Basic Instinct

Pros: Sharon Stone, Photography, Score
Cons: Script, Michael Douglas

Dutch Director Paul Verhoeven put together a slickly packaged thriller in Basic Instinct. The trouble is, the story is too ambiguous and disjointed to really satisfy mystery fans no matter how well put together the production is. As a result it is...

Pros: Sharon Stone. Interesting idea for the plot.
Cons: Too graphic for some viewers. Weak overall mystery.

In 1992, Basic Instinct was released amid a lot of controversy because of the graphic sex scenes, nudity, and gay characters. I do remember hearing about some of the controversy. All of the publicity surrounding this movie did make me ...

Pros: innovative film, interesting story, intense characters, suspenseful plot lines, pushes the envelope
Cons: very provocative

Sharon Stone really made a name for herself with the erotic thriller Basic Instinct back in 1992. She was put in the femme fatale role for a film that she wasn't even the star of, but soon the movie was mostly remembered for her, and not its star ...

Pros: Jerry Goldsmith's score
Cons: Plot, characters, and lack of intelligence

Basic Instinct, Dutch director Paul Verhoven's homage to the film noir genre, is famously notorious for various reasons. First, it appeared on the social radar scope when its storyline -- written by Joe Eszterhas -- was denounced as an ...

Pros: Stone sizzles
Cons: Sort of predictable

Basic Instinct is a high-class porno with a plot. Sure, it features A-list actors with a big name director and screenwriter, but it's still a porno. It stars Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone and is based on a script by Joe Eszterhas (Sliver, ...

Pros: slick, outrageous, fun
Cons: language, sex scenes and decadence

Gus: I thought you said he was a rock and roll star. Lt. Walker: He was a retired rock and roll star. Capt. Talcott: A civic-minded, very respectable rock and roll star. Gus: What's that over there? Nick: It looks like some civic-minded, very ...

Pros: Bravura performance from Sharon Stone. Gorgeous cinematography. Moody and effective score.
Cons: Nonsensical plot. Extremely misogynistic. Puerile approach to sex. Cheat of an ending.

'Virtually Vicki' is now in the can. The footage for my very first infomercial of fine consumer products has gone off to the lab to be spliced and shaped into one of the great half hours of late night cable television of our time. Joseph is working...

Pros: Sharon Stone is alright...
Cons: ...but no one else is.

I gotta say, Basic Instinct blows one Michael-Douglas-sized penis. Time may tell what the size of that penis is (if any of you female readers have slept with him, perhaps you can inform me), but let's just pretend, for now, that it's ...

Pros: High on suspenseful knee-jerk emotion and sexually provocative subject matter.
Cons: Killer is revealed but I'm not convinced.

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Pros: Sharon Stone is stunning. Cool cinematography. Solid acting. Lots of stylized and explicit sex.
Cons: Plot can be a little weak and silly at times. Ending is a little abrupt.

After watching the new DVD of the uncut & uncensored version of the 1992 erotic-thriller Basic Instinct, I was surprised at how well the movie has aged. I also noticed that it doesn't seem quite as shocking as far as the sex scenes & subject...

Pros: Complex plot that takes you nowhere except to sex scenes.
Cons: Complex plot that takes you nowhere except to sex scenes.

“Basic Instinct” takes the classic film suspense genre and turns it on its head. In its tribute to Hitchcock, the 1992 film's director, Paul Verhoeven, takes Hitchcock’s decades’ fascination with our proclivities towards perversion, and in one fell...

Pros: good plot, no loopholes, unpredictable, good performances
Cons: unnecessary nudity, sex and sexuality

I don't understand why people talk about only Sharon Stone when talking about 'Basic Instinct'. There is more than just Stone's nudity, sex in this movie. There is a very tight screen play which doesn't let anyone guess the ending but the whole plot got ...

Pros: The direction, score, and cinematography are terrific.
Cons: The finale seems to upset many.

(Dir: Paul Verhoeven, Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Bruce A. Young, Chelcie Ross, Dorothy Malone, Wayne Knight, Daniel von Bargen, Stephen Tobolowsky, Benjamin Mouton, and Bill...

Pros: Interesting murder case Clever plot twists
Cons: Too many unlikable characters and unfair treatment of the two characters we do like

I'm intrigued by the whole Fatal Attraction concept, a beautiful woman stalking a man as if he's the only guy alive and usually he's the scum of the Earth (as is the case here). I've always wanted to write my own version, which I'm doing now, to make the...

Pros: Sharon Stone, erotic atmosphere, witty dialogue, the leg crossing scene
Cons: few plot holes, a little to long

In 1992 Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, writer Joe Eszterhas,
and director Paul Verhoeven created one of the most memorable erotic thrillers of all time. But what came as the biggest surprise of all is that the movie, while very
sexually...