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.

It's good to see Stan Colleymore kissing Sharon Stone (albeit at the age of 48). It's what most men, including Englishmen of colour, wanted to do with the Sharon Stone of Basic Instinct and 'Sliver'. Relocating the film to London instead of San Francisco shows what a huge following the original film had in the UK. However, this film does not live up to the original. For a start, Sharon Stone is too old and way passed her best. In the original, not only was she sexy but she was a good actress. In this film she looks plain and washed out. She had no presence or anything going on her face to advance the story. She was soulless, but then so was David Morrisey. I didn't connect with any of the characters, although some of the ideas could have been handled better.This film shouldn't have been made and does not deserve to see the light of day.

Sharon Stone returns in her signature role as novelist Catherine Tramell, who is now living in London, and becomes the center of attention after being in a car with her football player boyfriend when it crashes into the river, drowning him. Police discover that he died of a drug overdose first, so Catherine is arrested and ordered to undergo therapy with Dr. Michael Glass(David Morrissey) who, like Nick Curran before him, is seduced by her brazen sexuality, and begins a torrid affair, despite warnings from his detective friend Roy Washburn(David Thewlis) and more murders piling up. Is Catherine guilty? Belated sequel, now directed by Michael Caton Jones, has Sharon Stone returning most convincingly as super-sexy Catherine Tramell, but otherwise this mystery is cold and unsatisfying, though not as dreadful as its reputation would lead you to believe. Still not as memorable as the first, which may be its biggest problem(along with the unexplained absence of Michael Douglas as Nick Curran).

..This is no cry of agony from my side, nope, this is what this movie cries in agony ! At first I said to myself, OK, this is a sex and violence crap. So why not? As long as I enjoy at least the first element. But Ohh, I discovered that it consists of Nos, lots and lots of Nos..(David Morrissey) is NO peer to Sharon Stone. He's deprived of charisma.(David Morrissey) has NO talent. He put the same one-note expression on his face during the whole time. And from what that expression looked you can't decide; was he angry ?, restrainedly horny ?, disturbed ?, or board ?! This reached its climax at the final shot; where his expression was sure the most pointless and stupid expression I have ever seen in my life ! (Sharon Stone) is NO sexy in this. In most of her scenes she seems like a drug addict has-been. Her face, along with her body, especially her – as the Razzie put it – lop-sided breasts, were old and pathetic (And by the way, her haircut SUCKED !). Simply, if you love the beautiful (Sharon Stone) of the 1980s and 1990s, then welcome to the ghost of her ! (Sharon Stone) gave NO good performance. All what she got to do was feeling like "I'm irresistibly HOT, I'm a ravenous TIGER, I'm unredeemably BAD!". The thing is, nothing of that got to us. So, with her lousy looks, she was more like a real sick woman, yet with the fake belief that she's femme fatal ! There is NO meaning out of shipping the events to England, even its places weren't used as fancy or mysterious backgrounds to the story. Speaking of the story; there is NO thrill. And what a shame to say that in a thriller. The movie is a sleepy slasher all along. There is NO style. (Michael Caton-Jones), who directed once highly good works like Doc Hollywood (1991) and Rob Roy (1995), makes here the lowest point in his career. Clearly he was uninterested in, if not hating, what he was doing. Just watch his soulless performance, with dull cadres, dull way to move the cast, dull cuts.. etc, to feel how he directed a rushed TV episode where he had no time to create, rather master, anything ! For your information; right after this movie, he couldn't find any work in cinema, and after 20 years of directing movies, he became a TV director (It's up to you; was that sad or fair ?).There is NO beauty, on any level. Even the end twist was there only to convince you that this movie has some brain to be wicked and manipulative. But they forgot to make something worthy before it !So, (Basic Instinct 2) is a sleepy slasher, the longest TV episode, and a strange convention which invited their members to leave their talents at the door ! And if you were in it for sex and violence; watch the first movie better. Actually, I was tortured by this movie's privation, it's more like a needy child that his parents stripped him from everything. In short : Movies like this created the Razzie award ! To be objective, one thing attracted my attention, in a positive way : the white trousers that (Stone) wore in the last scene; it was lovely and catchy.. like NO other thing in the movie !