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Plot: When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychologist to get through to him.
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MCT:August 3, 2008Shallow and a too unbelievable, hollywood-esque story. Especially didn't like Cuba Gooding Jr's role and performance here...
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MCT:July 27, 2008
Wow, this was a really weird movie but it was so good. It was very intresting and it had powerful quotes and thoughts. Anthony Hopkins was a number one choice to play Ethan. It was very sad to see the gorillas killed and kept in cages but it had a powerful message about freedom. I like the guy who said that the lady with the "demon" in her, had a "demon" that looked that Sigourney Weaver. I liked when Ethan escaped at the end and went to the jungle to live with gorillas.
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MCT:May 30, 2008
It was ok. Intense and emotional, but typical wanna-be-different drama. Acceptable performances.
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MCT:May 23, 2008
Hopkins does a really great job here (as he often does) and I enjoyed the work done by Gooding and the rest of the cast as well.
The story also rings true with me. Hunanity can be so inhamane! -
MCT:April 25, 2008Not a bad movie. It's an interesting look at a man taken back to primitive behavior. It's a lot of psychology, just like Silence of the Lambs. Anthony Hopkins plays the role of a demented man living with gorillas well and this was back when Cuba Gooding Jr.'s career wasn't in the toilet so he was good too. His voice gets on my nerves though. Whatever. Still a good movie.
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MCT:April 23, 2008the psychological insights are brilliant and Hopkins had built a complex character like only he can!
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MCT:April 19, 2008
Anthony Hopkins, a caged, dangerous genius, an asylumed primatologist accused of murdering a pair of poachers in Rwanda two years after abandoning human existence to live among a clan of African mountain gorillas.
Most of the film takes place in prison therapy sessions, during which Gooding tries to draw out the man buried under Hopkins' animal instincts.
The first sign that this movie is going to be a let-down comes with the fact that this task is disappointingly easy. For a couple meetings, Hopkins just sits there looking feral with his unmanageable gray mane of split ends and his wild eyes, saying nothing. Very quickly and without much encouragement he becomes coherent and loquacious, narrating a lengthy but somehow still rushed series of flashbacks that recount his going gorilla and the events leading up to the murders.
Naturally, Gooding is pretty proud of himself at this point and thinks he's in control, but once his patient starts speaking, their relationship becomes a psychological battle, and -- as we know from "Silence of the Lambs" -- when you're playing mind games with an Anthony Hopkins character, you're gonna lose.
Even though it's peppered with logical loopholes and other inconsistencies (Maura Tierney, as Hopkins' daughter, is a bitter, pent-up chain smoker who turns practically cuddly in later scenes), had "Instinct" shaken off its Grisham-esque recipe, it might have been the movie these actors probably thought it would be when they signed on, several re-writes ago.
Slate | David Edelstein
The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department. -
MCT:March 12, 2008
Good movie which touches upon a real issue. The reality is that humans are betraying the trust of gorillas due to the big business of charcoal.
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MCT:February 28, 2008
here are two wonderfull actors,then the film is terrific i saw it and i like so much is a strong history and make to become aware consciiosness about the extintiion of gorillas
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MCT:January 31, 2008SIX OF MY TOP 6 ALL TIME FAV'S
THIS MOVIE IS BASED ON THE BOOK ISHMAEL BY DANIELLE QUINN
READ THE BOOK THEN WATCH THE MOVIE AGAIN
10 STARS
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MCT:January 22, 2008
I loved this movie only because I read "Ishmael" which inspired the philosophy behind it. Powerful for those who understand the meaning.
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MCT:November 26, 2007
Nice acting great cast nice music by danny elfman!! he's great is not about doing it for yourself is doing it for others without expecting anything in return that is rewarding!!!
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MCT:November 25, 2007
Good movie. When a noted anthropologist who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychologist to get through to him.
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MCT:November 9, 2007
"Ok Ethan. You asked me a question once, "What has you all tied up in knots when you wake up sweating in the middle of the night?" You still wanna know? I've been thinking about it, been thinking about it a lot. It's not the work, I love the work. I've always loved the work. It's the game. The game, Ethan. And I was so good at it. I made sure all the right people liked me. At night, I'd go through the checklist in my mind: Am I cool with Ben Hillard? Am I cool with Dr. Josephson? Am I cool with all the people who can help me? Am I cool with all the people who can hurt me? Nobody thought I was weak or a loser. There was nobody I was offending, nobody I loved. *That* game, Ethan. But guess what? You taught me how to live outside of the game. You taught me how to *live*. And you know what scares me even more? That I'm going back in. "Forgive me, Ben. Put me back in the game. I'll make you like me again. I'll do the work, I'll do *all* the work, just put me back in the game." And you wanna know, you wanna know the psychology behind this? Now, pay attention, cause I'm good at this. I'm trying not to say goodbye to you. I'm trying not to say I'll miss you. I'm trying to forget you. Ethan Powell, case closed. *Case closed*. Look at me..."
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MCT:September 11, 2007
i've wacthing the film for many times,it just find out what is humanity.the performance of Cuba Gooding Jr,Anthony Hopkins were fantastic.
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MCT:August 15, 2007
An interesting tale, a story of trust and psychology. Not a huge fan of Cuba Gooding Jr, but he didn't do a bad job in this role as the psychiatrist. Hopkins providing another good performance,
VERDICT: Certainly worth watching, not on your gonna watch over and over though -
MCT:August 4, 2007
I have just watched this film not knowing anything about it but as soon as I saw Anthony Hopkins I knew it was going to be a good film. It was a very deep and emotional film. I will certainly be out to buy this film.
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MCT:July 24, 2007
i loved this movie. first off whats not to love with anthony hopkins and cuba gooding plus the mountian gorillas
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