2006 · crime · mystery · thriller
Basic Instinct 2
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones1h 56m2006
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Our read: Basic Instinct 2 (2006) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded crime · mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured crime / mystery, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
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Skip it tonight — You expect the original's heat; this sequel is mostly overheated nonsense.
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