TheLittleSongbird That is how bad Daybreak is. Of course there may be some novelty value if you're in a good mood, but if you are screaming with laughter it is because of how unintentionally funny the movie in its awfulness is. Daybreak is very poorly rendered visually, it is very choppily shot and edited and the effects look as though they haven't even been finished. The sound doesn't do any favours either, coming across as bizarre and the lack of audio authenticity dilutes any terror anybody is meant to feel in this situation because the threat is instead unthreatening. The dialogue is cheesy and inane, and there is nothing exciting, surprising or suspenseful in the story with listless moments that are so ridiculous you can have £10 for each time you laughed(you'll probably find yourself at over £1000). The characters are annoying stereotypical cardboard cut-outs, especially the loudmouth constantly looking for a fight, and the acting is dire with a mixture of over and under acting and nobody even Roy Scheider can do anything with what they had to work with. In conclusion, an awful, unintentionally hilarious movie that should never have seen the light of day. 1/10 Bethany Cox

NickBBK Wow. What a waste of a rental. This really goes to show that you should never judge a book (or DVD) by its cover. The train screaming down a subway tunnel with flames chasing it really reeled me in - only to find that I had already seen this movie - see "Daylight" starring Sylvester Stallone. The only differences between these two movies is that Daybreak ate faeces. Oh and "Daylight" actually contained some character building - something this movie lacked altogether besides a 5 minute throw together of random unrelated scenes from characters' pasts - which was hard to follow at first but soon gelled into the familiar combo of underground puzzles and shallow characters. Take the tough, fresh out of custody guy. One word - irrational. He opposes every obvious escape plan the others can think of. He also gets into a punch up with someone he barley knows whilst he should be worrying about being trapped underground in a swiftly flooding subway tunnel filled with gas leaks and cave-ins. The only bit I liked was when he died - which in itself was weak and also the very beginning - when the worker got doused in acid - that was cool. I won't go into the other characters or countless reasons this movie sucked - they're all the same - shallow, weak, and poorly acted. Now don't get me wrong - I liked Rob Cohen's "Daylight" - which is one of the reasons I hated Daybreak - it had the same basic plot but worse everything else. 3 out of 10 for the acid.

uds3 There has to be a worse movie than this - R.O.T.O.R. and CHICKEN PARK spring to mind... Nah, this takes the cake! So God-awful amateurish, trite and laughable, I would think any first-year film student would be failed on this effort. Some wannabe Bruckenheimer has figured "Lets re-make DAYLIGHT with a subway wreck...Oh and by the way guys, we only got $500 tops!" I could have made a better and more entertaining film with my old cam-corder, the postman and the moth-eaten bitser next door: CUJO 2: THE POSTMAN NEVER CALLS TWICE You're talking crap plus. Special effects so un-special as to be the laughing stock of Hollywood......make that Anchorage, Alaska! An earthquake, consisting of a camera on its side, a few hazy photographs and someone tossing dust over the lens. A train-wreck you never see. Actors can't act, a script that was hand-written on cue-cards some 10 minutes before the crew turned up......and sadly, Roy Scheider embarrassing his entire career, his agent, his family and anyone who ever attended an acting workshop.Speaking of which, I was once asked to strip to my undies, lie on the floor and portray a rose unfurling its petals in the morning sun. "Improvise," my drama teacher said. From memory I embarrassed not only myself, but every rose that ever bloomed. STILL I topped any and every performance in this inconceivably juvenile loser of a movie.If you paid more than $1 for this trash in any bargain-basement-bin, you've "done" your money cold!

gbalfour I am certain Roy Scheider must have sacked his agent after this movie. In fact, this movie was such a disgrace to that any respectable agent would have left the industry to become a use car salesperson. Here is an actor nominated for two Academy Awards, reduced to lines like, `Be careful down there!'But there are so many people to blame for this abomination that it seems an impossible task to find any one person to blame. Geri Barger claims `writing credits.' I assume this is taking credit for the order in which every cliché in the history of disaster films is placed. There was certainly no original dialogue in this movie. In fact, nothing in this movie was original.As in any movie where a group of people are stranded, there is the loudmouth who wants to pick a fight. The inevitable bimbo girlfriend of the loudmouth because they always seem to get a girl. The woman who has had problems with men and the man who is in charge but has something haunting him from the past. And, let's not forget a genius geek teen that naturally has all of the answers that save the day.But so much of this movie is so implausible and so poorly acted that it left me with tears of laughter.