Basic Instinct 2

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Basic Instinct 2

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Basic Instinct 2

Andre Schneider, Anne Caillon, Charlotte Rampling, David Morrissey, David Thewlis

Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Glass to evaluate her. Although, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is en...( read more  read more... )tranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.

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  • Collegekid
    March 20, 2009
    Collegekid
    sorry I bought this.
  • stopitgoaway
    October 7, 2008
    stopitgoaway
    It's hard to believe, after waiting 14 years, we wind up with this piece of cinematic garbage. The original was a high impact, dark thriller that achieved "cult" status demonstrating the fine art of cinema as directed by Paul Verhoeven. This film adds nothing, delivers nothing, a...( read more)nd ultimately winds up in the big box of failed sequels.

    The opening sequence could have triggered an intriguing set of plot developments using a considerably talented and able cast. Unfortunately we are treated to a 90 minute dissertation in the self-indulgent life of Catherine Tramell... or is it Sharon Stone. Possibly a copulation of both.

    If the desire is too see a continuation of the sensually provocative stying of sex as in "B.S.1", forget it. You wind up with soft-porn boredom which ultimately upholds the old adage that a woman can be more alluring in clothes than out of them. It's interesting to note that the wonderful Charlotte Rampling was romping around in her skivvies, via the 1966 GEORGY GIRL, when Ms. Stone was only 8 years old. A very talented actress and quite adept at holding her own even here.

    If you're a true cinema fan then you must see this film and judge it using your own rating system. If not, you might as well wait for the DVD release in the "rated" version, "unrated" version, "collectors" edition, or "ultimate" version, and perhaps in another 14 years we will be saturated with news of "Basic Instinct 3" at which point Ms. Stone will be 62 years old and nobody will really care.
  • Deano78
    August 31, 2008
    Deano78
    Not a bad sequel considered it was torn apart by critics. Doesn't quite have the same steaminess of the original or quite as good a plot. However if you are a fan of thrillers you should enjoy the little twists in this. Also shows off some of London for a change.
  • rebvodka042099
    June 17, 2008
    rebvodka042099
    Like the first one wasn't enough
  • groaningbitch
    June 3, 2008
    groaningbitch
    apparently "basic instint2" is far from its ancestor, a legend built by the trio of michael douglas, paul verhoeven and of course sharon stone. but in a way, it is slightly underrated. most people overlook one thing: it is a campy parody of the original basic instinct despite cam...( read more)piness is not what ambitious sharon stone expects from her cinematic comeback.

    the story goes like this: catherine trammel (stone) is the criminal novelist who lives on verge of adrenal stimulations of blood-thirsty promiscuity. now she is accused of intentionally drowning a black sportsman inside the car while they're having sex. to rinse off her suspicious spot, she's got to consult a psychiatrist for her mental diagnosis. but now she is entrapping her psychiatrist into a snare of murders and jealousy. spoiler: she maliciously drives him into schizod insanity.

    first of all, none of the characters in "basic instint 2" are realistic in flesh and blood, the most contrived charater is undoubtedly stone's catherine trammel who could survive from a high-speed automobile crash while she is having orgasm with a stoned black sportsman. and her mere comment to the police interrogation would be "oh! i'm so traumatized that i'm afraid i can't cum!" which is also an outrageous one-liner with the almighty witch attitude. second of all, the psychiatrist played by david morrissey is wimpish and easy to manipulate. let's put it this way, morrissey is no volcanically masculine michael douglas (when he was young) to emulate a burgeoning fresh-faced sharon stone (again, when she was young!) what's the fun to watch a gender guerilla when you're already aware who's gonna win? in the original, you cannot help but wonder if the dubious hard-boiled copper could tame this snobbish tramp in the end, and their sex looks thrilling with titilating animosity. but now morrissey's psychiatrist is a masturbator who peeks at trammel's picture while he's having intercourse. laughable? i guess so.

    it is a dreadfully tiresome caricature of feminism, and it also reflects men's misogynism toward the self-conceited blonde who is mannishly castrative, destined to scatter doom upon men. and her victim is also the grotesque of such fatal attractions, broadcasting the cliche that the evil blonde woman is not to be trusted.

    in the original, stone flashes her crotch for a second while her hair is combed behind with lofty poise under a white robe, lighting off a cigarette. that is a stylistically cool image of dominatrix. undeniably verhoeven chooses style over substance, but at least it's a sheer icy-cold style with higher class. now in its inferior sequel, stone's wardrobe seems like being inspired by samatha in "sex and the city", the urbanite sex-hungry tigress looks with the sluttish bang despite stone still remains physically attractive in her middle age. but the sexuality is rendered tastelessly blatant without a bit of subtlety that you could sense while she opens her crotch (again!) behind the chair, uttering crass lines like i know you wanna do me, and i may wanna do you, too.

    eventually "basic instinct 2" also exploits the frequently devised plot gimmick in contemporary cinema when scriptors run out of ideas to write: schizophreniac. ignore its obivious flaws and appreciate them as the camp, "basic instinct 2" would be an entertaining trash novel you read to kill time in the airport, a classic CAMP.
  • roromendut
    December 26, 2009
    roromendut
    Sebenernya gue udah ngantuk banget buat bikin review ini film, tapi berhubung ada yang merequest ya sudahlah, gue usahakan untuk menulis reviewnya. Setelah perdebatan yang seru dengan temen gue antara nonton Omen dan Basic Instinct 2. Akhirnya kami memutuskan untuk menonton Basic...( read more) Instinct 2, dengan alasan jam tayangnya lebih duluan, jadi bisa kelar lebih cepet. Otomatis kalo abis nonton laper masih ada tempat jual makanan yang buka.

    Opening film ini dimulai dari adegan Catherine Tramell (Sharone Stone) nyetir mobil dengan kecepatan tinggi, di sebelahnya ada cowo rada2 teler. Mereka pun melakukan hal-hal yang hanya layak dilakukan orang dewasa.. he he he? Waktu tangan si cowo lagi sibuk dicelap-celup ke bagian pribadi Tramell dan si Tramell mencapai orgasme, mobil jadi ga terkendali, nabrak kaca (yah film maker hollywood selalu mendramatisir adegan kecelakaan mobil dengan cara mobil ngebut nabrak etalase toko yang terbuat dari kaca. Biar bunyi krompyang kali yah?) trus melaju sampe nyebur ke laut.

    Di laut, Tramell berusaha nyelametin cowo teler itu, tapi ga berhasil. Sehingga dia cuma menyelamatkan diri sendiri, namun dia malah dijadikan tersangka pembunuh si cowo teler itu yang ternyata seorang pemain bola.. Mudah-mudahan bukan atlit World Cup 2006 ini yah :p

    Film ini lebih ke arah manipulating mind. Di mana sampai akhir film ini pun kita ga pernah tau siapa pembunuh dari serangkaian orang-orang yang mati di sekitar kehidupan Tramell. Bisa jadi Tramell memang si pembunuhnya atau detektif Roy Washburn.
    Tramell adalah seorang novelist, yang dapat memanipulasi pikiran orang-orang di sekitarnya agar bisa berlaku seperti yang dia inginkan dan mempengaruhi orang-orang agar percaya apa yang Tramell ingin agar orang-orang percaya. Korban paling parah yang sampai harus masuk rumah sakit jiwa justru adalah psikiaternya sendiri, Kevin Franks.

    Awalnya Kevin Franks berlaku sebagai analis Tramell, namun justru Tramell yang berhasil mengorek kehidupan Franks dan mempengaruhi pikiran Franks. Dimulai dari bagaimana keinginan-keinginan hasrat seksualnya dilampiaskan (duh udah kaya? kambing yak). Dari situ mulai deh orang-orang di sekitar Tramell dan Frank pada tewas satu per satu. Dimulai dari Adam Towers, reporter majalah yang pernah mengulas mengenai detektif Washburn tapi disamarkan jadi Detektif X (mungkin biar ga ada yang komplen kaya? yg pada kebakaran jenggot waktu baca blog gue sebelum nama-nama disensor) yang diduga sering membuat barang bukti palsu kalau lagi benar-benar berkeinginan menjerumuskan si penjahat. Di situ penonton dibiarkan menabak-nebak pelakunya, antara:

    - Mantan Istri Frank, Denise Glass, yang memang memiliki affair dengan Towers
    - Frank, yang akan dijadikan bahan tulisan Towers, mengenai perlindungannya terhadap Chevas, penjahat yang merangkap pasiennya.
    - Tramell, yang ternyata juga punya affair dengan Towers
    - Roy Washburn, yang diduga memiliki dendam atas tulisan Towers

    Sampai jatuh korban berikutnya, yaitu Denise Glass yang mati di kamar mandi umum, pada kasus ini Frank hampir jadi tersangka. Karena motifnya kuat, dibuat kondisi Frank ribut dengan Glass di tempat umum, kondisi seolah-olah Glass ingin melaporkan Frank karena diduga pernah melakukan kesaksian palsu di pengadilan? pokoknya dibuat sedemikian rupa sehingga orang bisa berprasangka bahwa Frank memang pelakunya (duh kaya? siapa yah, yg pinter banget merancang kondisi seperti ini :-?:-?)

    Duh gue ngantuk banget nih.. kayaknya reviewnya ga sampe selesai deh.. intinya sih apa pun yang diomongkan Tramell serba membingungkan, karena dia bisa bikin orang yakin dan melakukan apa yang dia mau. Sampe Frank sendiri sangsi mana yang harus dia percaya Washburn atau Tramell. Sampai waktu Frank udah masuk RSJ, Tramell ngunjungin, dan berhasil memanipulasi pikiran Frank lagi, bahwa Frank yang melakukan pembunuhan itu semua. Jadi binun sendiri deh si Frank itu.

    Tramell membuat kisah pembunuhan itu di novelnya yang berjudul the analyst.

    Udah ah kelar.. walaupun gantung?

    Sengegantung waktu Frank lagi berbuat sama Michelle Broadwin, ingin mempraktekan cara berbuat yang ada di novelnya Tramell, tiba-tiba mantan isti Frank telpon, ngasih tau kalo Towers terbunuh?

    Yah emang rada maksa sih ceritanya.. seakan-akan semua affair nyambung, semua pembunuhan nyambung motifnya, yah ga jauh beda deh sama hidup kita.. sesuatu yang seolah-olah ga berkaitan jadi serba nyambung. Orang ngirim message ga mutu yang bikin gue mual, malah bisa manipulasi pikiran orang lain dan malah jadi orang yang dibela abis-abisan sampe ngorbanin pasangan sendiri? yah something like that lah?

    Saking memuakkannya gue muntah lagi sampai rumah setelah nonton film ini, mengingatkan mualnya gue waktu baca message itu? kok bisa ya orang memanipulasi pikiran orang lain dengan mudahnya?
  • Khuloos
    December 15, 2009
    Khuloos
    Very Hot Seducing Sexy Thriller Movie.
  • venkienamor
    November 18, 2009
    venkienamor
    Fabulous movie to be watched
  • ilovetheeightiesforever
    November 15, 2009
    ilovetheeightiesforever
    it sucked compared to the first movie
  • jackgbowman
    October 28, 2009
    jackgbowman
    weak compared to the intense original
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