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Basic Instinct
Directed by
Paul Verhoeven
R
1992
2h 8m
Mystery
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7.1
56%
64%
6.9
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A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
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Cast of Basic Instinct
Michael Douglas
Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone
Catherine Tramell
George Dzundza
Gus
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Dr. Beth Garner
Denis Arndt
Lieutenant Walker
Leilani Sarelle
Roxy
Bruce A. Young
Andrews
Chelcie Ross
Captain Talcott
Dorothy Malone
Hazel Dobkins
Wayne Knight
John Correli
Daniel von Bargen
Lieutenant Nilsen
Stephen Tobolowsky
Dr. Lamott
Benjamin Mouton
Harrigan
Jack McGee
Sheriff
Bill Cable
Johnny Boz
Stephen Rowe
Internal Affairs Investigator
Mitch Pileggi
Internal Affairs Investigator
Mary Pat Gleason
Juvenile Officer
Freda Foh Shen
Berkeley Registrar
William Duff-Griffin
Dr. Myron
Basic Instinct Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Ruthless craftsmanship is Paul Verhoeven's highest form of politics.
Southern Voice (Atlanta)
Terry Francis
Basic Instinct is the work of fundamentally immature sensibilities. It uses women and differences in affectional preference as fodder for its misogynist, peek-a-boo mentality that views whatever it cannot understand as evil and threatening.
Our Own Community Press (Norfolk, VA)
Charles Rhodes
A conglomeration of misogynistic nad homophobic images...
Bitch Media
Carrie Nelson
Basic Instinct depicts queerness in the most sinister ways imaginable.
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
[The film has] a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Slick, clever and entertainingly overheated while you're watching it, Basic Instinct starts to evaporate the second you leave the theater.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Call me a prude, but it's not sexy watching an erotic thriller in which every time a couple does it, one of them gets it with an ice pick. I don't care how many firmly toned tummies and tushes are bared.
The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
A vicious, grindingly manipulative urban mystery that uses a thick atmosphere of S&M kinkiness to distract the audience from the story's thinness and inanity.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Sharon Stone, in her first major-league role, comes on like a postfeminist Grace Kelly. She turns her haughty, slightly blank, cheerleader sexiness into something vampish and ominous -- an all-American beauty mask.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery.
Variety
Variety Staff
This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Basic Instinct transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of Hitchcockian intrigue, and the results are viscerally effective even when they don't make sense.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Verhoeven's cinematic wet dream delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is like a crossword puzzle. It keeps your interest until you solve it. Then it's just a worthless scrap with the spaces filled in.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
These actors seem driven less by real emotions than Eveready bunny batteries.
Austin Chronicle
Kathleen Maher
The story has to move along at a fair clip because otherwise we'd notice how nonsensical it all is.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A predictable, surprisingly uninvolving affair.
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