Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77045 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!

The first all-adult slasher!
I remember first hearing about the premise for D-Tox, and I thought to myself, that's a movie I'd want to check out. That was three years ago. Now that the movie's on DVD, I finally got the chance to see this much delayed (and much maligned) film. My opinion? Neither particularly good nor bad. It's a mostly middling picture, but it's certainly better than Stallone's last few theatrical releases (Driven, Get Carter).

The plot, as it goes, stars Stallone as Jake Malloy, an FBI agent who's chasing after a cop serial killer. But Malloy's life spirals into a downward spin when his fiancee is brutally murdered by the killer. Heavily depressed, he finally enters a D-Tox center for cops situated in the mountains of Wyoming, just as a blizzard hits. As it turns out, one of the rehab patients isn't who he says he is, and the patients and staff are getting knocked off one-by-one. As the body count rises, Malloy suspects the one responsible is the same man who killed his fiancee.

D-Tox has an undeniably fun premise, and the first twenty minutes are fast-paced and compelling. The killer's method of dispatching his victimes is morbidly amusing; he drills their eye out through the peephole of the front door, and we get to witness this not once, but twice. Not so amusing is his calling card to Malloy, the phrase "I see you." After the opening murders, we even get a tense foot chase and some gunplay, which had me suspecting I'd be in for a riveting thriller.

Not so, once the movie hits the D-Tox center, things go downhill, oddly enough. The center itself is a visually striking set, even if having such a depressing-looking rehab center in the middle of nowhere doesn't make much sense. Security here is virtually non-existent, which I suppose is understandable, given that the place is just starting up, but still doesn't seem very wise. Anyway, it's still a great setting for a potential slasher.

But the movie fails to build up maximum suspense. Don't get me wrong, there are a few mildly heart-poudning moments here and there, but the possibilities of grade-A paranoia are largely unfulfilled. The killer could almost be anyone (though the beginning rules out the possibily of the killer being a woman are non-white male), but there are hardly enough moments where director Jim Gillespie lets the characters fears and suspicions confront one another.

Equally lackluster is the whodunnit aspect. The identity of the killer is revealed rather early and, to be honest, I can't even remember what his motive was. Not helping matters is the fact that few of the characters are even developed at all. Aside from Stallone's and Polly Walker's characters, I can't remember anyone else's name. To be fair, though, the cast is largely decent in their roles (and with good actors like Charles S. Dutton and Robert Patrick, I wouldn't expect anything less than decent). Hell, I'd go so far as to say that even Stallone is good here (in all fairness, though, there are worse actors than him around), and his chemistry with Walker is fairly palpable and believable.

The pacing and suspense does pick up a bit in the last half-hour, which delivers just enough tension and excitement (loved the final fight between Malloy and the killer) to make this a so-so viewing for anyone the slightest bit interested. If there's one bit of consistency here, it'd have to be the excellent cinematography, which captures the bleak essence and isolation of a blinding snowstorm.
** 1/2 out of *****

More like 3 1/2 stars. Perfectly adequate.
I didn't feel like this movie quite deservered 4 stars, but really, it was fine.

It's just a typical "thriller" movie, with strong shades of "Ten Little Indians". Nothing new, nothing groundbreaking, but adequately entertaining. The film's direction and production values were fine, the pace was fine...basically, it was an OK film. Didn't set my world on fire, but it certainly kept me entertained well enough. Maybe this would not be the kind of movie I'd rush out to see in the theatre, but for home viewing? Fine. If you like this particular genre of film and/or are a fan of any of the stars, then you'll probably not be too disappointed with this movie.

I'm no fan of Sylvester Stallone (I won't avoid a film he's in, but he's no particular draw) but he was fine. "Fine" is a word that I see myself repeating. Meaning, it was OK. Not fantastic, not horrible...just..."fine".

I enjoyed the entire cast. Charles Dutton as Stallone's supportive friend -- I always like him. Kris Kristofferson as the head guy at the detox place -- yeah, he was good too. I'm a big fan of Tom Berenger and Robert Patrick, so I especially liked seeing them in this movie. Patrick's performance was excellent, playing a fellow "patient" at the detox center who is a rather callous macho jerk. He had a funny haircut, which somehow enhanced his peculiar character. Berenger, (appearing a little more slim than I've seen him looking in other recent films) was amusing as the down-to-earth caretaker who always seemed to be wearing of those furry caps with ear flaps, or a baseball cap. I started to think of his character as the "ear flap hat guy". Robert Prosky had a small part, but he did a good job playing another "patient" -- an aging cop with many skeletons in the closet. I must say, I was impressed with the quality of the actors they got for this movie.

The production values on the DVD are fine as well. There are a few extra goodies on the DVD -- "deleted scenes" being one (I always like deleted scenes). I have a small crummy TV so I can't judge video quality on the DVD, but from what I could see, it seemed...well...once again, fine.