D-Tox (2002)

One of my all time favorites.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Stallone is very good in this serial killer thriller as a troubled suicidal cop who is sent to a rehab type centre for troubled cops in the middle of nowhere when his girlfriend is murdered by a serial killer,the place is surrounded by snow & more snow. Stallone gives an excellent toned down & sad performance & shows he's a very good actor when he's not doing just action & here he gets to be moody & angry & he's very good. This film is directed by the same guy who directed the brilliant 90's slasher classic I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) so you know he's great at doing creepy atmosphere & someone picking off others violently. The setting is creepy & cold & lonely & makes the threat of a killer amongst the already troubled cops very scary & the paranoia is strong. The winter setting works well & gets exciting when they become cut off & stranded. A very good well made Thriller

Continuing my plan to watch every Sly Stallone movie in his filmography in order, I come to 2002's D-Tox or (Eye See You) Plot In A Paragraph: FBI Agent (Stallone) falls apart whilst chasing a serial killer who is murdering police officers. He checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials. Soon, he finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one.This movie gets a lot of hate (even from Sly fans) and Im not sure why. The first twenty minutes are fantastic, and Sly does some of his best acting, following his breakdown and arrival at the D-Tox centre, little things like the subtle shakes of his hand as he reaches for a bannister, go unmissed by casual movie fans, who lump this in with one of the worst movies Sly has ever done, simply because it was released between box office disappointments 'Get Carter' and 'Driven'Charles S Dutton, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger and Robert Patrick stand out in the supporting cast, Polly Walkers character was fine if cliché. Sadly the rest of are as bland and cliché as the come in a by the numbers slasher pic, which the movie becomes by the end, with Sly saving the damsel in distress,Early press material credited both Ron Howard and Brian Grazer as executive producers. Their studio, Imagine Entertainment, was also listed as production company. The completed film neither features their names, nor Imagine Entertainment's name or logo. The movie was finished in 1999 before Sly started work on Get Carter. Test screenings of the first cut, got very bad reactions, and the film was then shelved while story changes and getting the vast cast reassembled for re-shoots were being done. A new ending was also filmed in which the main villain is killed in a different way - but even after re-shoots, Universal Studios still didn't have any faith in it. It sat on the shelves gathering dust, before it finally received a limited release three years after completion.

Moving film contains a twisted intrigue , good eye cinematography and a support cast actually good . An alcoholic FBI enforcer named Jake Malloy (Sylvester Stallone) attempts to recover himself from a grisly killing , as his only way results to be a deep rehab . As Malloy resorts to drink but then takes the advices of his superior (Charles S Dutton) to go to snowy Wyoming detox centre conveniently located in the middle of nowhere . This defunct nuclear command and control outpost is only accessible by snow-mobile . As he checks into a rehab clinic that specializes in treating law enforcement officials with unexpected consequences . But is is not the ordinary clinic , being run by ex-cop (Kris Kristofferson) and staffed by a doctor (Polly Walker) and bitter as well as sneering loonies (Tom Berenguer). There takes place horrible crimes and Jake is taunted by a serial murderer . Thrilling suspense movie packs chills , noisy action , gratuitous violence , intriguing events , gruesome slaying and winds up into an astonishing finale . Exciting and stirring development , though predictable , when starring finds that his fellow patients are being murdered one by one . This is an acceptable thriller but contains several flaws and gaps , in fact there was trouble brewing on the set because of overages and creative concerns between the director and the studio ; as producers let it sit on the shelf for many months and after over a year it was decided to do a re-shoot . Nice production design and spectacular snowy scenarios, in fact , the film's snowstorm sequences were shot in Canada . Decent acting by Sylvester Stallone , as he comes off lightly as a cop who comes undone after witnessing a brutal scene on the job . Very good support cast though really wasted , all of them play ex-cops patients varying from psychotically aggressive , paranoids , drunken , suicidal person ; being performed by Robert Prosky , Sean Patrick Flannery , Christopher Fulford , Jeffrey Wright , Angela Alvarado , Robert Patrick , Courney B Vance , among others . Suspenseful and frightening musical score, fitting to action , by John Powell . Colorful cinematography in Panavision by Deam Semler , shot on location in Vancouver , Whistler, New Westminster, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario ,Canada This killer-chiller was professionally directed , though with no originality, by Jim Gillespie . After the movie was finished in 1999 Universal studio decided to screen it to a test audience but all screenings of the first cut got very bad reactions by them , it was then shelved for quite some time while re-shoots and story changes were being done , in conclusion , the movie debuted in USA in home video . Jim Gillespie is a director and assistant director, known for ¨Venom¨ and his big hit : ¨I Know What You Did Last Summer¨ . He also has produced and directed for TV such as ¨World without end¨ , ¨The legacy¨ , ¨Shooting Gallery¨ and ¨Cardiac arrest¨

As I was watching this movie, I thought to myself, "this movie is barely worthy of a DVD release. I would never have put this in theaters."Lo and behold, I was right. If my comment doesn't tell you of the quality of the film, try watching the five American Pie movies that went straight to DVD and you'll find out after the first 10 minutes of the first one. Like Eye-see-you, they are all available on Netflix as part of there ever expanding catalog of dung.Sly slurs his lines, per usual, which is all I ever ask of him. Everyone else looks vaguely familiar but I don't remember any of their names. Here's how I'll explain this movie. I literally think I've seen it before. But its an utter mess of a movie and people die in it so quickly its hard to even keep names straight.I therefore watched it again, thinking I'd ever seen it because of how confused I was by it. It was only in the penultimate scene that I realized I had watched it before. But it was forgettable. And I'll probably watch it again someday, come to IMDb and find out I've already reviewed it. drat.