Eddie Harrison film-authority.com Jul 29, 2021 1/5

...settles for a downgraded remake of the first film...

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Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Jan 31, 2021 .5/5

Stone appears to have torn a page from the soap-opera textbook of come-hither acting.

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Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting Feb 22, 2020

Glass is clearly meant to be a morally gray doctor...but that ambiguity and Morrissey's lack of sexual chemistry with Stone (who is vacant in her second go at the character) simply drains the life from this whole enterprise.

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Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Nov 20, 2019 F

This film isn't just bad, it's howlingly bad.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 21, 2018 1/4

Stone is simply awful, replacing the sexy insouciance from the first film with a beady stare that would seem more appropriate coming from a dead codfish than a calculating nympho adept at playing twisted mind games.

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Nigel Andrews Financial Times Oct 7, 2018 1/5

Morrissey gives a good impersonation of a lobotomised Liam Neeson: possibly the only way to play a character dead from the script upwards.

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David Keyes Cinemaphile.org Sep 12, 2017 1/4

There are plot developments occurring throughout the picture that have the subtlety of a carnival sideshow, and things never add up sufficiently as an intellectual exercise.

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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com Jan 26, 2014 0/4

We actually don't see very much killing at all--except, maybe, that of the careers of Morrissey and Stone.

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Tom Meek Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 2/4

Silly, shock-pandering lines like that nearly sink the film to Showgirls level.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Apr 20, 2009 C-

In spite of Sharon Stone's hearty encore performance as the ultimate femme fatale, "Basic Instinct 2" falls unbearably flat.

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Brian Marder Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 2/5

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Dragan Antulov Index.hr Jun 21, 2007 2/10

jedan od rijetkih primjera kada je publika pokazala kako, za razliku od Hollywooda, ipak ima pojma o nekim stvarima

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David Noh Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

Sadly, nothing following lives up to the prurient promise of this sequence, as the film becomes a monotonously talky, gloomy affair.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Jan 27, 2007 1/5

Poor Sharon Stone. She's still big; it's the erotic thrillers that got small.

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Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review Dec 13, 2006 1/4

...a script that is so full of cliche's that I actually knew the end of the film 10 minutes before it ended.

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Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses Oct 3, 2006 1/5

full review in Greek

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Linda Ruth Williams Sight & Sound Sep 28, 2006

This is psychoanalytic fable rewritten as pulp fiction. Perhaps that's why it's so ludicrously entertaining.

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Nigel Floyd Time Out Jun 24, 2006

As a stand-alone film, this doesn't work; but viewed through the prism of the original, it offers some twisted, self-conscious pleasures.

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 15, 2006 69/100

I won't say I didn't enjoy it; this is the kind of film that begs to be talked back to, that satisfies our highly developed taste for schadenfreude.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review May 12, 2006 2/5

Michael Caton-Jones directs with bland disinterest, but Stone hams it up with the campy relish of a drag queen doing Faye Dunaway in Mommie Dearest.

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