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 BASIC
INSTINCT
2
With
Sharon
Stone,
David
Morrissey,
David
Thewlis,
Charlotte
Rampling
Directed
by
Michael
Caton-Jones
Writer
Catherine
Tramell
(the
black
widow
vixen
from
writer
Joe
Esterhasz
and
director
Paul
Verhoeven’s
original
Basic
Instinct)
now
lives
in
London.
She
gets
reprimanded
by
the
authorities
when
a
drugged-up
footballer
dies
in
her
sports
car
when
she
prangs
it
into
the
river.
She
is
put
up
for
psychiatric
evaluation
and
she
starts
her
little
sexually
fuelled
game
with
the
hapless
doctor.
Secrets,
lies
and
deception
start
to
flow
(together
with
body
fluids
of
all
varieties).
Sexual
murders
seem
to
be
tied
to
the
doctor
(and
a
past
case),
his
ex-wife
(and
her
journalist
boyfriend),
the
nosy
detective,
and
of
course
our
Catherine.
Over-hammed
orgasmic
scenes
are
so
exaggerated
and
stylized
that
it
goes
from
erotic
to
ludicrous
(as
with
the
opening
‘car
speed-masturbation-crash
into
the
river’
sequence).
Sometimes
Stone’s
knowing
smirk
is
just
not
believable
anymore,
but
after
more
than
a
decade,
she’s
still
pretty
damn
tasty.
With
a
twist
or
two
to
be
expected,
this
doesn’t
touch
the
original,
but
is
worth
a
watch
to
see
where
they’re
heading
with
it.
PS.
Charlotte
Rampling
has
aged
gracefully
PSS.
This
is
quite
a
departure
from
director
Michael
Caton-Jones’
Doc
Hollywood!
/
He
also
made
Scandal
and
The
Jackal
3
/
B
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PB
1
2
3
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A
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B
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C
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