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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
7/08
7/08:
I recall a time during summer camp, I, for reasons that were never made clear to me, was forced to participate in a game
at one o'clock in the morning when my group was supposed to go into the woods and search for other campers.
Of course, I got lost, having been fed up with the whole thing, and made my way back to the cabin to go back to sleep. It's
exactly how I felt when I saw Basic Instinct 2. The film brings out the worst of the past decade: boring thespians,
emotionless facial expressions, poor script, rubbish ending, and no defined purpose. I wondered the whole time
why the setting took place in London.
There's plenty of nudity, but Sharon Stone doesn't flash her beaver like she famously did in the original, not that it's
important anyway. Her character Catherine Tramell creates a maze for the psychologist and thereafter wins at the end. Yet why
am I supposed to care? Can't she do something mundane and calming like...knitting, doing crossword puzzles, or
bicycling?
At one point, the psychologist's girlfriend was engaged in rough sex, and then she disappeared afterwards. But there's no
explanation why. Because of the poor reviews, it means there will be no third part. Good riddance. I guess
Sharon Stone's career as an A-list actress, having suffered a massive brain hemorrhage in 2001, is now terminated.
All in all, there's no point in comparing Basic Instinct 2 to the original.