| Basic Instinct | | Cast : | Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone | | Director : | Paul Verhoeven | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned | | Released Date : | March 20, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | December 16, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | A very fresh murder movie that gets better by the minute | Content
 | This movie Stars very good characters for the plot,The movie starts out with a grusome murder (If you have the unrated version)and a detective is sent in to figure out who did it and after some facts were discover they go to a supects house and from then The detective meets a woman that has some thing to do with it but can't figure it out because of the twist and turns she puts in his head and then she slowly seduces him.But the detective does not lose his thought's about what she's up to which makes the movie interesting to see. The dvd comes with lots of stuff so don't worry |
| Rating | | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | This is one of those movies where you just...watch the unrated version, Ok? | Content
| Spicey...well, just balls (pun intended)
yeah, this movie is good...yeah, half is "porn"
Watch it [the unrated version]...and read Douglas king's review...[oh, and btw- in one way, you can say it is "mysogynistic" in another, it exposes it, and in another it is "misandrist" as well as "gender-bending" which i reallly like (*Catherine Trammell)
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| Rating | | | Date | May 21, 2005 | | Summary | Like Minks | Content
| The primary purpose of this movie seems to be to show off Sharon Stone's body and the give her and assorted other characters the opportunity to #$% like minks. They throw in a psycho murder mystery for free.
The story involves a police investigation where a murder is just like one described in a book. The investigating officer pursues the author of the book and at various time is convinced of her guilt and of her innocence. Along the way, he manages to be a suspect himself and to suspect an old flame who also happens to be an old flame of the author. It is all very sordid and convoluted. That does not stop it from being an intriguing mystery.
In addition to gratutious sex and nudity this film also offers quite a few unexpected plot twists and surprises. One of the most surprising things for me was number of times when I became convinced of the author's guilt only to be proven wrong...for a while. In the meantime, the body count continues to rise.
This is certainly not a bad psycho drama but I certainly would not put it up there with the best. It does provide a lot of...scenery. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 06, 2005 | | Summary | Sharon Stone's pathetic claim to fame... | Content
| This movie reminds me of something that happened to me when I was 10 years old (1979). My stepmother (at the time) said that we (me, my Dad, her, and my two stepbrothers) HAD to go see this movie that was coming out, and we HAVE to see it the VERY FIRST weekend that it comes out. Well, we waited for over an hour (in line) to get the tickets. As it turned out, it was so crowded in the theater that we couldn't even sit all together. I sat by myself, while my Dad sat with one of my stepbrothers and my stepmother sat with the other. Well, all the hype about the movie turned out to be just that: HYPE. As we were filing out like cattle, I heard more than one negative comment about the film, and, if I remember correctly, I believe this particular movie was gone from theaters in just over 2 months. The name of the movie???--METEOR. Never heard of it? Well, there were no crotch shots, or any nudity or icepick murders, but had there been, the movie still would have sucked. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 17, 2005 | | Summary | More than meets the Eye | Content
| I absolutely loved this movie. The plot is intriguing, diabolical and multi-faceted, the characters are interesting, and the score is mesmerizing. All in all this film is captivating and erotic. The unrated version is definitely worth getting over the R rated version. The review by Camille Paglia is worth watching all the way through because her insights on the film are quite interesting because she really explains the imagery and the interplay between Douglas and Stone. Paglia also brings up the role of Goddess religions and the occult as being part of the movie which explain and give depth to the Catherine Trammel character, and she also gives an interesting take on how the movie in some ways is very analagous to the war between the sexes and the role of the vamp character in explaining the feminine mystique. |
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