Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Absolutely brilliant

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Joining the spate of 1990s natural disaster films ("Twister," "Dante's Peak," "Armageddon," "The Perfect Storm," etc.) Sylvester Stallone has to rescue a group of people trapped in a NYC tunnel collapse. Yep, that's pretty much it. Sly fends off raging water, explosion, giant fans, and all manner of destruction while working to save a collection of New York character clichés. The film was directed by Rob Cohen, who gave us "XXX" and the original of the Fast and the Furious films, so he certainly knows his way around an action sequence, but the story and characters are so weak that the film is merely one set pieces followed by another. That's not necessarily a bad thing (it's essentially the formula for the Tom Cruise Mission Impossible films), but this film felt too formula and routine to really stand out. Supporting actors in the film included Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Barry Newman, Dan Hedaya, Claire Bloom, Danielle Harris, and Stan Shaw. Meh.

This was a pretty decent action-disaster movie. It watches sort of like the 'Poseidon Adventure' with the survivors here trying to get out of the Holland tunnel after a huge explosion/fireball/cave-in blocks both exits. The group must then make their way through multiple obstacles as they get picked off one by one along the way. Its one of those movies where it becomes a guessing game as to who's going to get out of the movie alive. Always fun.Sylvester Stallone is our hero, playing an anti 'Rambo' normal everyday guy sort of character (albeit a disgraced EMS rescue-city planner- never did quite figure out his job title) but he doubts himself, makes mistakes and shows fear as he scrambles to save a dozen people from flooding, fire, dangling electrics, metal debris, rubble and general stupidity.The cast is made up of the usual suspects: older couple dog, young family with panicking mother, hero cop, some juvie criminals on their way to jail (sigh Sage Stallone) a rock climbing adrenaline junkie Viggo Mortensen (nice) and the love interest Amy Brenneman, a writer having a very bad day.'Daylight' is formulaic but its a fun watch and some of the stunts are pretty cool especially the one involving the fans (exhaust system) which was exciting. You could do worse. 12/22/15

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.

"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.