- Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Charles S. Dutton, Polly Walker, Kris Kristofferson, Mif
- Directors: Jim Gillespie
- Writers: Howard Swindle, Ron L. Brinkerhoff
- Producers: Karen Kehela Sherwood, Kevin King Templeton, Maureen Peyrot, Ric Kidney
- Format: PAL
- Language English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Uca Catalogue
- DVD Release Date: 6 Jun 2005
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000066NSN
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,390 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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A Sylvester Stallone vehicle, D-Tox thinks it is inventive, earnest and serious, but it is actually just extremely dull and formulaic. Following the death of his girlfriend at the hands of a twisted serial killer, hard-nosed cop Frank Malloy (the in-need-of-a-hit Stallone) turns to drink. He then checks in to a remote, futuristic rehab clinic for cops to confront both his demons and the prospect of wearing a lavender-coloured parka for the duration of his stay. Cut off from civilisation by a freak blizzard, the inmates start committing strangely elaborate suicides, and it quickly transpires that the killer is amongst them.
The killer's motives are meant to teach us something about the human condition, but they are contrived and convoluted, and merely provide the excuse for some uninventive, suspenseless deaths. The film is also littered with supposedly profound therapy scenes in which the characters discuss fear, grief and addiction, and Stallone is foolishly given the opportunity to "act". Worse still, a very strong supporting cast (including Kris Kristofferson, Charles S Dutton, Tom Berenger and Robert Patrick) is all but completely wasted and the whole affair is both narratively and visually derivative, unsuccessfully trying to evoke the weight of numerous better films such as Seven, The Shining and The Thing. During one of many tedious bawling sessions, a fellow inmate consoles Stallone with the wisdom that "sometimes the real bad things in life can make you stronger". Watching D-Tox, however, is definitely an exception. --Paul Philpott
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Good Original Genre-Crossover Alternative,
This review is from: D Tox [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
This film was greeted with mounds of negative reviews in the media, but upon watching it on DVD is not as bad as publicised.Stallone plays a cop whos wife has been killed, and after falling off the rails and becoming an alcoholic, is sent to a detoxication clinic in the snowy outback. Joined by other cops facing similar addictions, we find out that one of the 'cops' isnt really a police officer atall, and as the body count starts to rise, the plot thickens as to who the killer actually is. This is far from being a classic, and cannot really be compared to Stallone's other films like Cliffhanger and Rocky, but is definately worth the 90 minutes duration and indeed the price of the DVD. Although classed as an action/thriller/slasher film, there is very little on-screen action, and most of the killings occur off-screen with the viewer just being shown the results. However, there are numerous tense moments and a couple of plot twists along the way, that certainly warrent the purchasing of this film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Cool crime caper!,
By DVD Fan (london, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: D Tox [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
Let me guess, you've probably not heard of this before yet it stars Stallone and Robert Patrick and a few other faces your'll regonise. Well despite being slated by the critics this is actually quite a good crime/ thriller.
Stallone plays a cop who after the murder of his wife hits the bottle, in a bid to get himself detoxed he goes to a special unit for cops etc in the middle of snowy nowhere! However drink, addiction is the least of their worries as the cast are slowly bumped off.The location really adds to the atmosphere of the movie, very prison like and may as well be in middle of the Arctic as it's so remote. This is a pretty good crime thriller with some nice plot twists. If you liked Along came a spider, Copycat you'll enjoy this!
3.0 out of 5 stars
Better than expected.,
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This review is from: D Tox [DVD] [2002] (DVD)
Having read several negative reviews on D-Tox I was apprehensive as to what to expect. I'd wanted to watch it for a while but put ir off whilst I watched more highly rated films.
Then one boring sunday afternoon with nothing better to do I decided to watch D-Tox and it turned out a lot better than most of the reviews had made it out to be. I actually enjoyed the story running up to the actual detox clinic. A serial killer has been targeting cops and has killed nine so far. Sylvester Stallone plays FBI agent Jake Malloy who is in charge of the investigation and it seems the killer also has a personal vendetta against Malloy, for his participation in pursuing the killer during a string of prostitute murders four years previous, and brutally kills Malloy's fiancé Mary. After finding Mary's body in his house the cops get a call about the killer and head to pursue him. Malloy joins and ends up chasing the killer and shoots him several times and ends up killing him, or so we think. The death of his fiancé sends Malloy overboard and he hits the bottle, Hard. Malloys colleague Detective Hendricks signs Malloy up at a remote detox clinic in a snow-covered part of Wyoming, which specialises in rehabilitating alcoholic cops. But it seems the killer isn't dead after all as bodies start appearing, it seems as thought he killer has followed Malloy to the clinic in a final bid to dispose of him once and for all. This turns into a good game of murder mystery of who-dunnit, and everyone claims to be innocent. But of course not all are. You may be suprised by who it turns out to be. Overall: Decent murder mystery style film, all be it focusing too much on the story at the beginning and rushing the scenes in the detox clinic. 3/5
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