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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 149
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 139

Unable to match the suspense and titilation of its predecessor, Basic Instinct 2 boasts a plot so ludicrous and predictable it borders on "so-bad-it's-good."

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 35

Unable to match the suspense and titilation of its predecessor, Basic Instinct 2 boasts a plot so ludicrous and predictable it borders on "so-bad-it's-good."

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When the mysterious death of a major athlete prompts Scotland Yard detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis) to order the investigation of best-selling crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), criminal psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is slowly drawn into Tramell's seductive world of lies and sexual intrigue in director Michael Caton-Jones belated sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1992 erotic thriller. Upon relocating from San Francisco to London, alluring crime novelist Tramell

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Romance, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Michael Caton-Jones

Written By: Henry Bean

In Theaters: Mar 31, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Jul 11, 2006

Box Office:$5.9M

MGM/UA

Stupefyingly lackluster.

April 21, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

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Like many sequels this is actually a remake, and it suffers from the law of diminishing returns.

April 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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The plot, already mired in nonsensical backstory, collapses with the late-inning introduction of a tired metafictional device (not to mention a wildly lunging Usual Suspects twist).

April 4, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Dennis Lim

Village Voice

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Basic Instinct 2 has a stylish look and a few sexy moments, but the plot goes from confusing to implausible to absolutely ludicrous in the final sequence.

April 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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Even the ice pick looks like it really doesn't want to be there.

March 31, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Peter Howell

Toronto Star

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The 1992 phenomenon was creepy, tense and sexually charged in a bold yet tawdry way. This sequel lacks even a shred of those elements.

March 31, 2006 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

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Silly, shock-pandering lines like that nearly sink the film to Showgirls level.

April 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix

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Tom Meek

Boston Phoenix

In spite of Sharon Stone's hearty encore performance as the ultimate femme fatale, "Basic Instinct 2" falls unbearably flat.

April 20, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Very graphic sequel. Brain cells could be lost.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

jedan od rijetkih primjera kada je publika pokazala kako, za razliku od Hollywooda, ipak ima pojma o nekim stvarima

June 21, 2007 Full Review Source: Index.hr

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Dragan Antulov

Index.hr

Sadly, nothing following lives up to the prurient promise of this sequence, as the film becomes a monotonously talky, gloomy affair.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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David Noh

Film Journal International

Poor Sharon Stone. She's still big; it's the erotic thrillers that got small.

January 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian [UK]

...a script that is so full of cliche's that I actually knew the end of the film 10 minutes before it ended.

December 13, 2006 Full Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

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Michael A. Smith

Nolan's Pop Culture Review Source: Nolan's Pop Culture Review

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

This is psychoanalytic fable rewritten as pulp fiction. Perhaps that's why it's so ludicrously entertaining.

September 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Sight and Sound

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Linda Ruth Williams

Sight and Sound

Instinct told me to run, but curiosity won out.

August 21, 2006 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

Included in the unrated DVD version are deleted scenes, "Between the Sheets: A look Inside the Making of the Film"; "Plus," never-before-scene bonus footage, and commentary from director Michael Caton-Jones; there's also a theatrical R-rated DVD.

July 11, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

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This is a stylish-looking film with not nearly enough substance, and even less if you remember the plot of the first Basic Instinct.

July 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

No, Basic Instinct 2 will not cure cancer, but it isn't trashy enough to give you gonorrhea.

June 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

As a stand-alone film, this doesn't work; but viewed through the prism of the original, it offers some twisted, self-conscious pleasures.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Nigel Floyd

Time Out

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.

May 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

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This film slightly surprised me, I'd held out very little hope for the sequel, having heard nothing good or bad about it and so I'd assume it to be a complete flop. Now I'm not saying it's to the contrary, but I did feel it had it's moments.I had enjoyed the original when it was released, even if more recent watches

July 27, 2006

Lady D'arbanville

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you would think with a poster like that, Sharon Stone would show her snatch again but instead you get old 45-year old boobs in a hot tub. not that i wanted to see her snootch anyway. i mean, i haven't seen the first one, and if i did i wouldn't care for it anyway cause chicks over 30 are just putrid, soggy, pieces of

July 8, 2009

Coxxie Mild Sauce

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