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There was something redeeming\u2014or at least potentially redeeming\u2014about the first \u201cBasic Instinct\u201d in 1992. One or two tantalizing scenes could not have been enough to drive all of the $350 million it made, nor would they have sustained celebrity status for an actress who hasn\u2019t done much since. It at least attempted (or pretended?) to offer a story with vulnerability and questions at the boundary of what passes for judgment and, well, instinct.<\/p>\n

The second one\u2014I don\u2019t know whether to call it a bad sequel or a bad remake\u2014is just a pure waste of time.<\/p>\n

I usually like trying to find something positive about any form of art or expression and certainly about any person. I don\u2019t have anything good to say about this one, and actually hope it hasn\u2019t killed Sharon Stone\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

This film stinks. Maybe it\u2019s because Stone\u2019s Catherine Tramell was more interesting as an unknown than as a re-tread. Maybe it\u2019s because there was something truly vulnerable about Michael Douglas\u2019s performance that\u2019s clearly missing here. Maybe it\u2019s because female characters are intelligent, smart and heroic in just about every crime show on television, and the battle of the sexes is, uh, not at the fever pitch it may have been in 1992. Maybe it\u2019s because the setting is Europe and not the United States.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m usually one of the first guys to enjoy telling lawyer jokes, but this joke\u2014the one about the attorneys who couldn\u2019t solve a contract dispute so the studio had to make a movie nobody wanted\u2014isn\u2019t even funny.<\/p>\n

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