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Basic Instinct 2 (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   D+ Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Sharon Stone's up to her old tricks, but her old tricks aren't up to her." more... C- Boston Globe Ty Burr "Absurdly overheated and unforgivably dull..." more... D   Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "Basic Instinct 2 is not good in any rational or defensible way, but not bad in irrational and indefensible ways." more... C- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "...the manufactured thrill is gone." more... C- E! Online "...Stone portrays Catherine Tramell more like a desperate old floozy than a take-no-prisoners man-eater..." more... D   Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "Basic Instinct 2 isn't bad, exactly, but it lacks the entertaining vulgarity of the first film..." more... B- filmcritic.com Joel Meares "Sharon Stone has been falling from grace for about a decade now, and here, with her great vanity project, she hits the ground with an inglorious thud." more... D+ Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt "Erotic thriller desperately needs Michael Douglas -- and some real eroticism." more... D+ New York Post Kyle Smith "Botoxic." more... D- New York Times Manohla Dargis "...a disaster of the highest or perhaps lowest order." more... F   ReelViews James Berardinelli "It's nearly impossible to endure the two hours that comprise Basic Instinct 2's running length not because it's dumb (although it is) and not because it's poorly acted (which it also is), but because it's lifeless." more... D   Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...deliciously awful..." more... F   San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein "Director Michael Caton-Jones...fails to establish a mood of foreboding, relying instead on dreadful background music..." more... D+ Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "Compared to what is one click away from any kid on the Internet, the depravity of Basic Instinct 2 is very tame indeed." more... D   USA Today Claidia Puig "The 1992 phenomenon was creepy, tense and sexually charged in a bold yet tawdry way. This sequel lacks even a shred of those elements." more... D   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)