STUDIO: The Weinstein Company/ Wingman Productions/ Tunnel Post LLC
RELEASE DATE: 7-8-2008
TOXIC revolves around a beautiful escaped mental patient Lucille. Her father is a powerful bad guy Van Sant (Tom Sizemore)
with a Tarot reading girlfriend Lena (Bai Ling). The father sends two tough guys Atoine and Sid (Danny Trejo and Corey Large)
to keep his daughter away from him. Anyone who helps Lucille ends up dead. He tells the guys to follow the bodies. Then
TOXIC has a story that splits it time between now and one year ago. Now resolves around Sid the bartender (at a strip club)
who has the hots for a fellow employee who doesn't want to lose her daughter and yet doesn't want to get back with her husband.
The bartender is haunted by Lucille. He starts to lose his mind. So TOXIC is a film with great direction and editing.
The big fault is the story is all over. It is very muddled. TOXIC can't decide what type of movie it is and decides to
throw in new twists that seem to come out of nowhere.
SPECIAL FEATURES: none except for previews before the main menu when the disc is loaded in. I wish TOXIC had an audio commentary
or director interview for Alan Pao to explain the story of TOXIC.
FINAL ANALYSIS: TOXIC has great cinematography and editing style. Too bad the story is a muddled mess.
this DVD review is (c)7-1-2008 David Blackwell and cannot be reprinted without permission. send all comments to lord_pragmagtic@hotmail.com
