Product Details

• Actors: Roy Scheider, Ted McGinley, Ken Olandt, Ursula Brooks, Adam Wylie
• Directors: Jean Pellerin
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00005M2CY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,222 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Daybreak" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars BEEN THERE DONE THAT, March 2, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Daybreak (DVD)

DAYBREAK has it's heart in the right place, and Ted McGinley (Happy Days, Married with Children) is always fun, as he belies his leading man looks and brawn with a childish innocence and awkward macho. However, looking at this movie on the whole:
*Roy Scheider has succumbed to playing roles that require a toughness and in charge kind of person, but he lately seems rather bored with it all;
*Ken Olandt, who usually plays a good guy, is really very bad as the villain;
*Ursula Brooks as the rape victim starts out bitchy, then unexplicably becomes McGinley's soul partner;
*The rest of the cast including the man who plays Griffin are overwrought and unconvincing, and even the young nerd who plays Newton is derivative of other nerdish characters;
*the special effects are very amateurish, and the earthquake scenes, which are very brief, are filmed at night and nowhere near as effecive as those in the tv thriller AFTER SHOCK.
The movie seems long, and while it concentrates on character development, the action scenes are unimaginative and dull.
Not a bad movie, but not great either. Rent instead of buy, though.