The movie is very campy, but strangely, not very much fun.
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03/31/06
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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
The film's hilarious intended subtitle, Risk Addiction, sadly didn't make it to the release stage, but there are still enough variations of it in the final shooting script to make for a fun drinking game when you rent the DVD three weeks from now.
03/31/06
But the movie is a baroque little mystery of so little mystery or consequence that you're literally sitting there waiting for the next full body cavity search.
03/31/06
Other than its deliriously trashy intro and a loopy twist ending that questions reality itself, Basic Instinct 2 is way too restrained in every sense.
03/31/06
At this point, there are inflatable toys that are livelier than Stone, but how can you tell the difference? Basic Instinct 2 is not an erotic thriller. It's taxidermy.
03/31/06
Top CriticStone chews on the scenery, and a few co-stars, in a ferociously over-the-top performance that almost makes the silliness worthwhile.
03/31/06
As with the first film, BI2 abounds with red herrings and misdirection, and comes up with an equally ambiguous Did she or didn't she? ending. But there are problems here beyond its staleness.
03/31/06
Top CriticFew expected Basic Instinct 2 to be very good, but no one expected it to be this boring.
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
BI2 should have been a gloriously excessive collision between the lurid and the ludicrous.
03/31/06
Basic Instinct 2 is trashy and stupid, and not really in a fun sort of way.
03/31/06
Using 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 CriticThe only real intrigue comes in the film's risky flirtation with high camp.
03/31/06
Top CriticThe original movie lacked sense, but it did possess that sizzle. This one has neither.
03/31/06
This movie rocks ... by boldly embracing the preposterousness at the core of its story right away, and then moving on to more important things like ultra-nasty sex [and] hyper-lurid dialogue.
03/31/06
Sure, the old broad looks pretty good in the film, but who wouldn't with fake boobs and a lacquer finish of make-up an inch thick?
03/31/06
Campy melodrama fails to hold any interest 14 years later.
03/31/06
If Paul Verhoeven's film was a potent if hard to swallow sex-and-blood pop cocktail, this London-set sequel is a cup of thin, tepid tea.
03/31/06
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.
03/31/06
In the end, this is a movie that makes the original Basic Instinct look good. And in a way, that's quite a feat.
03/31/06
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