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Basic Instinct

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 7m
  • 43

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Producer:

Alan Marshall, Mario Kassar

Release Date:

Mar 20, 1992

Runtime:

2hr 7m

Synopsis

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Cast

  • Michael Douglas
  • Sharon Stone
  • George Dzundza
  • Jeanne Tripplehorn
  • Denis Arndt
  • Leilani Sarelle
  • Bruce A. Young
  • Chelcie Ross
  • Dorothy Malone
  • Wayne Knight

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Metacritic

43
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Based on 28 Critics
3.8

USER SCORE (457)

Generally unfavorable reviews based on 457 Reviews
75

Bad politics sometimes makes for good movies, and the harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.

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Metacritic review by Jay Boyar
Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
50

Overpublicized and underbrained,Basic Instinct is a bitter disappointment, worth maybe a 10th of the hype that the media have so obligingly ladled out for its benefit.

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Metacritic review by Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Baltimore Sun
50

Basic Instinct's characters lack psychology and therefore motive. Admittedly they possess pathology, but that's not enough to maintain suspense in a movie with plot holes big enough to drive a tank through.

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Metacritic review by Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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