Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis:
Catherine Tramell causes the death of a footballer through drugs and driving and sinks her teeth into the psychiatrist assigned to assess her and who, it transpires, has weaknesses of his own to exploit.
Review:
Fifteen years on and an astonishing comeback for any actress, let alone one in her late forties, this is less of a whore than its predecessor but also a bit lacking in that post-Hitchcockian baroque splendour. Instead we have a very decently shot homegrown cop show, rather as if Cracker lost his self-control and professional standards and slept with a patient and murder suspect; hard to imagine on the small screen but somehow acceptable in the service of a sequel we all wanted to see. It's not without its attendant absurdities but offers some splendidly tortuous plotting to leave us wondering more than the first film whether in fact she isn't innocent of any crime after all...
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis:
Catherine Tramell causes the death of a footballer through drugs and driving and sinks her teeth into the psychiatrist assigned to assess her and who, it transpires, has weaknesses of his own to exploit.
Review:
Fifteen years on and an astonishing comeback for any actress, let alone one in her late forties, this is less of a whore than its predecessor but also a bit lacking in that post-Hitchcockian baroque splendour. Instead we have a very decently shot homegrown cop show, rather as if Cracker lost his self-control and professional standards and slept with a patient and murder suspect; hard to imagine on the small screen but somehow acceptable in the service of a sequel we all wanted to see. It's not without its attendant absurdities but offers some splendidly tortuous plotting to leave us wondering more than the first film whether in fact she isn't innocent of any crime after all...
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 114m
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling
Synopsis:
Catherine Tramell causes the death of a footballer through drugs and driving and sinks her teeth into the psychiatrist assigned to assess her and who, it transpires, has weaknesses of his own to exploit.
Review:
Fifteen years on and an astonishing comeback for any actress, let alone one in her late forties, this is less of a whore than its predecessor but also a bit lacking in that post-Hitchcockian baroque splendour. Instead we have a very decently shot homegrown cop show, rather as if Cracker lost his self-control and professional standards and slept with a patient and murder suspect; hard to imagine on the small screen but somehow acceptable in the service of a sequel we all wanted to see. It's not without its attendant absurdities but offers some splendidly tortuous plotting to leave us wondering more than the first film whether in fact she isn't innocent of any crime after all...