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Michael Douglas (Actor), Sharon Stone (Actor), Paul Verhoeven (Director) Rated:

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Genre	Thriller
Format	Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Contributor	Paul Verhoeven, George Dzundza, Carolco; Le Studio Canal +, Alan Marshall, Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn See more
Language	English
Runtime	2 hours and 8 minutes

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An erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice pick murderer in San Francisco. It rivets attention through its sleek style and attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things together with a weirdly implausible yet intensely visceral storyline.

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 2.53 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ LGT19688DVD
Director ‏ : ‎ Paul Verhoeven
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 8 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 14, 2006
Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, French
Producers ‏ : ‎ Alan Marshall
Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified
Studio ‏ : ‎ Lionsgate
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000E5N684
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Ben30

NOT ALL THE EXTRAS ARE CARRIED OVER TO THIS NEW BLU-RAY REISSUE

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2017

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Lionsgate have reissued BASIC INSTINCT on blu-ray again, the old 2008 blu-ray is out of print now
the 2:35;1 HD transfer does look amazing close to 10/10 quality
the sound mix is 6.1 master mix
but tragically not all the extras have been carried over for some stupid reason
BLONDE POISON Documentary, Cleaning up Basic instinct, screen tests, original Theatrical trailer
is on this blu-ray reissue
the 2 audio commentaries from the old Ultimate edition dvd have been carried over but that's all
SO WHAT'S MISSING.
well of course the Sharon stone interview & sharon stone introduction from the old Ultimate edition dvd
so i give 3 stars for this blu-ray reissue cause not all the extras were carried over
apart from that the HD transfer is excellent
so best to still keep the Ultimate edition dvd just for all the extras

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Shannon Findlay

Tacky and Stupid.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2020

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I'm no prude but I don't like my porn with my murder mystery. It's just tacky and the sex scenes are stupid.
Also, The main character hero cop rapes his ex-girlfriend and then she cuddles with him afterward. If the movie was treating that as a problem it would be one thing, but it's just so nonchalant in this movie, as if it was hot for her to be yelling "no" and "stop it" while he bends her over the couch. So if you needed an example of rape culture, there it is.

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benjamin bannisterTop Contributor: Cooking

Well-Written and Well-Made Sexual Thriller

Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2016

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I love this movie. It feels like Paul Verhoeven studied his Hitchcock and brought a team of very talented filmmakers together to make the ultimate Hitchcockian-inspired sex thriller.

— THE WRITING —
At the time of its release, Joe Eszterhas' script prompted a bidding war that would make him the highest paid screenwriter at the time. While some may mock the trashy quality of it, you have to admit it's very enjoyable trashy writing, with a few memorable quotes to fill your life with.

— THE ACTING —
Sharon Stone was born to play Catherine Tramell. It was meant to be. She's a beautiful, blonde, seductress, who's rich, smart, and knows exactly how to work people. Instant iconic character. Everyone else is perfectly fine in their roles.

— THE CINEMATOGRAPHY —
Jan de Bont, who would go on to make 'Speed' and 'Twister' was the cinematographer for this film. And boy does that man know how to frame and move a camera around. Every shot is done with a purpose, you see what you're supposed to see, you are shown what is supposed to be revealed, and everything is framed beautifully.

— THE LOCATIONS —
Based in San Francisco, the film actually shows us some of the most beautiful locations there. I recently took a trip to San Francisco, and I made sure to stop at some of the same filming locales (I got exact addresses)[see photos]. Whoever did the location scouting picked some of the most gorgeous views of the city and around the city.

— THE MUSIC —
The music is perfect for this movie and on its own. Jerry Goldsmith was pushed very hard by the director, and what he's created here is worthy of his nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. I have the Basic Instinct: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack , and I love the album. There is one track in particular, "An Unending Story," it was playing one day while I was coming home from work; it felt like I was in a movie, that I was being stalked, and I had to look behind me at times just to make sure.

— THE STORY —
This is a great mystery and thriller, that just happens to have explicit sex in it. You are introduced to a few main characters, which includes a detective, and you're trying to figure out what's going on just as much as he is. Things are played multiple ways so you can consider multiple scenarios. You are taken along for this ride until the memorable last shot, which if you listen to the great commentary track, explains everything.

— SUMMARY —
Yes it has violence, yes it has sex, but it also has a great story, writing, acting, music, and cinematography that pulls it all together. If you've never seen Basic Instinct, you need to make the time and enjoy this mystery thriller. Recommended.

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good sudection movie

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2019

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A cop is called to a homicide to find a man who was killed after being intimate with a woman. The detective finds out that the killing is just like one written in a novel and the author becomes a suspect and the cop's lover. She says she did not do the killing but evidence shows that several novels of hers have come true and she becomes the prime suspect. At the end of the movie she does the same thing to the detective by making love but instead of killing him she decides to let him live but we do see the knife on the floor next to the bed.

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Logan Sweeney

This is a great film, if you have never seen it

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2017

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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.

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Mark

A great suspense/film noir. Stone steals the fil. Great performance. A classic.

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2018

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A classic suspense thriller-one of the absolute best. Sharon Stone steals this film from Michael Douglas. Her performance is stellar and earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, Drama, which she should have won. Still seems very current. Lots of interesting plot twists, so much so that in the end, the viewer is left wondering who the real killer(s) is.

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Richard Marriott

A misunderstood classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2014

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Almost everyone with access to a TV has seen Basic Instinct, and all because of one reason - Sharon Stone flashing the bit of herself that only boyfriends and gynaecologists usually see.
And therein lies the problem.
Basic Instinct has become a victim of its own infamy. Everyone remembers THAT scene, but they don't remember what a thoroughly superb thriller the film is.
Borrowing elements of Fatal Attraction and improving on them, Basic Instinct is the quintessential thriller of the 90s, albeit with tons of nudity and very realistic sex scenes. There were many awful imitators, like Sliver, Disclosure, and even the sequel to this film, but they all pale in comparison.
Michael Douglas offers a taut, yet restrained performance, Sharon Stone is simply mesmerising, and an honourable mention should go to George Dzunza, who plays off of Douglas nicely.
The script seems cliched at first glance, until you realise that this was the film that spawned the wannabes - other movies stole ideas from THIS.
For the minority, Basic Instinct is a soft porn shuffle-fest. For those who actually understand it, it is a terrific, tightly-plotted thriller that isn't all about sex.

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The 10th anniversary dvd edition, a time capsule in of itself?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2021

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Lately the 30th anniversary reissue, super-dupa-whoosh-wonders-blue-dazzzling-ultimate-high-as-the-sky-definition remastered edition, of BASIC INSTINCT, has hit the virtual shelves, with postcards and a new nostalgic documentary, new not-very-human artwork for the front cover. Is there any point investing for those of us with standard dvd players? Probably not. This 10th anniversary one has the film and a clutch of extras, including the commentary audios and Blonde Poison documentary, storyboards, featurettes, etc. And it's going for little more or less than £3.

The Blonde Poison documentary has historical interest in and of itself. A bunch of gay (rights) protestors making a big stink about the production's homophobia? It's the 21st century activist culture in its infancy, or perhaps in its full dynamism; not the armchair activism of the social media, who seek to cancel from the comfort of their Lazy Boy lounger chairs. These angry youngsters picketed the locations, blew whistles, and crossed the barricades to get arrested, and helped stoke the interest in the very movie they were trying to edit. Director, make that Dutch director Paul Veroehoeveneneenneen, scion of one of the most liberal and relaxed countries in Eurrp, as George Jr might have said, debated the angry Friscans to say, really, being gay is as natural as being a cow in a Dutch landscape painting, so really, what's the problem? Look at my earlier work? They replied, we don't have time to deal with you or your films, you are merely an elected symbol of everything we want to squash. So the director shrugs and carries on regardless, or rather with a renewed sense of daring-do.

Latterly, Sharon Stone, satirised in sitcom Frasier as the actress who let everyone look up her skirt and then did nothing but complain no-one took her seriously, has been 'revealing' that she slapped the director for having tricked her into revealing her whoo-whoo on camera. I hate to burst the bubble, but no-one who has ever seen this movie cares a jot about that bit of that scene. Hell, you get a reasonably good glimpse of the other actress' vertical smile in the other big controversial scene. In the movie, Stone's character actually says, with emphasis, "I have nothing TO HIDE", which if you add the shakespearean sense of 'no-thing' becomes very apt.

Revisiting the flick thirty or so years on, what is to be made of it? It is very b/w noir-era nostalgic in itself, and we can watch it with equal nostalgia. Remember when sex could be shocking, exciting, controversial? No, me neither, but look all the same, here's a movie that is stylish and sexy, with a wonderful musical score and a tremendous rapport and frisson between the actors. Basic Instinct is HOT. Douglas was the star when they were shooting. Trippelhorn and Stone were nobodies at that time. Stone was the star afterwards. This movie made her. The movie is a love letter to the noir genre and to Hitchcock, the Hitchcock of Vertigo. It's a tremendous slice of hokum.

Stone's character, Catherine, is interviewed by cops investigating the murder of a retired rock 'n' roller, Johnny, stabbed to death at the height of carnal ecstacy. The murder is a mimic of her last pulp novel. Detective Nick Curran (Douglas) is helplessly, fatalistically drawn into Catherine's game, and as much as she is the no.1 suspect, others could be responsible instead. Is Curran a good cop or a danger junkie? Is Catherine the only sociopathic, knickerless game player in town? Don't you believe it.

The very grisly killing and explicit stuff, including bondage and rough sex, represented a departure for mainstream Hollywood, and I can't think of much that has surpassed Basic Instinct since then. You can find unending supplies of gynaecologically explicit filth online today, but that's a different story, a different medium, truthfully. Think of the BDSM saturated Fifty Shades series: tame as a kitten. Think of the re-writes the gay-rights protestors wanted Veroehovenenenen to accept - now that's our reality today! On-message and no guts, no style. But hey-ho. Who goes to the cinema nowadays?

Hot stuff, Basic Instinct. Yank screenwriter and European liberal director were hand in glove on this one. Horny A-list actor and ambitious actresses willing to do anything to finally breakthrough into the crimson bargain. Today, as Paglia in her commentary states, Basic Instinct would be anodyne. Ironically, her commentary is itself 20 years old. We've sold our love of story and the broadening of our (erotic) horizons for righteous, witless, heinous placards and sloganeering. Times have not so much changed as peetered out. The end is nigh. Rent or buy a good movie while there's still time. Basic Instinct won't bore you, and it might even give you a silky notion or two.

Classic erotic thriller.

Samuel Barber

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2014

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This is the kind of film Hitchcock would love to have made with Grace Kelly. He approached it with Tippi Hedren in 'Marnie' where Sean Connery rapes her on their honeymoon, and he hints at it in 'Vertigo' when James Stewart kisses Kim Novak in the second coming of Madeleine. The closest he got with Grace Kelly is the attempted murder scene in 'Dial M For Murder' where Anthony Newland has her over the telephone table. It is a metaphor of a rape scene because he is on top of her on the table. In 'Basic Instinct' we get to dance with Sharon Stone, grope her, and have sex with her. This is what Hitchcock would have loved to have done with Grace Kelly, and it's no coincidence that Stone is a blonde dressed in classical costumes with classical beauty like Grace Kelly. The film is also set in San Francisco with overtones of 'Vertigo'. Catherine Trammell has echoes of Kim Novak who of course is a substitute for Grace Kelly.

Apart from the Hitchcock references, this is a landmark for Sharon Stone. You totally believe her in the role, and even in her screen tests she was there emotionally in the character. (The same can be said for Jeanne Tripplehorn, although I didn't agree with the rape scene between her and Michael Douglas.) Even when she's not speaking, her eyes tell the story. There is depth to her eyes which were absent from Kim Novak. In Novak's eyes, she looked lost and wandering. In Sharon Stone's eyes she is enchanting, hypnotic and seductive. She has the right voice, but so did Novak.It is husky and seductive with layers of sex in each sentence. Surely this is what Hitchcock wanted to achieve with Grace Kelly, but probably would have done better with Kim Novak. If Sharon Stone had a successful job as an actress before this film, she had a successful career as a film star after this film.

The Interrogation scene is a work of art in terms of performance, framing and direction. Sharon Stone is in control making the detectives sweat with sexual hunger. She has a profound effect on Michael Douglas who repeats her behaviour when he is interrogated later on. This shows how she is drawing him into her without him even realising it, almost like a black widow ready to swallow up her mate after sex,

Now because the film runs over two hours, there are going to be some scenes that drag its feet. However, they are cancelled out by the phenomenally strong scenes such as the opening scene, the interrogation scene, the nightclub scene, the sex scene that follows and the Michael Douglas interrogation scene.

Jeanne Tripplehorn is attractive and sexy in the scene that she is raped, but you kind of wonder where she goes from here because apart from 'Sliding Doors' she doesn't go on to do anything significant. Sharon Stone had a track record as a good actress in dull movies before making this film, and went on to do 'Sliver' and other movies after this film. Michael Douglas already had a track record with 'Fatal Attraction' for this sort of film, and would go on to do 'Disclosure' and 'A Perfect Murder'.

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BASIC INSTINCT DVD

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 26, 2021

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Please note...It states SUBTITLES here on Amazon. They aren't on my copy the cover of which is exactly as shown here. This won't matter to many, but it did to us as my wife is HOH. The film is worth seeing and not for the reason everyone remembers it for. Good performences, but it is a bit, well, sexist, I suppose. Shame about the subs, maybe I was sent the wrong copy???

G. Lucas

Really enjoyed this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2018

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Finally got to see this movie - (after 26yrs lol) it passed me by although I knew of it but never got round to seeing it. Was very impressed. I looked online for other's take on the ending and couldn't find the one I came up with immediately. I think she put it under the bed and was going to bring it out and threaten him with it as a sick joke - but thought better of it at the last moment - ha ha

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