| Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Sharon Stone |
Catherine Tramell
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| David Morrissey |
Dr. Michael Glass
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| Charlotte Rampling |
Dr. Milena Gardosh
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| David Thewlis |
Det. Supt. Roy Washburn
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| Hugh Dancy |
Adam Towers
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| Indira Varma |
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| Kata Dobo |
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| Stan Collymore |
Kevin Franks
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| Neil Maskell |
Det. Ferguson
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| Jan Chappell |
Solicitor
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| Terence Harvey |
Henry Rose
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| Ellen Thomas |
Prosecutor
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| Plot |
| 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 |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Crime; Drama; Mystery; Thriller |
| Director |
Michael Caton-Jones |
| Producer |
Moritz Borman; Mario Kassar |
| Writer |
Leora Barish; Henry Bean |
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| Country |
Germany
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
Suitable for 18 years and over |
| Running Time |
114 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
2006 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
195 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
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| Product Details |
| Edition |
Uncut Version |
| Region |
 2 |
| UPC (Barcode) |
5017239193835 |
| Release Date |
07/08/2006 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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