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.”
— Stephanie Zacharek, SLATE “For many people, the only reason to see Basic Instinct 2 is to find out if Stone uncrosses her legs again. She doesn?t.”
— Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL) “Instead of moving like an enchanting vision of lust, Stone stomps through every scene with the subtlety of a Clydesdale, and her hair looks like it was stolen off a Raggedy Ann doll”
— Willie Waffle, WAFFLEMOVIES.COM
“Basic Instinct 2 is basically the same movie as its predecessor. Only there’s no Michael Douglas. And the setting has changed from the United States to Europe.”
— Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
“Basic Instinct 2 would be a magnificent exercise in transcendental camp… were it not for the pleading, deluded look behind its leading lady’s ice-blue eyes.”
— Rob Vaux, FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM
“There’s nothing erotic or thrilling in this supposed erotic thriller, just a lot of talky filler that leads absolutely nowhere.”
— Joshua Tyler, CINEMABLEND.COM
“Usually when you want a movie to be so bad it’s funny, you can count on someone connected to the Basic Instinct franchise. Alas, they have let even their extremely forgiving audience down.”
— Fred Topel, ABOUT.COM
“There’s simple trash and enjoyable trash; this movie wants to be the latter, but alas it falls into the first category.”
— Frank Swietek, ONE GUY’S OPINION
“An utterly hilarious piece of camp trash that elicited more laughs from me than ‘She’s the Man,’ ‘Larry the Cable Guy’ and ‘Date Movie’ combined.”
— Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
“Numbingly dull when it isn’t unintentionally laugh-out-loud funny, this pitiful sequel has almost none of the cheesy/sleazy appeal of the 1992 blockbuster. Michael Douglas stayed away, and so should you.”
— James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
“Other than its deliriously trashy intro and a loopy twist ending that questions reality itself, Basic Instinct 2 is way too restrained in every sense.”
— Mike Russell, OREGONIAN
“The mysteries of Sharon Stone are long gone.”
— Audrey Rock-Richardson, TOOELE TRANSCRIPT-BULLETIN (UTAH) |
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 “Spatting one-liners and sucking on cigarettes, the vampy, campy Sharon Stone does Bette Davis proud in this reasonably fun but ultimately empty suspense/thriller. Proceed at your own risk!”
— Staci Layne Wilson, ABOUT.COM “It doesn’t know whether it wants to be a Skin-e-max soft core porno or an episode of a primetime cop drama. It’s unfulfilling as neither and ends up as an awful hybrid: we’ll call it CSI: Cleavageville. I take that back: CSI: Faux Cleavageville.”
— Mike Ward, RICHMOND.COM “Could be a career-killer of the most combustible variety.”
— Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
“The question on everyone’s mind is ‘Does she look good at age 48?’ Oh yeah…make no mistake, she does.”
— John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
“The signposts signalling the film’s raunchy direction are clear, and Stone (looking fabulously sultry in true Hollywood style) slips in and out of her clothes with disarming fervour … sequel tries to turn up the heat, but never reaches boiling point. “
— Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
“Praising her [Stone] for flaunting herself is like applauding George Foreman for climbing into another ring or TV commercial whenever someone holds out a paycheck.”
— Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
“Stone delivers her lines with slinky grace, but there?s no helping out a plot with as many doggedly transparent twists as this one.”
— Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
“While there was little doubt that the sequel would be the awful movie that it is, BI2 compounds the injury by, basically, taking forever to get to what little good, lurid stuff anyone coming to the movie wants to see.”
— Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
“The film’s hilarious intended subtitle, Risk Addiction, sadly didn’t make it to the release stage, but there are still enough variations of it in the final shooting script to make for a fun drinking game when you rent the DVD three weeks from now.”
— Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
“The rest of the film may be murky and dull, but physically, it’s hard to take your eyes off Stone. She’s absolutely stunning. “
— Diana Saenger, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
“Few expected Basic Instinct 2 to be very good, but no one expected it to be this boring.”
— Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
“In this erotic-free film, as the dead bodies pile up, nothing is more dead than the movie itself.”
— Steve Rhodes, INTERNET REVIEWS |
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