Plot
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.

Release Year: 2006

Rating: 3.9/10 (20,250 voted)

Critic's Score: 26/100

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Stars: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis

Storyline
Crime novelist Catherine Tramell is living in London, and becomes the center of police investigation (yet again) when her football player boyfriend drowns in a car accident and it is revealed that he was already dead because of a drug overdose before Tramell drove the car into water. Police psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Glass is called for examining Tramell, and is intrigued by the seductive and manipulative woman. On the other hand , his friend Det. Roy Washburn is sure Tramell is guilty. Tramell asks Glass to treat her for her 'risk addiction' problem, and with each therapy session , Glass gets more and more suspicious about her intentions. As more and more murders are committed, including that of Glass's ex-wife, Glass becomes obsessed with proving Tramell's guilt even though the evidence is contradictory .

Writers: Leora Barish, Henry Bean

Cast:
Stan Collymore - Kevin Franks
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell
Neil Maskell - Detective Ferguson
David Thewlis - Det. Roy Washburn
Jan Chappell - Solicitor
David Morrissey - Michael Glass
Terence Harvey - Henry Rose
Hugh Dancy - Adam Towers
Ellen Thomas - Prosecutor
Mark Sangster - Court Reporter One
Tim Berrington - Court Reporter Two
Indira Varma - Denise Glass
Charlotte Rampling - Milena Gardosh
Heathcote Williams - Jakob Gerst
Flora Montgomery - Michelle Broadwin

Taglines: Everything interesting begins in the mind.

Official Website: Sony Pictures [United States] |

Release Date: 31 March 2006

Filming Locations: Berwick Street, Soho, London, England, UK

Box Office Details

Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $3,201,420 (USA) (2 April 2006)

Gross: $38,509,330 (Worldwide) (25 September 2006)

Runtime: 114 min  | 120 min (unrated extended cut)

Trivia:
The setting was changed from New York to London. Harrison Ford, Viggo Mortensen, Benicio Del Toro, and Aaron Eckhart were in the running for the lead when the film was initially set in the U.S.A. Jude Law, Ewan McGregor and Gabriel Byrne were nominated after the move. Javier Bardem was also considered at some point.

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: As Dr. Michael Glass is investigating the article entitled "Detective X" by Adam Towers about Roy Washburn, under the sub-headline of Witness Intimidation the article reads "A perfectly good movie script could be made from the information I gleaned in the sewers and alleys and fire escapes of the seedier parts of town." When he reads on to the next sub-headline of the article "Falsifying Evidence" the exact same passage has been repeated: "A perfectly good movie script could be made from the information I gleaned in the sewers and alleys and fire escapes of the seedier parts of town." Additionally, the sentence directly preceding the second sub-headline is incomplete. It reads "Our current political leader" (No punctuation)

Quotes:
Dr. Michael Glass: I'm not the one on trial for murder.
Catherine Tramell: Not yet.

Painfully Bad

Rating: 1/10

Well, I saw this movie yesterday and it's - unfortunately - worse than you could think. First of all the plot is idiotic, it has no sense at all. The screenplay is full of intentionally funny dialogues. The audience was laughing many times. And the suspense is very low. Actors play so-so, with an exception of Sharon Stone, who has some good moments but also some awfully bad acting moments. The saddest parts are when she tries to be aggressively sexy and says things like "I want to *beep* you " and it looks like, let's say it gently, a very very mature woman acting rude and not sexy at all. That erotic tension from BI1 is totally gone. From the technical point of Basic Instinct 2 is a mediocre movie - better than typical straight to DVD, but on a far lower lever than the original movie. For instance the scene of crazy joyride is done poorly. The director of Basic Instinct 2 is no Paul Verhoeven and it shows. The new composer is no Jerry Goldsmith and its shows. The script is done by people who are no match for Joe Eszterhas. There's no substitute for Michael Douglas in it. The film looks cheap and badly edited at times. I'm sorry but my first thought after I left the theater was: "Why heaven't they made this movie earlier and with original talents behind the success of the first movie?" All to all the original movie is like Citizen Kane compared to this. The first Basic Instinct is a classic and was a kind of break-thru in the popular cinema. It was provoking, sexy and controversial. It had the best Sharon Stone's performance in her career. It had this specific Paul Verhoeven's style. Unfortunately Basic Instinct 2 is a unintentionally funny movie, badly directed and a sure Razzie Award Winner in many categories. It's a pity that they made this film.

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