One of the worst movies I have ever seen. Not sure why I kept watching...

Just watched it because of Sharon

sharon stone is a horrible actress-she should just do porn

Basic Instinct 2 deserves a much better rating than the ones given by critics. Obviously there are a lot of politics behind the scenes going on. A plausible reason could be even the silly fact that the location was changed from the USA to London. Who knows. But the movie is definitely a very well crafted sequel to the original. Sharon Stone's Catherine is true to the character from 1992. The cinematography and locations presented to the viewer are just beautiful. The plot is intriguing, never boring and up to the final moment captivating. The soundtrack is dangerously sexy. I can only recommend this film. It's a worthy sequel that even made me wish for a third part.

Surprised at the immense number of low ratings for this sequel. Sharon Stone did much the same as the original. The male leads are easily manipulated by her character which allows for an ending I'm still trying to understand. Overall, not as a bad as rated on Rotten Tomatoes. Just not amazing either.

The plot was silly but the erotic part was darned good. SPOILER: Our heroine is driving a shrink crazy by teasing him sexually and leading him on about facts in murder cases. Any shrink worth her/his salt can't be so obviously manipulated by a psychopath.

Major let down from the first. Poor writing. Fairly predictable.

I don't get the exaggerated negative reception on this movie. I understand it may have come as a bit of a shock due to the ostensible deterioration in contrast with its prequel, and it indeed is not the same as a picture with Michael Douglas in it, but there's still Sharon Stone, who gives another good performance. The direction is not so bad either. If not compared with the original, Basic Instict 2 is a mediocre movie which would completely work as a standalone. Among the negative things would be the excessive addition of sex scenes to fill in time, taking away the exuberance of a sex scene in a movie; we can understand the promiscuity of the protagonist/villain without all that. Another negative thing would be the ending; perhaps the producers were trying to leave a door open for a third movie, who knows? To wrap it up, I've seen my fair share of movies I couldn't make it through, but I can't say Basic Instinct 2 is one of them. It's a very normal movie, but it's not THAT bad. I mean 6%? Really?

You may notice that so many of the sequels we've covered this week are past their expiration date. By that, I mean the time to make a sequel to Basic Instinct was a few years after that one came out in 1992, not in 2006. You may also remember that so many of these movies are troubled production. Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction is no different. MGM had planned this movie to come out in 2002 — still late, but somewhat better — but then decided they had no interest in making the movie. That's when lead actress Sharon Stone filed a lawsuit claiming she was guaranteed at least $14 million for her commitment to the sequel, even if the movie never got made and as much as 15% of gross receipts if the film were released. By 2004, the lawsuit was settled and director Michael Caton-Jones (Doc Hollywood, The Jackal, Memphis Belle) got the job. He was broke and needed to make a movie, but called making this movie a "poisoned chalice" and said that "It was horrible. And I knew before I started that it wasn't going to be a particularly good film. Which is a very, very painful thing." The movie starts in London with novelist and possible serial killer Catherine Tramell (Stone) using a passed out soccer player's hand to get herself off while speeding through the streets, finally crashing into the Thames river. It was at this point that I began laughing uncontrollably as the athlete gazes upon Tramell like she's some kind of vision and then drowns while she swims away. It turns out that the soccer star was all pilled up and couldn't even move, but Scotland Yard is unable to make any charges stick. But she has to report to court ordered sessions with Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey), who she of courses beds and starts writing about for her new novel, a story in which real people all around them are being killed in both prose and real-life ways. Unlike the original movie, which seems to only hint at the fact that Tramell is a killer or can manipulate any man or woman into doing what she wants, in this one it's beyond obvious and there's even a square up reel at the end showing all the murders and how she talked Glass into it. I kind of love the reasons why no man was good enough for this movie. Michael Douglas? Too old. Robert Downey Jr.? Possession charges. Kurt Russell? Didn't want to strip down. Pierce Brosnan? Didn't like the sleaze. Bruce Greenwood? Potential actor strike. Rupert Everett? Calling a pervert who American audiences wouldn't accept by the MGM CEO. And Benjamin Bratt? Sharon Stone didn't think he was a good actor. Let that one set in. Remember when Nigel Tufnel confusingly asked, "What's wrong with being sexy?" I kept hearing that same question throughout this movie but it's just a cavalcade of shocking scenes that by 2006 were no longer shocking. This is the kind of movie that demanded to be made by someone demented, someone willing to tell Sharon Stone that she'd have to dress like a cat and urinate in a litter box on camera or fart into jars and sell them to people if she wanted to shock someone. Instead, her scene of knowingly looking into another man's eyes while engaging in an orgy is positively quaint. It's like finding out your mom's best friend is on Fetlife. You're not all that surprised and you really don't want to know the details or see any pictures, but you can be happy for her and wish her well. Speaking of that, Stone wanted to make a third one and even offered to direct. Please make this happen.

Forget lust and pleasure, apparently the most basic instinct is sheer unremitting boredom.

Jeff Barnes 1/25/21 Basic Instinct 2 Review Basic Instinct 2 has an intriguing premise, but it ends up being garbage because it's not executed well. It's: pointless, confusing, cliched, and implausible. The plot of the film seems to have no point and it comes across as cliched by borrowing from its predecessor excessively. In Basic Instinct 2 novelist Catherine Tramell ends up getting in trouble with the law again when she's suspected to have killed a sports star. This results in the London police department appointing a shrink named Michael Glass to evaluate and analyze her. Law enforcement hires psychiatrist Michael Glass to evaluate Catherine because Catherine requested to get out on bail. Glass evaluates Tramell. Michael didn't inform to the police that Catherine may be a murderer until the near the end of the film. He feels that she's going to kill another psychiatrist named Milena. He clearly could have done this earlier because there was a lot of evidence or indication that she's a murderer or possibly a murderer . There's a moment where Glass sees a reporter named Adam Towers murdered and he sees a cigarette lighter that looks exactly like the one he saw Catherine with earlier . In another scene he sees a man named Richard Pepper with a belt around his neck and with his pants down after he died. Glass at the murder scene sees drugs that he found out that Catherine had earlier, and he defends Catherine by saying we don't know if she did it . There was also a time when Catherine choked him with a belt during sex, and all this proves is that he clearly could have reported her to the authorities earlier. The fact that he defends her so long doesn't make sense especially since one of his colleagues named Milena calls him out on it. The way in which Catherine is found out to be a murderer seems implausible because It leads up to Catherine identifying herself as the murderer which is highly unlikely to happen. Catherine gives Michael a disc that contains a copy of her book called The Analyst. As he reads it, he suspects that Catherine is on her way to murder another psychiatrist named Milena. Catherine is pretty stupid for giving Michael a disc that contains a copy of her book. It results in him calling the authorities on her since a murder is described in her book . She's announcing herself as the killer, which is ironic considering she said in the first film "I would be pretty stupid to write about killing and to kill someone the exact way I described it in my book I would be announcing myself as the killer ." The film also obtains too much material from its predecessor Basic Instinct so much that it comes across as more of a remake than a sequel. Some examples are when Catherine lights up a cigarette during the evaluation scene and she's told she's not allowed to smoke during the evaluation, which is reminiscent of the interrogation scene in the first film where she's also told not to smoke, and you think thank god she didn't say "what are you gonna do charge me with smoking?" like she said in the first film when she was told not to smoke. Despite all of these flaws I still am recommending Basic Instinct 2 if you want to be indulged with badness and amazingly impressed with how poorly it was made but if you want something with good or better quality, I suggest watching its predecessor Basic Instinct instead.

Lethal weapon Catherine Tramell is back with a sequel to the 1992 hit noir film Basic Instinct. Years later, the sexy blonde viper (Sharon Stone) lands in London where she pays daily visits to Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) and once again plays a series of mind tricks with him. Dr. Glass is left with conflict between having sexual relations with her and arresting her for the murders of Adam Towers (Hugh Dancy), Denise (Indira Varma), and Roy Washburn (David Thewlis). Despite having the similar plot, this movie holds accountable for some of the silliest moments in the series. Unlike the previous film where she mostly used an ice pick to murder her victims, in Basic Instinct 2, Catherine drives over 100 mph in a car with Kevin (Stan Collymore) masturbating her and drowns the car into the Thames. This over-the-top murder method might fit more in a parody of the first movie and makes her seem like a sleazy B-movie villain. Furthermore, how nobody in Scotland Yard can be immediately suspicious about her and arrest her after she killed Kevin is anybody's case. Even the ending was a bit cheap and hokey, with Dr. Glass getting arrested and taken to a mental ward. Instead of killing him like she did in the last film, she leaves him her bestseller and some more predatory manipulation. Basic Instinct 2 is nothing more than a lame sequel with very little suspense and not much erotic undercurrent. (1 ½ Chinese Dominatrices out of 5)

Sharon Stone needed a paycheck. That's the only conceivable reason why this film was made.

Parece que quisieron hacer todo mal, David Morrissey actúa sin ganas de vivir y que pareciera lo obligaron a punta de pistola a decir sus líneas y el es lo único rescatable de la pelicula, bueno y la calidad visual.

This was also a nice Movie. Many years after Basic Instinct 1, Sharon Stone is still beauty. She is very sexy...

Not near as good as the original but entertaining in its own right.

I guess sequels are remakes of a second and third kind... unimpressive...

I love this movie! I dont know why it gets such a bad rap

should never have been made

a big mistake to create a sequel out of the known blockbuster.