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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
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
The only real suspense in Basic Instinct 2 is whether Stone will or won't reprise the scene that she once absurdly claimed she was tricked into doing.
Top CriticBasic Instinct 2 is basically the same movie as its predecessor. Only there's no Michael Douglas. And the setting has changed from the United States to Europe.
Most sequels are unnecessary, and this one does nothing to break the pattern.
Top CriticBasic Instinct 2 seems aimed at two audiences: men in raincoats in dark theaters and graduate students in film studies.
But most of the conversation in the lobby will revolve around who designed SS's clothes and jewelry. That's the way Ms. Stone wants it, and that's the way it is.
Top CriticBasic Instinct 2 is an obvious attempt to revive a stalled acting career.
Praising her [Stone] for flaunting herself is like applauding George Foreman for climbing into another ring or TV commercial whenever someone holds out a paycheck.
Embarrassment, thy name is Basic Instinct 2.
Absurdly overheated and unforgivably dull, Basic Instinct 2 is the accidental comedy sensation of the year to date.
Surely they can't be serious. This is so bad it must be camp. Under heavy pancake makeup, Sharon Stone gives a bad Mae West imitation, a performance not to be missed by any camp-follower
Ludicrously, hilariously entertaining.
The rest of the film may be murky and dull, but physically, it's hard to take your eyes off Stone. She's absolutely stunning.
You may come out of the theater complaining how ridiculous it was, but you won't be bored.
The mysteries of Sharon Stone are long gone.
Stone's every line of dialogue, every gesture, every hussy lip smack screams 'I'm too sexy for this movie.' And it's often hilarious.
It doesn't know whether it wants to be a Skin-e-max soft core porno or an episode of a primetime cop drama. It's unfulfilling as neither and ends up as an awful hybrid: we'll call it CSI: Cleavageville. I take that back: CSI: Faux Cleavageville.
['Basic Instinct 2'] has to hold the record for the most times the 'f' word has been used, not as an expletive, but as an action verb.
To get to those shots of Stone's chest and thighs, however, the audience has to wait through a two-hour story that's so tedious that the audience may walk out before Stone eventually liberates herself from her clothing.
Numbingly dull when it isn't unintentionally laugh-out-loud funny, this pitiful sequel has almost none of the cheesy/sleazy appeal of the 1992 blockbuster. Michael Douglas stayed away, and so should you.
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