But this time around, Stone portrays Catherine Tramell more like a desperate old floozy than a take-no-prisoners man-eater, and there's no doubt she's the evil one -- which takes almost all the fun out of it.
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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
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Reviews Counted:147
Fresh:10
Rotten:137
Average Rating:3.1/10
Consensus: 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."
Theatrical Release:Mar 31, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $5,851,188
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... [More]
Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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Reviews for Basic Instinct 2
It is said that the reason there were so many years between the first BASIC INSTINCT and its sequel is that Sharon Stone was waiting for just the right script. . . She didn't wait long enough.
04/01/06
In pretty short order, the entire film goes off course and sinks, taking its lead actress with it.
04/06/06
Basically predictable.
04/04/06
The mysteries of Sharon Stone are long gone.
03/31/06
While there was little doubt that the sequel would be the awful movie that it is, BI2 compounds the injury by, basically, taking forever to get to what little good, lurid stuff anyone coming to the movie wants to see.
03/31/06
Campy melodrama fails to hold any interest 14 years later.
03/31/06
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11/20/08
Everything about this movie is bad.
05/06/06
Stone's performance is so deliriously over the top that it turns almost every line she speaks into high camp.
03/30/06
Top CriticUsing the same basic plot as 1992's original, BI2 feels less like a sequel than a remake whose shelf life has expired.
03/31/06
Top CriticDead serious and stone idiotic, the only basic instinct in evidence here is desperation.
03/30/06
Top CriticOf all the things Basic Instinct 2 threatened to be -- titillating, cheeky, outrageous -- who would have thought it would turn out boring?
03/31/06
Ms. Stone's character is bad, but sexy. The movie wants to be sexy, but it's mostly just bad.
04/02/06
Basic Instinct 2 is something the original never was -- boring...An obvious front-runner for the 2006 Razzies and Stinkers.
03/28/06
The 1992 phenomenon was creepy, tense and sexually charged in a bold yet tawdry way. This sequel lacks even a shred of those elements.
03/31/06
Going to go down in history as not only one of the worst sequels of all time, but also one of the worst films of all time. Come video, it may just have an 'Alan Smithee' credit festooned to its title sequence.
03/23/06
In spite of Sharon Stone's hearty encore performance as the ultimate femme fatale, "Basic Instinct 2" falls unbearably flat.
04/20/09
Basic Instinct 2 is as dull as a blunt ice pick, watering down the original film's knockout cocktail of kinky sex and bloody murder into a timid, tepid thriller.
03/30/06
She's the Freddy Krueger of this two-film franchise. The fact that a middle-aged woman serves this function, and that the money shot is not some hideous-prosthetic-face reveal but a look at Stone's flawless breasts in a Jacuzzi, makes a tired point: in 20
03/31/06
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