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Best movie ever!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Released 14 years after the original, Novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) returns in this sequel, and is caught within the law again, this time in London. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is assigned by the Scotland Yard to evaluate her, but lured into Tramell's seductive game.While the first film blends in sexually with mesmerizing mystery, thrills and suspense, Director Michael Caton-Jones gave this film more of a slick and sleazy soap-opera style story, leaving out much of the mystery, suspense and intrigue. What you have is a movie with over-the-top raunchy scenes, cheesier dialog, overboard drama, and an uninspiring cast, though Stone can still pull-off a cunning femme fatale portrayal.The plot goes at a pretty swift pace, but I've found the story and the acting weren't as simulating as in the first film.Grade D

Sharon Stone returns in her signature role as novelist Catherine Tramell, who is now living in London, and becomes the center of attention after being in a car with her football player boyfriend when it crashes into the river, drowning him. Police discover that he died of a drug overdose first, so Catherine is arrested and ordered to undergo therapy with Dr. Michael Glass(David Morrissey) who, like Nick Curran before him, is seduced by her brazen sexuality, and begins a torrid affair, despite warnings from his detective friend Roy Washburn(David Thewlis) and more murders piling up. Is Catherine guilty? Belated sequel, now directed by Michael Caton Jones, has Sharon Stone returning most convincingly as super-sexy Catherine Tramell, but otherwise this mystery is cold and unsatisfying, though not as dreadful as its reputation would lead you to believe. Still not as memorable as the first, which may be its biggest problem(along with the unexplained absence of Michael Douglas as Nick Curran).

..This is no cry of agony from my side, nope, this is what this movie cries in agony ! At first I said to myself, OK, this is a sex and violence crap. So why not? As long as I enjoy at least the first element. But Ohh, I discovered that it consists of Nos, lots and lots of Nos..(David Morrissey) is NO peer to Sharon Stone. He's deprived of charisma.(David Morrissey) has NO talent. He put the same one-note expression on his face during the whole time. And from what that expression looked you can't decide; was he angry ?, restrainedly horny ?, disturbed ?, or board ?! This reached its climax at the final shot; where his expression was sure the most pointless and stupid expression I have ever seen in my life ! (Sharon Stone) is NO sexy in this. In most of her scenes she seems like a drug addict has-been. Her face, along with her body, especially her – as the Razzie put it – lop-sided breasts, were old and pathetic (And by the way, her haircut SUCKED !). Simply, if you love the beautiful (Sharon Stone) of the 1980s and 1990s, then welcome to the ghost of her ! (Sharon Stone) gave NO good performance. All what she got to do was feeling like "I'm irresistibly HOT, I'm a ravenous TIGER, I'm unredeemably BAD!". The thing is, nothing of that got to us. So, with her lousy looks, she was more like a real sick woman, yet with the fake belief that she's femme fatal ! There is NO meaning out of shipping the events to England, even its places weren't used as fancy or mysterious backgrounds to the story. Speaking of the story; there is NO thrill. And what a shame to say that in a thriller. The movie is a sleepy slasher all along. There is NO style. (Michael Caton-Jones), who directed once highly good works like Doc Hollywood (1991) and Rob Roy (1995), makes here the lowest point in his career. Clearly he was uninterested in, if not hating, what he was doing. Just watch his soulless performance, with dull cadres, dull way to move the cast, dull cuts.. etc, to feel how he directed a rushed TV episode where he had no time to create, rather master, anything ! For your information; right after this movie, he couldn't find any work in cinema, and after 20 years of directing movies, he became a TV director (It's up to you; was that sad or fair ?).There is NO beauty, on any level. Even the end twist was there only to convince you that this movie has some brain to be wicked and manipulative. But they forgot to make something worthy before it !So, (Basic Instinct 2) is a sleepy slasher, the longest TV episode, and a strange convention which invited their members to leave their talents at the door ! And if you were in it for sex and violence; watch the first movie better. Actually, I was tortured by this movie's privation, it's more like a needy child that his parents stripped him from everything. In short : Movies like this created the Razzie award ! To be objective, one thing attracted my attention, in a positive way : the white trousers that (Stone) wore in the last scene; it was lovely and catchy.. like NO other thing in the movie !

First off, I did not see BI1, nor do I 'need' to, because either a movie movies me, or it does not. THis did, to the extent that I kept watching, though I was getting tired as it was after midnight.When I saw the very LOW score of 4 or such from some reviewers here, and also saw that they didn't 'get' the ending, I knew I had to chime in immediately.The ending , which I won't divulge, may not have the twisting involvement of a Sherlock Holmes, but it's intriguing enough to have made me wish for #3 to see about getting This scheming, cold , but brilliant writer her just rewards . That's how great of a job Sharon Stone did in this, and the supporting cast and crew while new to me, I felt did a completely adequate job of sinking my attention further and further into the tawdry, deceptive and thrilling plot's development.When we talk about a thriller, we can't help but give respect to Alfred HitchCock's 'The Birds', and while BI2 did most certainly not rise to that occasion ( in part due to the content/script) and there was a lot to rise TO,- it most certainly brought it right to the BRINK of it, with great character allure and thought provoking twists and turns throughout it.If you are looking for something to watch late at night and be on edge for those few hours, wondering if a murderer would go free, victims would be saved and who really did it and why, then this movie is certainly worth your time.