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29 out of 37 people found the following comment useful :- Stallone is good in this..., 1 November 2004 Author: alpacino2007 from NY USA
We all remember him as ''ROCKY'' or ''RAMBO'' it's unfortunately sad that the critics won't agree when sly does anything outside the ''ACTION'' genre....anyway the movie is the kind that you would watch with you're girlfriend or a loved someone on a rainy night...Troubled ''ex'' cops are in a D-TOX center ..something goes wrong when they start winding up dead...its up too stallone to catch the killer..Sylvester stallone is good as the main character, Robert patrick ( the guy in the terminator and the x files series ) is really good and gives a 10-10 In his performance in this movie..without giving away anything else..., its a good movie. and stallone just like in the last decade is very very underrated, he CAN act! *** (3)out of(5) *****
23 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :- Flawed, but not *that* bad, 31 December 2002 Author: Wizard-8 from Victoria, BC
Well, having not only spent two years on the shelf but getting released straight to video AND the original studio - Universal - disowning it (removing its logo and "Universal presents..." as well as giving it to another studio to release on DVD and video) I was expecting yet another Stallone bomb. Actually, while I would never say it's a good movie, it nowhere as bad as you might think - it's certainly better than recent Stallone turkeys like GET CARTER.It's actually starts surprisingly well. Not only is Stallone's character given a lot of dialogue, Stallone actually *acts* when delivering it. The subsequent events that traumatize his character are well done, with a genuine eerieness to them. Things continue well for a while longer, showing the utter pit of despair Stallone's character has fallen in, and Stallone once again is up to this challenge.Then he goes to the detox center, and the movie quickly falls apart. The biggest problems are:(1) WAY too many characters. It was extremely difficult to remember who was who with all these people walking in and out of the camera. It's also difficult to separate each person in your mind because we hardly learn a thing about each character - if we are lucky.(2) REALLY bad editing. Scenes (and some individual cuts) go by so quickly that we often don't get the chance to properly digest what we're given to ponder. Two things happening at the same time (in different places) are cut back and forth with no seeming purpose, and no coherent flow. Though the DVD has eight deleted scenes, it's obvious that there was originally a lot more shot. I have to agree with another poster that there are signs there was a desperate effort to save the movie in the editing room.(3) Once in the detox center, poor Stallone has almost NOTHING to do. He's given almost nothing to say, and frequently sits on the sidelines while things are happening. Not exactly a star vehicle, this movie.Still, there is a good amount of atmosphere, the movie is briskly paced (though sometimes incoherent because of this), and the sets/production values are pretty decent. While I wouldn't have recommended anyone to see it at a theater if it had gotten released there, you have to remember there have been far worse films (with and without Stallone) that did get such releases.
13 out of 17 people found the following comment useful :- Under Appreciated Murder Mystery!, 17 April 2003 Author: (bsmith5552@rogers.com) from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
The real mystery of D-Tox (hereinafter referred to by its video tile, "Eye See You") is why it never found a distributor in North America. I thought it was a good movie. You have to give star Sylvester Stallone a little credit for trying to shed his Rambo he-man image and playing a distraught and tragic hero. The story involves a serial killer who has been murdering cops and whose murders will be investigated by FBI agent Jake Malloy (Stallone). When the killer murders Malloy's girlfriend Mary (Dina Meyer) he goes into a funk and finds solace at the bottom of a bottle to the point of contemplating suicide. Malloy's friend and partner Hendricks (Charles S. Dutton) convinces him to go to an isolated D-Tox center in Wyoming run by shrink Kris Kristofferson. Malloy is thrown in with other cops from various locations who also have demons to exorcise. Among them are Christopher Fulford as Slater who tries to befriend him, Noah (Robert Patrick) who has a chip on his shoulder, McKenzie (Robert Prosky), Jones (Courtney B. Vance), Brandon (Mif) and Lopez (Angela Alvarado) among others. Polly Walker plays Jenny a sympathetic nurse and Tom Berenger and Stephen Lang as two suspicious workers at the facility. It turns out that the serial killer that Malloy thought he had killed earlier, has in fact infiltrated the D-Tox Center and has begun systematically murdering the people there. But who is he or she? Director Jim Gillespie gives us a murder mystery rather than an action film. It has the isolation and claustrophobic feeling reminiscent of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) except in this case the killer is human and not alien. Stallone is good in the lead role experiencing a wide range of emotions. Its one of his better performances in recent years. Of the supporting players, Patrick stands out as well as Fulford, Dutton, Prosky, Vance, Alvartado and Lang. Berenger hardly has anything meaningful to do and is wasted here. And watch for Ron Howard's dad Rance Howard as the proprietor of the lodge that Dutton stays at. "Eye See You" is an under appreciated film and deserves a chance to find an audience. It is hoped that the video release will give it proper visibility.
6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Missed Oppurtunity, 10 March 2004 Author: cooler_king3 from Loudon, Tennessee
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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.
6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- thumbs up, why wasn't this movie publicized more?, 27 December 2002 Author: Brian Kramer (bdk52156) from Newton, IA
I just watched a screener copy of this movie. I was thoroughly entertained. The plot was very sharp, and for a Stalone movie the acting was better than average. The movie was filled with actors that enjoy acting. Maybe the best part of the movie was just when you think you have the plot figured out there is a complete change of direction. I think that helped keep my attention. I actually got interested in the charactors and really wanted to figure out who the bad guy was. I could recommend, with a clear conscience, this movie to anyone.
4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- Very Creepy Horror/Thriller, 9 April 2005 Author: (callanvass@hotmail.com) from victoria b.c canada
This was a very creepy Horror/Thriller with an awesome performance from Sylvester Stallone!. All the characters were great, and the movie has lots of creepy atmosphere throughout, however, the killer was disappointing and wasn't that much of a surprise, and some of the characters could have been given more to do, but other then that i really enjoyed this film as it's creepy and tense!. It was cool to see Sly try something different and in my humble opinion he succeeded 100%!. however it was hard to see since, a lot of it was set in a snow storm, however that made it a lot more creepier, and mysterious if you ask me. The Direction is very good. Jim Gillespie does a very good job here, using a great mysterious location,keeping the film, creepy and atmospheric, some cool overhead shots, and keeping the film at a nice pace!, very good job. There is quite a bit of harsh violence here. We get drilled out eyes,police beater stick impaled through head (ATF),lots of bloody corpses,a few bloody gunshot wounds,bloody slit wrists,some ATF slit throats,a bit of slicing and dicing,and 2 nasty bloody impalings. The Acting is GREAT!. Sylvester Stallone is AMAZING as always, and adds another amazing performance to his career, and when he breaks down when his wife dies, i really felt it, it was incredible, in my opinion Sly is one of the most talented actors of all time, and if you think he can't act, watch this movie!, he was amazing in this (Sly Rules!).Polly Walker, is pretty good here with what she had to do, and had decent chemistry with Sly, she wasn't that bad to look at either. Charles S. Dutton is good as always, and wished he had more screen time. Kris Kristofferson does what he has to do well as the Doc. Tom Berenger was terrible here, and was terribly miscast!. Robert Patrick is good, but got on my nerves (i usually love the dude). Overall i highly recommend it! ***1/2 out of 5
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Surprising treat., 6 January 2003 Author: Lee Bartholomew (sage_patrynxx@cfu.net) from Cedar Falls, IA
(spoilers?)Knowing that Universal practically disowned this movie and that it sat on the shelf for 2 years, I expected it to be horrible. I was a bit surprised that it was alot better than many of such films.Can't see why this film didn't make it to the theater while so many other flops (XXX, pluto Nash) made it to the screen. This movie certainly would have made more money than the latest Trek showing. (torturing Rick berman now. :)The beginning credits are horrible yes. The dvd design is crap. Took me awhile to figure out that there was indeed a widescreen version on the disc. The default is pan/scan. Several deleted scene's.But for the most part, it's alot like all the other Stallone movie, but with a great deal of suspense. One of Stallone's better movies. Certainly if you loved Get Carter like me... You'll love this movie. (I've watched the original Get Carter as well. I like them both)7/10Quality: 8/10 Entertainment: 10/10 Replayable: 5/10
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Predictable but watchable thriller, 1 February 2002 Author: davideo-2 from United Kingdom
STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All CostsStallone 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.**
4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Like a diesel engine takes awhile to get humming, 8 July 2004 Author: John Wilkes Booth from Sandgate
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.
6 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :- bloody brill!, 16 July 2003 Author: haggis-11 from scotland
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!
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