Review of Basic Instinct (1992) by Joseph M — 21 Apr 2009
A well played and well made thriller. It's biggest tricks are giving you the answers, but then making you doubt them. Douglas, Stone and Tripplehorn make for a wonderful threesome. They bicker, they love and they create decent enough conflict to warrant the films running time.
Verhoeven handles the sex and violence in graphic ways which often become too glorified. This may be in an attempt to get our hearts racing at inappropriate behaviour, in the same way that Douglas' character is suddenly liberated.
Solid and daring filmmaking, but ultimately the word of mouth has elevated this film to something that it cannot achieve.
This review of Basic Instinct (1992) was written by Joseph M on 21 Apr 2009.
Basic Instinct has generally received mixed reviews.
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