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.
