Daylight

PG-13

Released Dec 6, 1996

1 hr. 55 min.

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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26%

42 Reviews

Tomatometer

37%

50,000+ Ratings

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A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

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Critics Consensus

The opening's got a great fiery explosion and Stallone puts in another earnest, sympathetic performance, but all else in Daylight feels designed to annoy the audience into submission.

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Blu B

It's pretty standard stuff when it comes to disaster movies. The music is super forgettable. There is too many forgettable one dimensional characters that don't get enough devlopment. The first 20 minutes with the explosion is really good and the special effect and set design are the best things in this. But after that it slows down and never regains the franticness of the start with a lot of scenes that drag or are just boring. It feels like stuff just happens as they get out and Stallone really is in only half the film and doesn't get much backstory. What's weird is a lot of scenes just feel like they drag on even the Stallone only ones. Besides that yeah it's pretty standard by the book stuff of the disaster movie genre. Unless your a die hard Stallone fan most people should skip this.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/09/24

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Daniel M

Definitely a unique story that felt relatable since we take that tunnel all the time in NYC. It had some thrilling moments.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/30/23

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Michael W

This disaster movie was great. Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Viggo Mortensen, Jay O. Sanders, Sage Stallone, Danielle Harris, Stan Shaw, Colin Fox, and the rest of the cast did a great job in this movie. The plot of the movie was intense, dramatic, and insane. It's about doing everything you can to save people trapped underground and bringing them home alive. If you haven't seen this movie yet, check it out sometime. It's worth watching. Don't listen to the bad reviews this movie has gotten, everyone that said that this is a bad movie has terrible tastes in movies. They can't see why this is a great movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/16/23

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Daniel

Obra prima um dos melhores filmes já feitos, atemporal!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/13/23

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Steve D

It has no surprises but is still entertaining enough.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/14/23

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bernie h

Excellent thriller action, as always Sylvester's performance is great. I can only say that any reason it would be rated less than 5 stars is , some expecting absolute CGI perfection, which wasn't used in the days this movie was made. This movie is exciting.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Rob Cohen

Director

Sylvester Stallone

Kit Latura

Amy Brenneman

Madelyne Thompson

Viggo Mortensen

Roy Nord

Dan Hedaya

Frank Kraft

Jay O. Sanders

Steven Crighton

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Rated: C

Sep 7, 2011

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Todd McCarthy

Variety

A lower-echelon disaster thriller, in which the best character is knocked off early on and the leading man runs out of ideas with a third of the picture still to go.

Mar 27, 2009

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Nick Bradshaw

Time Out

Cohen keeps the vehicle cruising in fourth gear, hoping the audience won't get too impatient with the familiar scenery. Big, efficient, mindless entertainment.

Jan 26, 2006

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

One of his final roles that managed some box office clout was in Daylight, a derivative disaster flick that has few actual thrills.

Rated: 1.5/4

Feb 12, 2022

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...a solid entry within the disaster-movie canon.

Rated: 2.5/4

Oct 10, 2020

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Adam Sandel

Santa Cruz Sentinel

As Daylight and other recent thrillers prove, it's much easier to create synthetic disasters, tornadoes, dinosaurs and dragons than it is to create sympathetic, believable human beings.

Rated: C

Feb 23, 2019

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Synopsis

A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.

Director: Rob Cohen
Executive Producer: Raffaella De Laurentiis
Screenwriter: Leslie Bohem
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Davis Entertainment, Universal Pictures
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 6, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.9M
Sound Mix: Surround

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