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Summary: One of Sly's Best!
Review: 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!
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Summary: Actually Not That Bad
Review: I orginally rented this movie at Blockbuster not knowing if it was going to be good or bad. I never heard of this particular movie but I was struck by the amount of stars that were in this which include: Stallone, Kristopherson, and Berenger. As far as plot goes the serial killing aspect was very original (i.e. the displaying of the bodies at the beginning). Some of the other aspects are typical of the genre, as in Stallone's predictable tragedy. Stallone does a decent job as Special Agent Jake Malloy with a supporting cast that rises above some of this film's short comings. All and all. This film left me entertained from beginning to end and I recommend it to anyone who loves the serial killer genre. Special features include cast interviews and some deleted scenes (which I felt should have been left in).
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Summary: The first all-adult slasher!
Review: 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 *****
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Summary: My God, what a disgusting movie!
Review: I used to like Stallone a lot. Although he's not tall but still quite hansom. [...]. A lousy movie with very bad acting and too many holes to be logically explained. Stallone didn't look a bit like a FBI G man, and case like this big, with a so-called cop serial killer out there and around, the FBI would have a huge task force over hundred to work the case instead of a crying old baby trying very hard to act like a non-believable agent. From the very 5 minutes of the beginning, this movie is doomed to fall apart pathetically. The script is so ridiculous and hopeless, even by recruiting so many currently still active not-so-bad actors, it still won't do any good to this terrible movie. The title "Eye See You" is a miserable name copycatting "Eye Wide Shot" trying to fool the viewers with a sound-familiar tone. The shadowy and leaky script also failed miserably trying to follow the "Insomania", "Fargo", and dozen others but fall too short and too loose. [...] I'll remember his earlier perfoming days in "First Blood", "Rambo", and some of his "Rockie" but no further. Sigh....a very very long sigh.
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Summary: "Eye See You" is Brilliant
Review: I was supposed to have the first review. "Eye See You" a.k.a. "D-Tox" stars Sylvester Stallord. His character goes to rehab after he falls into a deep depression. Bad job, bad life. Peasants (common-folk) know how that feels. A killer does a number on patients in the hospital and Jake Malloy (Stallone) goes after him. This is the first Stallone movie to go straight-to-video and it's a shame, a mortal sin that it didn't play in the theaters. Stallone is immortal.
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Summary: Don't Waste Your Time
Review: One of the worst movies I have ever seen, the plot and the acting is bad and the violence is without merit! Pass and watch something else!
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Summary: Great performances can't save mediocre slasher flick...
Review: Sly Stallone's new movie is almost a delight, but don't hold your breath. Sadly, the Italian Stallion's latest film venture, titled in America as "Eye See You," isn't exactly all the trailers make it out to be. Here's the story in as basic a way as I can put it: disgruntled widower cop is sent to an insane asylum for cops and faces off against his greatest adversary whose face he's never seen. I was trying to describe the plot to a friend of mine, then I gave up and said, "It's just a slasher flick." When you get right down to it, that's all the movie is. Even despite great performances from Robert Patrick, Sean Patrick Flanery, Robert Prosky, Kris Kristofferson, and even Stallone himself, the film just never really lifts off. There's some good action stuff at the beginning, just to get your heart pumping, but soon the film gets to the asylum and we get something like an amateur attempt at Agatha Christie. If you're really in to slasher flicks, I suppose this one's worth a go. It's better than the Kevin Williamson sequels, and a much better alternative to "Final Stab." But "Eye See You" will probably only interest those fans of Sylvester Stallone. At least he gives those fans a good performance.
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Summary: a snowy and chilly dissapointment
Review: Stallone goes into a d-tox clinic in the chilly regions 3 months after his girlfriend dies from the hands of a killer. He checks in with other frustrated and insane cops(sorta like the NCPD, Nut Case Police Department) and hes trying to get rid of those demons, but the killer is back for more, who could it be(I knew who the killer was when he got there). when you got a good cast like this your always suspecting a good ride but the cast cant make this one live and breathe. stupid wooden characterizations, dumb dialouge. only the performance from Stallone and the grisly awesome spiked up finale is what keeps it alive. something you'd expect greatly from the director of I Know What You Did Last Winter. this one gives you frostbiting icicle nuts. the cast include Stallone, Sean Patrick Flannery(who was good for his part), Robert Patrick(too whiny and flaunting his masculinity), Robert Prosky(who gets the chair), Kris Kristofferson(whats up Doc), Polly Walker(ever so beautiful), Jeffrey Wright(the only thing standing out was his face), Charles Dutton(fat and plump), Christopher Fulford(ahhhh, the british are coming), Courtney B. Vance(could of been more better with his preist cop), Dina Meyer(thank god she died) and Tom Berenger(his character was the most annoying).
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Summary: poor sly!
Review: stallone has now joined the ranks of other action stars with flicks gone straight to video like seagal, van damme, tom berenger (who is in this film as is SNIPER 2---what?), michael dudikoff. EYE SEE YOU aka DETOX aka D-TOX aka THE OUTPOST aka, etc. was supposed to come out in 2000 in the US but never did. only overseas where it did poorly. now finally it is on dvd and i saw it and sly is sort of ok here. he does overplay his FBI agent role as he tracks a killer among a group of burnt out cops holed up in some snowy mountain rehab center. his scenes where he gets a panic attack, the shakes, and nightmares are just laughable. i get panic attacks and i do a better job than sly does. the violence is over the top. it is a so so affair. more sad news for stallone, he has TWO OTHER FILMS IN DELAY: AVENGING ANGELO (on dvd this spring-oh brother!)with the late anthony quinn and DOLAN'S CADILLAC. they may hit the dvd shelves as well and that is a shame. makes me wanna get the 1st ROCKY, and NIGHTHAWKS and even COP LAND and see the REAL stallone there.
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Summary: Lost opportunity
Review: Starts well enough, but drops the ball as soon as Malloy (Stallone) arrives at the detox centre. The intelligent characterization and promising setup of the first twenty minutes are jettisoned, and the story quickly degenerates into yet another "there's-a-monster-in-the-house" type thriller. We've seen this in every form from "Alien" to "Deep Blue Sea", and "Eye See You" (aka "D-TOX") fails to give it a new spin despite an impressively creepy location and a capable older cast. There are at least two better movies to be made from this material: a true psychological thriller in which Malloy (and the audience) cannot figure out if a killer has really followed him into rehab or if the excesses he's encountered on the job have finally unhinged him; alternatively, if it's just going to be a splatter-fest, then hire a younger cast, get to the action more quickly, and make better use of the location and crew - especially Dean Semler. His cinematography is this film's one potentially redeeming feature. Pity it doesn't make more of him.
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