Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Charles Dutton, Polly Walker, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Berenger, Christopher Fulford
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about D-Tox
D-TOX, based on a novel by Howard Swindle, was directed by Jim Gillespie in 2002.
FBI Agent Jake Malloy (Stallone) is in charge of a cop killer investigation. Nine policemen have died in six months and, this time, the killer wants to hurt Malloy bad and slaughters the detective's girlfriend. Three months later, Malloy has become a suicidal alcoholic and is brought to Kristofferson's rehab clinic lost in the Wyoming forests. There, in the company of a dozen policemen coming from the U.S., Canada and England, Malloy starts his therapy. But, like in Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians", the policemen are slaughtered one by one by a mysterious killer who'll turn out to be the one who killed Malloy's girlfriend.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of D-Tox
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 40% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- government investigator
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- bald
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- fat (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- killer
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
Forest?
Yes
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- impaled
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
