"You never had a way outta here, did you?"      

DAYLIGHT (PG-13) 

I'll be brief about this one.  Daylight stars Sylvester Stallone as Kit Latura, a former Medical Services chief who sets out to save a group of people (See the picture above?  Yeah, them...) trapped in an explosion-damaged tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey.  These people are stuck, the water level's rising, the air's getting thin, and the structure's collapsing...how do they get out?

I think a key element to the success of any movie of this type is having characters that the audience can empathize with.  We need to care if these people live or die; otherwise the movie's simply a special effects and last-minute escape-scene display.  Well, unfortunately Daylight is just that--a predictable disaster-escape movie that really fails to draw much emotional response from the audience.  To blame: one of the most whining, cowardly, and unlikeable casts of "victims" I have ever seen assembled in one film.  Really, folks, half of these people don't deserve to be rescued, and though Stallone does a fair job playing the hero/rescuer, it doesn't make up for the very weak supporting cast (and equally weak dialog) that pervades this movie.  What's that light at the end of the tunnel?  After seeing this movie, you probably won't care...

Responses from cyberspace--thanks for writing, folks!

palacios_pablo@hotmail.com gives this movie  stars: "Love the action and suspence. Every one should buy the movie" (11/8/99)

Breck Dodgshun gives this movie  stars: "The movie had a fair plot and storline. The explosion in the tunnel was OK but the bloke that continually harassed Stallone about if they were going to make it annoyed the bloody hell out of me OK " (8/8/99)

mae4_4d@hotmail.com gives this movie  stars: "i thought that this movie was as good as all the rest of stallone's films. i have the movie on tape and would tell anyone that it is a movie you wouldn't want to miss seeing. every time i see it,it is as good, if not better than the first time when i watched it.stallone, keep up the great job.my family agrees with me too." (11/8/98)

George Davitos gives this movie  star: "I think it was a bad bad movie. Stallone plays like a siet. It was a bad disaster movie. I tell to everybody don't see this movie!!!!!!" (9/24/98)

maadadi@essi.fr gives this movie  stars: "Very good ! all characters are differents !" (9/21/98)

cus55@yahoo.com gives this movie  stars. (7/3/98)

restrepo@telcel.net.ve gives this movie  stars: "I totally agree about the poor casting. The only character I managed to sympathize with was the dog!" (2/16/97)

ElwoodPDowd@webtv.net gives this movie  star: "I usually like Sly's movies (I own Cliffhanger, Demolition Man, etc.) but alas, this one is a dud. You're right about the supporting characters, Leonard, and the biggest problem is that the story idea and dialogue never "held water". This is definitely one movie that NEVER should've seen the light of day!" (2/7/97)

murrayg@melbpc.org.au gives this movie  stars: "DAMN GOOD! Great suspense - especially 'giant fan' scene! Awesome action! GREAT MOVIE!" (2/4/97)

Veronica gives this movie  stars. (1/28/97)

sadler@alpha.wcoil.com gives this movie  stars. (1/5/97)

denuzzo@rogerswave.ca gives this movie  stars: "A place where the sun doesn't shine!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!" (12/23/96)