TheBigSnack A winning addition to an exceptionally popular and highly acclaimed original the lead actor Sharon Stone perfection in the role of Catherine Tramell, an author of fiction and literary celebrity. But are her stories fiction, or are they tales delivered from her explicit traditions?Catherine is in every sense a queen of play, whereas this is not true of others she encounters as friends and enemies. As Catherine lives her life she both discovers and is discovered to be the full extent of an achiever.In this case, an ambitious English psychiatrist, Dr. Glass, recently knighted by the Queen, is trying to advance to a prestigious academic award. He encounters Tramell as an expert to the prosecution against her. Examination Tramell: Oh, I bet you like to take risks, don't you, Dr. Glass. Glass: But I'm not the one who's on trial for murder. Tramell: Not yet… Glass: Sorry, you're not allowed to smoke in here! Tramell: Ya know what I like about you, you enjoy being in control...like me.The case is dismissed and she then seeks him as a therapist. 2nd Session Tramell: People die in my novels, I have to think of new and interesting ways to kill them.The therapy sessions quickly turn into personal relations. At this point, it begins to become clear that the psychiatrist is not a person of true quality in an overall sense.He begins to stalk Tramell to find answers to appease his mistaken sense of character. When the cards are down he is left holding a smoking gun.In the final scene he is shown to be an incurable psychiatric patient.As a ball in play is a concept, so is a man. How well does anyone know themselves?Milena Gardosh is thrown out of the way because she does not gel according to the removed observations of Glass who desperately chases after a fleeting vision of establishing obvious meaning. Glass is a hollow entity, a success-seeker who comes to be at a great disadvantage one day. Glass is actually a debased character who uses his career to artifice a meaningful life but is nonetheless drowning in desperation. The saying is that life never changes and Glass and Washburn are caught in that cycle of desperation. The difference being Glass and Washburn are profoundly isolated as opposed to being a part of the good life. What if anything could establish their pursuits as just pursuits and provide the humanity that Glass and Washburn are reluctant or incapable of establishing?Glass and Washburn factor into the inhuman world and are sideswiped by the alien world of success. They inadvertently concede that they are not a big deal when they agree to take exception to an investigation. Their hard side is a lie because honesty is based on an inappropriate compromise of abusing their office to stage revenge prosecutions or extra personal controversies. In this particular case when they take exception and can no longer own the law they are weeded out as failed experiments by a golden girl.Tramell is largely a benefactor who inserts a reason to live into her friends and fans. The people who welcome Tramell share in her observance of a greater love of life and death. Tramell has a completely honest introduction and a completely honest conclusion in that she is guilt free with some grey in-between. Could this be no more than pure white on white and dead meat in the middle? To this end people do choose their hero and the story completes as one for the shelf.

Python Hyena Basic Instinct 2 (2006): Dir: Michael Caton-Jones / Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling, Hugh Dancy: Manipulative and morbid thriller that does pretty much what the original film did and that is mess with one's mind and hormones. It also tells the same bloody story. Sex and murder mystery writer Catherine Tramell is suspected of murder again and David Morrissey plays a police psychiatrist whom is sucked into her mind screw. People die horrible deaths while Tramell is suspected yet not witnessed. The ending is an bigger kick in the ass than the original. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones who previously made another trash film that bares certain similarities in The Jackal. Morrissey is basically reciting Michael Douglas only he seems to get screwed over worse. Sharon Stone as Tramell can still turn on the heat but to a far lesser degree here. She is running the same drill manipulating while sitting pretty when fingers are pointed in her direction. David Thewlis plays an interrogation officer who originally arrests Tramell only to be killed in the overly stupid climax. Charlotte Rampling is unfortunately flat as someone set to take Morrissey off the case. While the original film has its supporters, its twist ending leaves much to be desired. With that said, it is still ahead of the sequel in creativity. This all winds down to a ninety minute mind rape. Score: 2 / 10

OllieSuave-007 Released 14 years after the original, Novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) returns in this sequel, and is caught within the law again, this time in London. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (David Morrissey) is assigned by the Scotland Yard to evaluate her, but lured into Tramell's seductive game.While the first film blends in sexually with mesmerizing mystery, thrills and suspense, Director Michael Caton-Jones gave this film more of a slick and sleazy soap-opera style story, leaving out much of the mystery, suspense and intrigue. What you have is a movie with over-the-top raunchy scenes, cheesier dialog, overboard drama, and an uninspiring cast, though Stone can still pull-off a cunning femme fatale portrayal.The plot goes at a pretty swift pace, but I've found the story and the acting weren't as simulating as in the first film.Grade D

neighborlee First off, I did not see BI1, nor do I 'need' to, because either a movie movies me, or it does not. THis did, to the extent that I kept watching, though I was getting tired as it was after midnight.When I saw the very LOW score of 4 or such from some reviewers here, and also saw that they didn't 'get' the ending, I knew I had to chime in immediately.The ending , which I won't divulge, may not have the twisting involvement of a Sherlock Holmes, but it's intriguing enough to have made me wish for #3 to see about getting This scheming, cold , but brilliant writer her just rewards . That's how great of a job Sharon Stone did in this, and the supporting cast and crew while new to me, I felt did a completely adequate job of sinking my attention further and further into the tawdry, deceptive and thrilling plot's development.When we talk about a thriller, we can't help but give respect to Alfred HitchCock's 'The Birds', and while BI2 did most certainly not rise to that occasion ( in part due to the content/script) and there was a lot to rise TO,- it most certainly brought it right to the BRINK of it, with great character allure and thought provoking twists and turns throughout it.If you are looking for something to watch late at night and be on edge for those few hours, wondering if a murderer would go free, victims would be saved and who really did it and why, then this movie is certainly worth your time.