A Four Film Review for the New Year Basic Instinct 2 (2006) cost 70 million dollars to make, lost 31.4 million at the box office. A failure, financially and critically. The late movie reviewer guru Roger Ebert assigned 1.5 stars out of four, an F Plus if it were a grade. Sharon Stone is the plus in this film. Every one of her scenes electrified me. Her gaze is one of the greats of cinema, along with Monica Vitti. The way she holds her eyes in this film reminds one of a predatory cat (some would joke, a cougar). She returns as Catherine Trammell, a torrid novelist writing under the giveaway name, Catherine Woolf, a nod to the individualistic crankiness of Virginia Woolf, but also the name for another predator, a night hunter. She drives off a pier with a footballer in the passenger seat. She's engaged in receiving a finger-job from him, doing most of the work since he...
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