Instinct Reviews
January 1, 2000
[Hopkins and Gooding Jr.] keep Instinct afloat on its sea of simplisms through a succession of climaxes until at last it reaches its unavoidable ending.
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 1, 2000
Instinct, well, kind of stincts.
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 1, 2000
Largely predictable and tiresome!
Original Score: 2.5/5
January 1, 2000
Absent the two superlative performances, there is nothing to recommend the picture.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
January 1, 2000
Heavy on formula and lean on revelation.
January 1, 2000
It's as though the filmmakers got spooked by the very primal scream that would make this movie soar.
Original Score: 2/5
January 1, 2000
Subtlety is not one of Jon Turteltaub's strong suits.
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 4/10
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
January 1, 2000
Original Score: 2.5/4
January 1, 2000
A moribund, noisome redux of any disposable prison movie you care to remember.
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 3/10
January 1, 2000
Instinct" is a marketing hook attempting to pass itself off as a movie.
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| Original Score: D
January 1, 2000
There's enough triumph-of-the-human-spirit twaddle drifting through this movie to smother those precious rainforests.
January 1, 2000
Instinct is the second one in a row that Gooding lifts out of mediocrity by the sheer force of his talent, intelligence and personality.
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| Original Score: 2/4
January 1, 2000
If there's anything worse than a movie hammered together out of pieces of bad screenplays, it's a movie made from the scraps of good ones.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
January 1, 2000
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
January 1, 2000
Instinct drags along like Keyser Soze's gimpy leg, stopping only to feature a few bad cliches.