Fresh
As a stand-alone film, this doesn't work; but viewed through the prism of the original, it offers some twisted, self-conscious pleasures.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Basic Instinct 2
Everything interesting begins in the mind
2006 · 1h 56m · R
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Caton-Jones
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Basic Instinct 2
Overview
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Director and cast
- Michael Caton-Jones Director
- Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell
- David Morrissey as Michael Glass
- Charlotte Rampling as Milena Gardosh
- David Thewlis as Roy Washburn
- Stan Collymore as Kevin Franks
- Indira Varma as Denise Glass
- Heathcote Williams as Jakob Gerst
- Hugh Dancy as Adam Towers
- Terence Harvey as Henry Rose
- Jan Chappell as Solicitor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
6%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Stupefyingly lackluster.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Like many sequels this is actually a remake, and it suffers from the law of diminishing returns.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
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).
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
Rotten
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.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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