Basic Instinct (Restored) (Uncut) [Blu-ray] (1992) | Imported from UK | Region B Locked | 128 min | Studio Canal | Crime Thriller | Director: Paul Verhoeven | Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
A**A
Superb
Long-awaited desire movie happy to see combo of normal & 4KHDR movie Nice Crystel clear transformation complete money worth 👌
G**O
Un triller clasico
El blu ray contiene material extra y la calidad de imagen es excelente con audio dts y subtítulos en español esta es la versión original sin censura ampliamente recomendado para la colección
L**Y
This is a great film, if you have never seen it
Bought the unrated directors cut, and it came with almost of the special features did, but is missing a few tiny tidbits that aren't really that big of a deal. This is a great film, if you have never seen it, it is HARD R stuff (nudity and such), but a great film non-the-less. Digital code worked fine. It is one of Paul Verhoeven better films. Worth a watch and has a very iconic scene it. Sharon stone and Michael Douglas are great.
D**Y
Top Notch Sexual Thriller
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone act well this. A cop gets involved in more ways than one in this homicide sexual killing. Very good.
L**H
Superb
Where most of the attempts to reinvent film noir fail, this film succeeds. The concept of transgression is translated into a modernized setting in a way that embraces film noir values, but at the same time feels utterly non-derivative. Much of the plotting and dialogue is wonderfully complex and subtle, and Verhoeven gives the whole thing a uniquely perverse spin. The music is worth a viewing by itself, as it is stunningly effective. In a film like this, you don't expect a score so lush and romantic, but it works. The film has perhaps two knocks. It is, when all is said and done, a whodunit, and carries all the negatives of that genre, the worst of which is the plethora of hints dropped to implicate this character or that. The other knock is more serious. There is a giant hole in the story which becomes apparent at the very end. From the get-go, Trammel tells Nick that he (the detective in her story) is going to fall in love with the wrong woman and she's going to kill him. And of course the ice-pick revelation at the very end of the film is meant to confirm that. But none of this works. Trammel has spent years orchestrating the perfect crime, committing a string of murders and drawing a net around Garner/Hoberman to implicate the psychologist and put herself in the clear. Having succeeded with all of that, Trammel cannot kill Nick at the end--especially not with an icepick. That would blow the whole thing. Irrespective of that, BI is a great achievement and worth many viewings.Update 11/10/19: After a number of additional viewings, I might soften my criticism of the hole at the end. Trammel is diabolically rational and devious in engineering the appearance of Garner's guilt. But at the same time, the film does a good job of persuading us that she is a wildly emotional creature and genuinely distraught that all the people around her die. It could be argued that, despite having committed the perfect crime, she's so sick that she might kill Nick anyway, without concern for the consequences.
D**Z
WHAT A GREAT MOVIE
A GREAT MOVIE TO WATCH WITH YOUR CHICK.
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