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 & in the middle of a blizzard filled winter, 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 & messed up, he's very good & really does a great tortured performance & i felt for his character alot & would rank this up there as definitely one of his best performances of his Career!!!
If any film of Stallone's is an underrated Gem then it's this one.
This is an ensemble flick with a bunch of great actors among the group with Robert Patrick, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Charles S. Dutton, Jeffrey Wright, Stephen Lang, Courtney B Vance, Robert Prosky, Christopher Fulford, Dina Meyer & Sean Patrick Flannery. Thats a hell of a good cast of actors & are all pretty solid in this serial killer Thriller.
Now another good thing about this slick, underrated Cop Thriller is the casting of Robert Patrick among the ensemble, this guy is so cool & is one of those intense & rugged actors that usually turns up in B-movies or in Big films but in a small role, anyway i love Patrick & been a big fan of his since the video days when he got my attention in AWESOME films such as Die Hard 2, T2, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Zero Tolerance, Cop Land & many more, Robert Patrick is a favourite of mine & i love to see him pop up in stuff, he also starred with Stallone in CopLand.
A couple of bits in this film that wasn't too great was the Killer himself, the villain of the piece was obvious the first time we meet him, no surprise or build up of the Who Done It? & a couple of little bits didn't make too much sense such as Stallone still carrying his Gun with him even though he's Suicidal? & later a guy goes around the outpost building looking for the killers tracks in the middle of a blizzard!!! Some small silly bits but nothing that distracts from an otherwise very entertaining Thriller. I've liked this film since the video days & always enjoyed it so much as simply a fun, late-night Cop Thriller, always thought it was ridiculously underrated & always was a fan of it & Still is my favourite Stallone performance.
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 & paranoid cops atmospheric & the paranoia is strong.
The winter setting works well & gets exciting when they become cut off & stranded.
I got vibes of Classic suspense films like John Carpenter's The Thing & the lonely isolated setting felt similar in away.
D-TOX is very good well made Thriller & actually one of my favourite Stallone films along with Cobra, Daylight, Demolition Man & Tango & Cash.
D-Tox is a great little serial killer Thriller with one of our childhood action stars in a different type of role.
Robert Patrick is one of my top 10 fave actors: Will Smith, Robert Patrick, Fred Ward, Tom Atkins, Roy Scheider, Robert Forster, Barry Pepper, Robert Davi, Nick Nolte & Dan Aykroyd.
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 & messed up, he's very good & really does a great tortured performance & i felt for his character alot & would rank this up there as definitely one of his best performances of his Career!!!
If any film of Stallone's is an underrated Gem then it's this one.
This is an ensemble flick with a bunch of great actors among the group with Robert Patrick, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Charles S. Dutton, Jeffrey Wright, Stephen Lang, Courtney B Vance, Robert Prosky, Christopher Fulford, Dina Meyer & Sean Patrick Flannery. Thats a hell of a good cast of actors & are all pretty solid in this serial killer Thriller.
Now another good thing about this slick, underrated Cop Thriller is the casting of Robert Patrick among the ensemble, this guy is so cool & is one of those intense & rugged actors that usually turns up in B-movies or in Big films but in a small role, anyway i love Patrick & been a big fan of his since the video days when he got my attention in AWESOME films such as Die Hard 2, T2, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Zero Tolerance, Cop Land & many more, Robert Patrick is a favourite of mine & i love to see him pop up in stuff, he also starred with Stallone in CopLand.
A couple of bits in this film that wasn't too great was the Killer himself, the villain of the piece was obvious the first time we meet him, no surprise or build up of the Who Done It? & a couple of little bits didn't make too much sense such as Stallone still carrying his Gun with him even though he's Suicidal? & later a guy goes around the outpost building looking for the killers tracks in the middle of a blizzard!!! Some small silly bits but nothing that distracts from an otherwise very entertaining Thriller. I've liked this film since the video days & always enjoyed it so much as simply a fun, late-night Cop Thriller, always thought it was ridiculously underrated & always was a fan of it & Still is my favourite Stallone performance.
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 & paranoid cops atmospheric & the paranoia is strong.
The winter setting works well & gets exciting when they become cut off & stranded.
I got vibes of Classic suspense films like John Carpenter's The Thing & the lonely isolated setting felt similar in away.
D-TOX is very good well made Thriller & actually one of my favourite Stallone films along with Cobra, Daylight, Demolition Man & Tango & Cash.
D-Tox is a great little serial killer Thriller with one of our childhood action stars in a different type of role.
Robert Patrick is one of my top 10 fave actors: Will Smith, Robert Patrick, Fred Ward, Tom Atkins, Roy Scheider, Robert Forster, Barry Pepper, Robert Davi, Nick Nolte & Dan Aykroyd.