Movies take effort and determination, “Daylight” is nothing more than an exercise. I can call this an exercise because everything is done at such a mediocre level that it becomes just an unwatchable display of utter rubbish.

In “Daylight”, after an explosion in a New York tunnel, both ends are sealed off and there seems like no hope for the several survivors that range from an ordinary family to prisoners. A disgraced rescue officer named Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone “Death Race 2000”, “Rocky”) manages to reach the tunnel via a scene that feels more like a videogame level. Now with a shortage of oxygen and water on its way, there isn’t much hope.

The characters in this film aren’t really characters, they’re just cardboard archetypes. These archetypes are all badly scripted and badly portrayed, they’re simply they’re to moan and then to either die or be rescued. For example, we have mountaineering celebrity Roy Nord (Viggo Mortensen “A History of Violence”, “The Road”), who barely says a word before he stupidly attempts to escape the tunnel and they’re shortly after that he meets his demise. Every character is just there to talk pointless lines that merely make this sad film longer. The characters are played averagely and they’re written averagely.

“Daylight” has a routine, every time the characters manage to cover some ground somebody dies. It’s routines, which make the movie unpleasant to watch. Everything in the film feels like the makers said “We have to do this” as opposed to “Let’s try this” as there feels like there was no spontaneity involved. It feels like something you get in the back of the children’s book where you can write your own story; it has a predetermined route and you simply fill in the blanks. “Daylight” has some average acting, some average characters, an average premise and some average special effects and it all amounts to just mediocrity, which becomes sickeningly bad.