Apr 10
This is psychoanalytic fable rewritten as pulp fiction. Perhaps that’s why it’s so ludicrously entertaining. Basic Instinct 2 as a stand-alone cheap dvds, this doesn’t work; but viewed through the prism of the original, it offers some twisted, self-conscious pleasures. Stone doesn’t so much enter and leave the film of her own volition so much as she’s carted on and off like Hannibal Lecter, the difference being that she’d rather sit on your face than bite it off. If you’re trying to reinvigorate the art of the stylish thriller, the movie you come up with needs to be stylish and it needs to be thrilling. Basic Instinct 2, written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean and directed by Michael Caton-Jones, is neither.