Daylight

    Daylight
    1996

    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.

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    Cast

    • Sylvester StalloneKit Latura
    • Amy BrennemanMadelyne Thompson
    • Viggo MortensenRoy Nord
    • Stan ShawGeorge Tyrell
    • Barry NewmanNorman Bassett
    • Dan HedayaFrank Kraft
    • Jay O. SandersSteven Crighton
    • Karen YoungSarah Crighton
    • Claire BloomEleanor Trilling
    • Vanessa Bell CallowayGrace Calloway

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Empire

      In typical Rob Cohen fashion, it does exactly what it says on the tin. But that's all it needs to be the visceral rollercoaster ride we all expect.
    • 70

      Time Out

      Director Cohen keeps the vehicle cruising in fourth gear, hoping the audience won't get too impatient with the familiar scenery. Big, efficient, mindless entertainment.
    • 70

      The A.V. Club

      The assembly line of adrenaline-pumping obstacles makes the two-hour runtime fly by, though director Rob Cohen (DragonHeart, The Fast And The Furious, xXx) still manages to highlight a handful of quieter moments.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      Although this film has more cracks than the collapsing tunnel, thrill-seekers in search of two hours of cinematic action will find that Daylight falls considerably short of being a disaster.
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      Until the patently preposterous finale (you can just hear the studio suits saying, "Ya gotta make it big"), the miserable perils faced by the damp, sooty, squabbling motorists are claustrophobically convincing, assuming you accept in the first place that they escaped a fireball that looks as though it should have fried every living thing between the New Jersey and Manhattan shores.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Daylight is the cinematic equivalent of a golden oldies station, where you never encounter anything you haven't grown to love over the years.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      Had Latura et al. paused for even a moment to acknowledge what they were doing, Daylight might have been a whole other ball of fire.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      What Daylight lacks is the knowledge of its own limitations. The only really hysterical line is delivered by Sly's son, Sage Stallone, who plays one of three young prisoners also stuck in the tunnel...Surrounded by rubble and rising water, he gazes longingly at the 14-year-old Harris and says, "If we don't die in here, I was wondering if I could give you a call. . . ."