Basic Instinct

1992 • 123 minutes

About this movie

Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone co-stars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she described in her latest novel. Obsessed with cracking the case, Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount, bodies fall and he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival.

Ratings and reviews

Exploitative, over the top, glossy violence porn masquareding as d&m commentary on life. Stone is perfect in the part and Douglas does his Fatal Attraction jig. Direction is faultless but also heartless. Most overrated and nonsensical script of any major movie to date. Would have been more digestible if it didn't come with such fanfare.

A sex romp masqueraded as a thriller film. It seems any actress ever worked with Hollyweird has to - one time or another - takes off all their clothes for the camera. Hollyweird's standard continued to fall with such rubbish as this movie.

Too similar to Fatal Attraction including Douglas as the lead, but a great companion film and Sharon Stone is smoking hot!