shut, and a few survivors are lead by ex-chief, Kit (Stallone) who has a heart of gold, arms of a god and luck of an angel. I loved his character and would stand by his unrealistic, but charming savior attitude. He put himself into the center of the disaster to save just a few innocent (and some not so) lives.After event-after-event, these people band together to make it to the surface. Some might say: if you've seen one 1990s disaster movie, you've seen them all…and they might be right. In this case, it's just a tad original here and there, but overall, it's what you'd expect.Does it mean it's any less entertaining? No, not at all. I loved it. It's clichéd yet fun. It's predictable, but enjoyable. And it has its charms in the right places while delivering heavy on the action and heroism.Not groundbreaking, no pun, but it's a tribute to a bygone decade – my personal favorite for REAL action films. It also helps that Stallone looked great back then (almost 20 years ago) and still looks great today. Gotta love him!* * * Final thoughts: It's really sad that, just recently, like in the last year and a half, that Stallone's son, Sage, who had a bit role here, died of a heart attack at the very young age of 36 – and I'm just a tad older than when he passed. He wasn't the star here, nor stole every scene, but he was worthy of being on screen.

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?