Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55858 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-12-31
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

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What do you get when you cross the director of I Know What You Did Last Summer with Sylvester Stallone? You get a slasher film in which the victims are not screaming, scantily clad teens, but parka-clad cops. Whether that's an improvement on the genre is open for debate. With Eye See You (which never hit U.S. theaters but was released internationally as D-Tox), Stallone's career has officially "Van-Dammed." But the role of FBI special agent Jake Malloy is something of a dramatic departure. Unable to catch a cop killer before he nastily dispatches his girlfriend (wouldn't you know; right before Jake was about to propose!), Jake takes to the bottle. He enters a snowbound rehab center for cops housed in the Wyoming mountains. The demons Jake must confront are not just psychological. A killer is stalking the residents one by one. Shallow characterizations and ham-fisted dialogue are good for armchair heckling, but for Stallone fans, this will be of interest as even more of a career curiosity than Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

One of Sly's Best!
I noticed several years ago that Sly was making this moving. Afterwards, though, it passed my mind. I went to the video store one day and saw this title and instantly made the connection that this was originally D-Tox. I was disappointed that it made a straight to DVD appearance. Being a big Sly fan that I am, I would have loved to have seen this in theaters!
Anyways, I picked up the title and was expecting a decent film. But instead I got a great film!
The all-star cast makes this movie entertaining and chalk full of great actors who know how to act! The story itself is original and very suspensefull! Perhaps the best one I have seen to date!
This title is one of the more gruesome Stallone films with people's eyes getting drilled (although you don't actually see it happen but you do see the aftermath) and people getting their throats cut and what have ya. Definately not for the person with a touchy stomach.
All in all a great movie that really deserved a chance in theaters!

MYOPIC
EYE SEE YOU starts out pretty good, offering us a weird serial killer after cops. Then it goes off its beam a little, including a puzzling scene where Stallone shoots a man hanging, with duct tape over his mouth. Did they think this was the serial killer? Got me. Anyway switch to a remote detox clinic in Wyoming (actually a beautifully filmed British Columbia) run by the lifeless Kris Kristofferson. Here Stallone is joined by a series of cops who are also suffering their personal demons: Robert Patrick is an obnoxious beefed up bore; Robert Prosky brings a little dignity to his role as an aging cop who supposedly deserted his partner who got killed; Sean Patrick Flannery in a brief but intense role as a cop who witnessed an explosion that killed 20+ children; Christopher Fulford as a British cop with a fear of the dark; Courtney B. Vance who spoke so soft I'm not sure what his role was, other than being the "religious one". Jeremy Wright and Ms. Alvarado were wasted in non-dimensional roles. Polly Walker was pretty as Jenny, although her range was limited. Charles S. Dutton played every cop you've ever seen including Dennis Franz. And why Tom Berenger as a handyman? Director Gillepsie did everything he could to point the murder finger at Berenger.
So what's good? Stallone, amazingly, does a pretty convincing job, a low-key but intense portrayal. The cinematography is gorgeous, giving the winter scenery both a breathtaking beauty and an ominous evil. And the finale is very well executed.
So overall, you could do worse....it's entertaining most of the time.

One of the better Stallone movies to come along in recent years!
Not counting Rocky Balboa, which just hit the theaters a week-and-a-half ago, it's been a long time since I've seen Sylvester Stallone in a movie I really enjoyed. The only reason I ordered Eye See You was because the premise of a serial killer hunting down cops seemed so intriguing. I have to admit to not expecting very much from the movie. I figured it would simply be another throw away, but boy was I surprised. I found myself caught up in the film within the first few minutes and then trying to guess whom the killer really was throughout the rest of the movie. While not great, Eye See You is much better than most viewers might think, considering that it was never released theatrically inside the United States.

The movie centers around Stallone playing Jake Malloy, an F.B.I. agent whose fiancé has just been murdered by the serial killer (a brilliant psycho that usually chooses cops as his victims) he's trying to catch. Traumatized by the event, Malloy turns to alcohol as a way of dealing with his inability to save the woman he loved. His close friend and fellow agent, Hendricks (played by Charles Dutton), eventually gets him into a very special rehab center that's geared directly toward cops and their situations. The center is run by an ex-cop (Kris Kristofferson) and is located in an old military facility that's been vacated out in the wilds of Wyoming. As one might guess, there are male cops and female cops, along with white cops, black cops, and Puerto Rican cops, not to mention American cops, British cops, and an old Canadian Royal Mounted Policeman who's played by Robert Prosky. All the police officers have experienced some kind of trauma in their lives and are trying to deal with it in their own unique way, the common denominators being alcohol and drugs. The catch here is that one of the cops is not who he seems to be and before long the group of people begin to drop like flies as they're mysteriously killed off. It doesn't take Jake Malloy long to realize that the man who killed his fiancé is now at the facility, playing a deadly game of cat and mouth with him. Who will live and who will die are the big questions facing Malloy as he gets himself together in an effort to face the killer who changed his life forever.

My actual rating for Eye See You is more like 3 ½ stars, But, since I couldn't put that, I opted for going to four stars because the movie has such an excellent cast (Tom Berenger, Charles Dutton, Courtney Vance, Robert Patrick, Kris Kristofferson, and Robert Prosky) and proved to be a delightful surprise to me after I'd just watched three clunkers in a row. Stallone's role also proved to be more character driven than many of his past ones, giving him an opportunity to display his acting chops. And, believe it or not, Stallone is a decent actor when he has the right material to work with. The movie was filmed entirely in British Columbia as a lot of TV movies are today. The daylight photography is beautiful, but three-fourths of movie is either filmed at night, or inside the cold, stark, lifeless facility. The extras on the DVD include several deleted scenes and interviews with all of the main cast members, except for Sylvester Stallone. I have no idea why Stallone isn't interviewed when it could've been so easily done during the filming of the movie. Still, all in all, Eye See You proved to be a fun experience, and I certainly don't mind adding it to my film collection. Last, but not least, if you really want to see Stallone in top form, go see his newest film, Rocky Balboa. It goes back to the quality and acting of the first "Rocky" movie.