Daylight (1996)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Rob Cohen

Writer (WGA):

Leslie Bohem (written by)

Release Date:

6 December 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Thriller

Tagline:

Hold your breath

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Tunnel | Explosion | Dog | Disaster | Flood Victim

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Sylvester Stallone	...	Kit Latura
Amy Brenneman	...	Madelyne Thompson
Viggo Mortensen	...	Roy Nord
Dan Hedaya	...	Frank Kraft
Jay O. Sanders	...	Steven Crighton
Karen Young	...	Sarah Crighton
Claire Bloom	...	Eleanor Trilling
Vanessa Bell Calloway	...	Grace Calloway
Renoly Santiago	...	Mikey
Colin Fox	...	Roger Trilling
Danielle Harris	...	Ashley Crighton
Trina McGee	...	LaTonya (as Trina McGee-Davis)
Marcello Thedford	...	Kadeem
Sage Stallone	...	Vincent
Jo Anderson	...	Bloom

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for disaster-related peril, death and destruction.

Runtime:

115 min | Germany:110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #34883) | Iceland:14 (theatrical rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Philippines:PG-13 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:TE | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 (w) | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | South Korea:12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | Singapore:PG

Filming Locations:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Davis Entertainment

Trivia:

Sylvester Stallone announced this movie to be his last action movie, as he deemed himself getting too old for the genre. However, he did continue to make action movies like Driven (2001), Rocky Balboa (2006) and Rambo (2008) well into his fifties and sixties.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Kit and Madelyne are coming out of the water after the explosion the sky is cloudy, but when they are saved a few minutes later the sky is clear and the sun is shining brightly.

Quotes:

Roy Nord: It's exhausting being me.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Making of 'Daylight' (1998) (V)

Soundtrack:

Don't Go Out With Your Friends Tonite

Action Hero Lite

Stallone returned after a break from action movies to make "Daylight." Here he tried to make his character more three dimensional, a human with weaknesses and flaws rather than the mute and destruction minded heroes of some of his other movies.

Making Latura as a human was a good idea, and you get to like him, although the rest of the movie doesn't quite hold up it's end. It plays as some cross between the "Poseidon Adventure" and an Irwin Allen disaster film, with an uplifting musical score. You know pretty quickly who's going to live and die, and even though Latura is a mere mortal, only he can save those lives.

Still, "Daylight" makes a good diversion, and the "good guy really is a good guy" concept works for the most part.