Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

aka: Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction

Thriller / Crime / Romance

1 hr. 54 min.

Sharon Stone returns as the crotch-revealing bisexual crime novelist Catherine Tramell in this sequel to the 1992 hit.

Rated R for strong sexuality, nudity, violence language and some drug content

Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones

Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis, Stan Collymore

Theatrical Release Date: 3/31/2006

Release Type: Wide

U.S. Box Office: $5,851,188

Video/DVD Release Date: 7/11/2006

Distributor: Sony Pictures

Country: Germany / Spain / UK / USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	4	...not good in any rational or defensible way, but not bad in irrational and indefensible ways.
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	4	Once the credits are done rolling it's a dour, enervated mystery, selling the old cat-and-mouse games.
E!	3	...a half lurid, half boring sequel that's about a decade too late to capitalize on whatever heat was generated back in the 1992 original.
filmcritic.com Joel Meares	3	...decidedly limp.
New York Post Kyle Smith	2	Botoxic.
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh	4	...awfully tame and lame.
Reel Brie Beazley	3	Everything about this movie is bad: the direction by Michael Caton-Jones; the acting; the lame screenplay; and the sex, which is explicit, but not sexy.
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez	3	...a total downer.
Rolling Stone Peter Travers	0	The laughs to be had in this deliciously awful sequel are all unintentional. A bummer for film buffs, but a ball for fans of the misbegotten.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	6	...isn't bad, exactly, but it lacks the entertaining vulgarity of the first film...
New York Times Manohla Dargis	1	...two hours of drift and sludge.
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano	3	Dead serious and stone idiotic, the only basic instinct in evidence here is desperation.
People Leah Rozen	4	...a streaming mess...
LA Weekly Ella Taylor	5	...Stone delivers her lines with slinky grace, but there’s no helping out a plot with as many doggedly transparent twists as this one.
Village Voice Dennis Lim	3	...a sadly anticlimactic sequel...
Onion AV Club Nathan Rabin	3	...as a showcase for Sharon Stone's physique, Basic Instinct 2 is a rousing success. In every other respect, it's a colossal failure.
Maxim Pete Hammond	2	Sure, she looks considerably younger than someone pushing 50, and the topless shots, however paltry, do hold up--thanks, plastic surgery!--but skip this one in theatres and wait for the director's cut version on DVD.
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer	5	Basically, it stinks.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	3.2
AVERAGE USER RATING (0 ratings)	-