Basic Instinct (Blu-ray, Director's Cut) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 29, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1992
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 131,857
Flashy, raunchy and schlocky, Basic Instinct is classic nineties noir for which Verhoeven's overblown direction and Stone's exposure secured a place in movie history. Full Review
Film4
Mar 25, 2013
Rating: 2/5 -- Basic Instinct is a reminder of the difference between exhilaration and exhaustion, between tension and hysteria, between eroticism and exhibitionism. The line may be fine, but it is real enough to separate the great thrillers from the also-rans. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Mar 25, 2013
[The film has] a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Mar 25, 2013
...One charged-up erotic thriller - gory, lurid, brutally funny...
Rolling Stone
Apr 16, 1992
Rating: 1/4 -- Here is a film so utterly devoid of art and intellect that nothing remains other than a husk of ridiculous ploys. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Feb 4, 2017
With her high octane gyno-power at full throttle, [Sharon Stone] ... commands our attention now as much as she did on the film's initial release, defiantly holding our gaze if we dare even for a moment let our eyes drift towards anything else. Full Review
Senses of Cinema
Aug 27, 2018
Rating: 1/4 -- Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world. Full Review
Chicago Tribune
Mar 25, 2013

Product Description:

This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating, and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship, more murders occur, all described in her current work, about a boozy cop in love with a killer. Nick's psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and cop partner (George Dzundza) are both worried about him, and Catherine's jealous lesbian lover (Leilani Sarelle) may be trying to kill him, but Nick is just too turned on to care.

Director Paul Verhoeven shows an admirable lack of restraint in this ludicrously enjoyable thriller, a sort of postmodern noir with Joe Eszterhas's script coming off like Mamet by way of Penthouse. Stone and Douglas exhibit fine chemistry (and most of their bodies), and there's some lovely Bay Area scenery courtesy of cinematographer Jan de Bont (who went on to direct films such as SPEED and TWISTER). Wayne Knight (Newman from SEINFELD) and Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from THE X-FILES) are precinct heads who question Catherine in the infamous leg-crossing scene.

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