Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.
Director: Rob Cohen (DragonHeart, The Fast and the Furious, xXx)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen
- Some disaster movies are over-the-top, as if they're trying to outdo each other in grand, spectacle style. Not with Daylight. The people who are trapped face one problem after another, but it never takes away the realism and believability. These people just can't catch a break.
- For a 1997 film the CGI is superb. The NY tunnel collapsing at the start is a spectacular catastrophe. Walls cave-in, fires spread and water cascades. Not once will you feel at peace, hoping against hope that Kit Latura (Stallone) and company make it out safely.
- This leads on to Daylight's only downfall. Like most disaster films, it's predictable. It's about building that relationship with the character/s, and thinking there's a chance that no one'll survive. Rob Cohen has chucked a dog in to the cast for awkward measure, knowing an audience would love to see an animal survive far more than a human.
- Stallone has broad shoulders (mentally and physically), taking on heaps of pressure but never becoming overwhelmed by the situation at hand. He's at his best, with the performance hitting man-points in different ways than Predator or Rambo would do. He's a benevolent people's hero.
- There's light at the end of the tunnel. Daylight is an off-the-edge-of-your-seat thriller, one that stands the tests of time nearly 20 years later.
4/5
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