Truly bonkers, and perhaps something of a guilty pleasure.
02/08/08 02:18 PM
Basic Instinct (1992)
60 %
Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 24 Rotten:16 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Synopsis:
This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine's latest book... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leilani Sarelle
Reviews
Top Critic
Douglas and Stone are superb, and George Dzundza (as sidekick Gus) delivers another classic hard-boiled cameo.
01/26/06 03:16 AM
Top Critic Could we be ready to stop snickering about it and admit to its status as a modern classic?
02/16/03 08:46 AM
Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery.
02/08/08 02:17 PM
The worst things about Basic Instinct, though, are the explicit "love" scenes. They're supposed to contribute to a heady equation in which sex, violence and psychology are fused; instead, they're gratuitous, exploitative, and entirely unerotic.
02/08/08 02:16 PM
This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral.
02/08/08 02:15 PM
Top Critic
A lurid psychological thriller that's sexy, nasty and a lot of fun...And you were expecting subtlety from a film written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Paul Verhoeven?
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Comment
02/16/06 01:36 PM
Can any movie live up to its hype, first about the bidding war over the script ($3 million), then protests by gay activists about the stereotypical portrayal. Despite sleek visuals, this is a hollow erotic suspenser; Hitchcock on a very bad day.
12/03/05 11:30 AM
Shocking and effective but doesn't quite live up to all the hype.
01/01/04 07:14 PM
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