Daylight is without a doubt the worst movie Stallone has mad since Stop or My Mother Will Shoot with Estelle Getty. It's got all the taste and class as a meal at one of those Planet bend me over and charge me $30 for a bad cheeseburger and a beer.
I can just image the studio head that came up with the plot behind this one. Big Cheese"Okay, Die Hard formula movies are doing really well so where can we use it?" Lackey 1"A blimp." Big Cheese"No dice, Black Sunday with Robert Shaw" Lackey 2"A plane." Big Cheese"No that was Passenger 57 with Wesley Snipes." Lackey 3"I've got it the Lincoln Tunnel." Big Cheese"Sounds great, let's put a rich older couple in the tunnel, an obnoxious sports company exec., an artsy chick, and a black transit cop down there. That way everyone can identify with the people." Marketing Lackey"Our test audiences responded well to diverse groups." Lackey 2"How are they going to get stuck down there?" Big Cheese"Let's have an evil corporation truck highly colorful explosive toxic waste en route to be illegally dumped in the meadowlands. Lackey 1"How's it going to explode?" Big Cheese"Oh, let's just have some typecast urban punks knock over a typecast Hasidic diamond merchant, rip off his Lincoln and smash into the trucks carrying the explosive toxic waste." Lackey 2"Yeah, happens all the time." Marketing Lackey"Car chases and gratuitous explosions do very well with our test audiences." Big Cheese"Okay, now our hero, we'll call him Kit Latura. He'll be the NYPD's emergency special swat team guy who was kicked off the force for saving a little girl from a falling building, because say a policy or something. We'll have him go into the tunnel after them while the guy who replaced him waits impotently." Lackey 1"Why don't the people go out the way he came in?" Big Cheese"We'll just have Latura do an elaborate stunt sequence through the ventilator shaft, but they will only be able to shut off the giant fans for thirty seconds or so." Marketing Lackey"Unnecessary stunt scenes do very well with test audiences." Big Cheese"Then we'll think of some way to get them out of there and a bunch of bad one liners. Maybe we'll have one of the typecast punks live to add more conflict to the story. Oh yeah, let's make that artsy chick Latura's love interest. I'm hungry, how 'bout a power lunch."
That's daylight in a nutshell. It's really terrible. The acting is the only thing worse than the story. It's just another one of those movies that about twenty people wrote and turned into garbage.
What a vehicle for Sly. Viva la Hollywood
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