Poor Sharon Stone. She's still big; it's the erotic thrillers that got small.
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01/27/07
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
7 %
Reviews Counted: 145 Fresh: 10 Rotten:135 Average Rating: 3.1/10
Consensus:
One of the least-anticipated sequels of recent years, Basic Instinct 2 is a movie that falls squarely into so-bad-it's-good territory -- or perhaps, so-bad-it's-still-pretty-bad. Fourteen years after wielding an icepick to memorable effect, trashy crime novelist Catherine Tramell is back to wreck havoc on mesmerized guys -- to much diminished returns. Only the sheer ludicrousness of the plot keeps this one from being a total washout.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Synopsis: In BASIC INSTINCT 2, a sequel to the 1992 original, Sharon Stone resumes the role that first made her famous. Beautiful American author Catherine Tramell (Stone) is living in London when she is involved in a sexually charged car accident leading to the scandalous death of a famous British... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis, Hugh Dancy
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Screenwriter: Henry Bean
Producer: Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, Joe Eszterhas, Andrew G. Vagna, Mark Albela, Volker Shauz, Denise O'Dell
Composer: John Murphy
Screenwriter: Henry Bean
Producer: Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, Joe Eszterhas, Andrew G. Vagna, Mark Albela, Volker Shauz, Denise O'Dell
Composer: John Murphy
Reviews
Top Critic
This is psychoanalytic fable rewritten as pulp fiction. Perhaps that's why it's so ludicrously entertaining.
09/28/06
As a stand-alone film, this doesn’t work; but viewed through the prism of the original, it offers some twisted, self-conscious pleasures.
06/24/06
Top Critic
With her raunchy innuendo and near-parodic sexuality, Stone seems to be coming on as the Mae West of film noir.
05/06/06
Top Critic Top Critic
Morrissey's performance is much better than the film really deserves - he pulls off a complex blend of pride and barely suppressed rage whilst still remaining sympathetic.
05/06/06
jedan od rijetkih primjera kada je publika pokazala kako, za razliku od Hollywooda, ipak ima pojma o nekim stvarima
06/21/07
Sadly, nothing following lives up to the prurient promise of this sequence, as the film becomes a monotonously talky, gloomy affair.
03/01/07
...a script that is so full of cliche's that I actually knew the end of the film 10 minutes before it ended.
12/13/06
I won't say I didn't enjoy it; this is the kind of film that begs to be talked back to, that satisfies our highly developed taste for schadenfreude.
05/15/06
Michael Caton-Jones directs with bland disinterest, but Stone hams it up with the campy relish of a drag queen doing Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.
05/12/06
A pale shadow that is imminently unworthy of even a raised heartbeat.
05/06/06
It’s left to David Thewlis as a know-it-all cynical cop to walk away with the whole film. He brings a mischievousness and wit to a movie sorely lacking in both and offers a fine example of what this sequel should have been.
05/06/06
Ao tentar recriar a ambigüidade do original, revela só a fragilidade de seu roteiro, que, pela (falta de) qualidade, poderia ter sido escrito pela própria Catherine Tramell.
04/22/06
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