D-Tox

source: Eye See You

D-Tox: 1/10 Almost unbearably bad Sly Stallone movie. So bad that it went straight to VHS/DVD and never hit cinema screens. This was basically everything that's bad about so many American action movies, predictable, boring, cliched, blah blah blah. Also, the cinematography was bad, could hardly see the fights.

I was quite surprised how good the film was. The actors/actresses did a great job and the director didn't follow typical hollywood guidelines that is so obvious in films in the past. Kudos' to all involved and should've been released to the theaters.

This just got released to U.S. theaters in Detroit and Dallas and I liked it! I don't see why it couldn't get a full release. Im sure it would of made no less than Daylight or Judge Dredd. Sly is Jake Molloy a fed who loses his wife to a cop killer then is haunted by the same killer in a D-Tox center in the middle of nowhere. In it's release here it's titled Eye See You, which I like better.

I was very dissapointed by this movie. Not because of what it was, but because of what it could have been. The movie didn't seem to know what it wanted to be. The first half of the movie was completely different than the second half. I actually enjoyed the movie until the killing at the detox center started. If this movie was a drama about cops recovering from their addictions I think it would have been pretty good. The problem was that half way through the movie became a whodunnit slasher movie. Jim Gillespie seemed to be stuck back in the I Know What You Did Last Summer mode and forgot that he was making a legitimate movie. The worst thing about the movie was Tom Berenger. His character had no importance except to throw you off and make you think that he's the killer. It was a completely pointless character. I was however impressed by the performances by Jeffrey Wright (although they seemed to forget that he existed in the last 20 minutes), and Sean Patrick Flannery (first killed off unfortunately). I think this could've been quite good as a dramatic story about a cop in detox trying to come to terms with his problems, but as a serial killer thriller this movie is a flop.

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs Stallone and the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer sound like an intriguing combination.But this belated picture isn't really.Sly's performance works more thanks to the script than to him,thanks to some emotive scenes at the beginning,otherwise he's as blank as he was in the Rambo movies.Worse than that,the story is told in a really straight-forward,unoriginal way,you can see scenes coming before you've even seen them.There are few real jolts or surprises.There's some okay action in between,but to be honest,it's hard to understand why this didn't go straight to video.**

The exposition was the worst and least helpful portion of this monster of a film, without it this would have been a Beckett with action and with it just another pell mell hodgepodge of a movie with solid twists and enough gore to disgust or excite the most cynical watcher. Sylvester Stallone (its no Copland or Rambo), Charles Dutton (doing his best Scatman Cruthers from the Shining), Stephen Lang (underutilized unlike in Gods and Generals), Robert Patrick (intense but weak beneath the veneer is well done) Kris Kristofferson (was alright as the doc) Courtney B Vance (the deacon) Tom Berenger (a phenomenal janitor) and Polly Walker (great, reticent, countenance cadenced voice, nurse) comprise the expensive cast among many others that I simply don't know from other works. I actually liked this movie, I did not expect much, but overall given a few things I would have done differently could have made some money at the box office, though the critics would attack it like blood to sharks. Fluid transitions with flashbacks, personal vignettes and dark mysterious catacombs of an air force radar station converted to a rehab facility, those cold war cutbacks really hit hard, create an honestly creepy environs that most directors and screenwriters skip for a graphic sex scene, profanity or a non-sequiter bout of over acting... I liked this movie the more I saw it and the more I thought about why such terrific actors had agreed to appear in this, aside from the money of course. Allusions to the Thing, Switchback, the Shining, Sliver (which had Berenger and Polly Walker in it), Crimson Rivers, and a myriad of other horror, sci-fiction and thrillers while running the gambit of the serial killer genre 'cliches' and Sam Peckinpah features later in his life. With a little more life this would have been a great movie...but instead I liked it no rhyme or reason why, I just liked it.

Ok after the initial shock of seeing Sly on the screen, it opened well, Sly's on top form as an FBI agent tracking down a cop killer, Ok Malloy goes down hill after several events and so we enter D-Tox. Yes at this point it gets quiet and yes `The Thing' springs to mind, but at no point does `cliche' spring to mind like some reviews. Its dark, and gets you thinking, ok its no "seven" but who cares. The ending was swift and to the `point', Malloy doesn't win the fight without getting hurt himself but it doesnt drag on. The music was good ol bass thumping suspense style and the film is not that gory but again you get the point, and when the killer is known it doesn't drag on. Sly doesn't dominate the screen and give it the big `I am', everyone plays their part. The film delivers, and it rolls along very nicely. I give it 7/10 and one thing is for sure Sly can act with the best of them, unfortunately alot of people want him to fail,the guy looks great for his age and delivers whats asked from him, we've seen Sly take a new direction the last few years which may have puzzled people, are people really that stupid to think he really acts like "rocky", that was acting. He doesn't deserve the treatment the press are giving him, but I suppose human nature can be cruel at times. T

I actually own this film & Sly plays a brilliant and surprising part in this chilling film. I would tell anyone who asked me to watch it for themselves, and if your a Sly freakette like me, you'll really enjoy it!

In all a very good thriller. I am not fan of Stallone movie but I truly enjoyed this one. I especially like the different characters in this movie including the bad guy who I like until the very end. I really like the movie.