Basic Instinct stars Michael Douglas as San Francisco Inspector Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as Catherine Trammel a Novelist, Douglas is investigating a murder that happened during a kinky night where an ice pick is the murder weapon, what he will uncover will push him to the brink of insanity.
You know, I really don't know where to begin with this movie, on the one hand it has a great performance by Stone, who's ice cold intelligence makes for compelling viewing not to mention a terrific score by the late Jerry Goldsmith, outside of those however this is one of the most predictable and ridiculous crime thrillers I've ever seen, complete with an ending that undoes everything the film says up to that point.
In some ways, this really feels like last year's Salt with Angelina Jolie, in that something that should be simple to solve at a script level is left unsolved and as a result, the writer (in this case Joe Eszterhas) cuts it both ways and chickens out of creating a final answer, which reminds me of the old idiom "The More things Change, the More they Stay the Same."
You know, I wanted this to be good as it was an adults only movie, something that is in short supply in the current climate but I can't say this was any good at all, despite those minor pluses, 1 out of 5.
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