Daylight (1996)

How sad is this?

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A textbook example of how a disaster movie should be, this has plenty of outlandish situations, a varied range of hazards threatening our group of survivors, action by the bucket load and a typical B-movie cast, including: the token black guy; the resourceful heroine; the stressed out father; the old couple; the dog; and Stallone himself as the muscular, caring hero of the piece. All are present and correct, making this pic solid enough entertainment.Okay, so the plot is pretty basic, and consists of characters escaping from one danger to another, and another, but with this budget what do you expect? The cast are all adequate, with Mortensen probably being most memorable as the cop. Stallone basically sleepwalks through his role, but it's the mumbling action man persona his fans know and love, and it's good to see him as an actual human hero (he's gasping and clutching his chest through exertion).There's plenty of excitement to be had from numerous explosions, the old staple of the trapped survivors being in a location filling up with water, and also you get the opportunity to play the "who's going to snuff it?" game, where viewers place bets on who will be the next one to die. Let me say, it's not the dog, but then you could probably have already guessed that. With good SFX and some exciting, tense scenes, DAYLIGHT amicably passes the time if you want a film to relax and unwind with.

"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.

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.

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.