Product Description: Notorious crime novelist catherine tramnell is back & shes criminal psychologist dr michael glass deadliest challenge. With professional boundaries blurred by obsession dr glass is lured into a murderous web of lies & deceit & begins a torrid affair with tramell that takes him to the point of no return. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/25/2007 Starring: Sharon Stone David Morrissey Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Ur
Amazon.com: Despite its inevitable fate as a critically reviled box-office flop, Basic Instinct 2 sure has a funny way of holding your attention. It's not just Sharon Stone's trash-talk and occasional nudity that keeps you watching, but also the way she gamely earns every cent of her $14 million paycheck, vamping like a real pro in her second outing as mystery novelist and alleged serial killer Catherine Tramell. Now living in London, Catherine sets her lethal sights on Michael Glass (David Morrissey), the control-freak psychiatrist assigned to evaluate her as a risk-addicted suspect in the "accidental" killing of a star soccer player. Turns out Catherine's just getting started (or is she?), and that's bad news for Glass's ex-wife, a tabloid journalist, and the Scotland Yard detective (David Thewlis) who's desperate to put Catherine in jail. With plenty of sex, murder and salacious dialogue, BI2 is certainly never boring, especially with the morbid fascination of seeing the once formidable Stone torpedo her career in a sequel that took 14 years (and countless drafts of screenplays and at least one high-profile lawsuit) to bring to the screen. She's still impressively hot at age 47, prompting critic Roger Ebert to observe, "the Catherine Tramell role cannot be played well, but Sharon Stone can play it badly better than any other actress alive." So, while this ill-fated sequel falls just short of being a guilty pleasure (if only because Morrissey is no match for Michael Douglas in the 1992 original), it's enjoyably absurd and slickly produced, and the hot-tub scene is guaranteed to wear out the freeze-frame function on a lot of DVD players. For some viewers, that's reason enough for multiple viewings.--Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A really prdeictable loser of a movie
Sharon Stone, as the psychotic Catherine Trammel, isn't even sexy. She looks and acts like a 900 sex-talk liar. The party with all the weirdo freak writers in which some of them didn't even recognize Sharon ... Read More
Rating: - As bad as you'd think
It took a long time for Basic Instinct 2 to see the light of day, and now that it has, it's every bit as bad as you'd think it is. What made the first film such a guilty pleasure was Paul Verehoeven's slick ... Read More
Rating: - Ok not great
This movie is ok not for kids but I knew that. Follows the line of the first Basic Instinct movie nice ending.
Rating: - The Trailer Park Comes to Bloomsbury
There is something to be said for Michael Caton-Jones' "Basic Instinct 2", and that is that one man's trash is another man's treasure. In this turgid followup to Paul Verhoeven's original (and equally trashy) ... Read More
Rating: - DVD
Good price and fast service, I only but used DVDs now and save up to 50%, Great way to build a film library, and I have never been stuck with a dud. Will shop again and would recommend to anyone.
- A really prdeictable loser of a movie
- DVD