Basic Instinct

 


 

A police officer and a murder suspect meet and a strange, almost morbid attraction is formed between them. He's hot; she's as cold as ice. They know each other's dark secrets. He accidentally killed two tourists while under the influence of cocaine, his wife committed suicide, and he is sleeping with his psychiatrist. She is suspected of murdering her parents, her professor at Berkley, and several other men. And besides, she's gay (or so they let us think), And she has a jealous girlfriend. And that's just in the first half of the Movie.

In the last half hour so many twists in the plot occur, that it seems that even the writer has lost the ability to keep track. Maybe that's why there are so many scenes of sex and almost rape in this Movie, some of which border on the pornographic. Some of it could have been cut (I think that the screened version was cut as it is) for the benefit of clarifying obscure details in the plot. The story is somewhat reminiscent of "Sea of Love", but with all due respect, Michael Douglas is not Al Pacino. If he had to come down to pornography to sell a Movie, that's a sign that something is rotten in the Kingdom of Hollywood (by the way, what does daddy Kirk have to say?) And he ought to know, after "Fatal Attraction", that a man caught between two women has no chance. Whatever happens, he will always, always lose.

You can reveal the ending to those who haven't seen the Movie, as a service to those who get fed up and decide to leave in the middle.