I reviewed the first Basic Instinct this year, having rewatched it and enjoyed it even more this time around. Regular readers to the site will understand that I’m a big fan of beautiful, confident women especially older, refined women and Sharon Stone is one of America’s best.
Without trying, I could go on and on about how much I liked Stone’s character in the first movie, and I was really looking forward to the sequel. after all, Stone is now 50 years old and still has a drop dead gorgeous body.
It was with great enthusiasm that I watched Basic Instinct 2, looking forward to sex scenes that were sure to inflame and disturb me.
It was with great disappointment that I turned it off after the first half hour.
I didn’t even watch it long enough to see Sharon Stone bare it all an extraordinary phenomena, as I usually have infinite patience for nudity and sex.
Why?
The first movie was gripping, and director Paul Verhoeven gave it style and pacing. Combined with a twisted script, the movie was near flawless in execution Stone and her co-star Michael Douglas just put their icing on top of an already delicious cake.
The sequel tries too hard to emulate the first adhering to a formula, it feels two dimensional, and we never get caught up in the story. Well, from what I saw in the first 30 minutes, anyway.
Basically, it was boring.
And not sexy. I mean, Stone tries her hardest to be sexy, but there’s something off. She’s wearing a lot of makeup, yes, but I also suspect that they digitally made her look younger in post-production. her face has this unnatural sheen that I only associate with terrible men’s magazines, like Maxim.
Pretty much the only decent thing about the film was Stone’s psychologist played by David Morrissey. Morrissey is a very Liam Neeson type actor. Too bad his lines are so unbearably dull.
Very, very dull. Director Michael Caton Jones feels like he’s idolizing the first movie, and trying to hard to mimic it, like young college kids reading Hunter S. Thompson for the first time and writing essays in ‘Gonzo’-fashion. And failing.
The ‘sexual chemistry’ between the two leads is forced and flaccid. Stone drops hints of sex in nearly everything she says, which is unbearably cheesy, while Morrissey plays the prude doctor, though we know he’ll fall for her.
Since I didn’t finish watching it, I can’t really comment on anything. No heroic conclusion, no startling analysis. All I can say is that I’ll try to fast forward through it and see if Stone pulls off the sex scenes with any grace. That’s all we can ask for.
I say: Stay away from this film. Far away.
See it for: Um… the opening credits? They’re slightly less boring that the first part of the film, which, even though it has a Ferrari a very beautiful Dutch Spyker C8 Laviolette crashing over a bridge and landing in a river, is still incredibly boring.
Though, I will say, Stone is still ravishing, and still has that great smile.
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