2008 Woodie Awards
Basic In-skank
Dotty Burns
Issue date: 4/19/06 Section: News
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Imagine a middle-aged Sharon Stone with lacquered skin, tightly clad in a black designer dress, sprawled over a reclining leather chair divulging in the most candid of dissertations - her latest sexual conquests - while a dour psychiatrist sitting quietly beside her admires the contours of her smooth legs that are lightly tinged with age spots.
This is a typical over-eroticized scene from "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction," which is the unforeseen sequel to the classic 1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven, a movie I have seen only in fragments, but can already assert that it is more engaging and stylish than the disaster that followed it 14 years later. While the first film might have been tastefully provacative, the second installment is no more than a smut film that stars an aged femme fatale. However, with the exception of a few age spots and some over-processed blonde hair, the 48-year-old Stone does redeem some of her former glory in the revamped role. And at times she creates a strong and enigmatic presence on screen.
The diabolic vixen enters the picture recklessly speeding around the city of London in a stylish sports car with a sedated man in the passenger seat, who turns out to be a famous football player. The man, who is evidently drugged, no doubt by Catherine, is lucid enough to start fooling around with her, and touching her in ways that are too dirty to disclose here. After getting a tad carried away, Catherine ends up driving off the road and plunging into a nearby river. Her momentary lover is trapped in the car and eventually drowns while the callous sexpot manages to escape the same fate.
The aftermath shows a cool and collected Catherine being interrogated by British police. Confounded by Catherine's relentless mind games, especially Detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis), Scotland Yard turns Catherine over to the clinical expertise of Dr. Michael Glass, a criminal psychiatrist. David Morrissey, who plays Dr. Glass, is deplorably unmoving right from the very start. I'm not sure if the role requires Morrissey to be completely devoid of a personality. It is a wonder that Catherine would take an interest in this guy. His fluid British accent and his charming good looks are all he has to offer to the silver screen.
This is a typical over-eroticized scene from "Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction," which is the unforeseen sequel to the classic 1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven, a movie I have seen only in fragments, but can already assert that it is more engaging and stylish than the disaster that followed it 14 years later. While the first film might have been tastefully provacative, the second installment is no more than a smut film that stars an aged femme fatale. However, with the exception of a few age spots and some over-processed blonde hair, the 48-year-old Stone does redeem some of her former glory in the revamped role. And at times she creates a strong and enigmatic presence on screen.
The diabolic vixen enters the picture recklessly speeding around the city of London in a stylish sports car with a sedated man in the passenger seat, who turns out to be a famous football player. The man, who is evidently drugged, no doubt by Catherine, is lucid enough to start fooling around with her, and touching her in ways that are too dirty to disclose here. After getting a tad carried away, Catherine ends up driving off the road and plunging into a nearby river. Her momentary lover is trapped in the car and eventually drowns while the callous sexpot manages to escape the same fate.
The aftermath shows a cool and collected Catherine being interrogated by British police. Confounded by Catherine's relentless mind games, especially Detective Roy Washburn (David Thewlis), Scotland Yard turns Catherine over to the clinical expertise of Dr. Michael Glass, a criminal psychiatrist. David Morrissey, who plays Dr. Glass, is deplorably unmoving right from the very start. I'm not sure if the role requires Morrissey to be completely devoid of a personality. It is a wonder that Catherine would take an interest in this guy. His fluid British accent and his charming good looks are all he has to offer to the silver screen.
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