The skill is gone: Minus acting chops, Stone tonelessly reprises star role'BASIC INSTINCT 2' (star)1/2.(Movie review)

From: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) | Date: March 31, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Phillips

Mar. 31--It's mainly a chore, but "Basic Instinct 2" features the funniest opening-credits sequence since "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Fourteen years after her affair with the surly patsy played by Michael Douglas in the first "Basic Instinct," here's crime novelist and uber-vixen Catherine Tramell, played by Sharon Stone, zooming around London at night in her little sports car alongside her latest ill-fated lover. With her foot on the gas pedal, the speedometer approaching 110 m.p.h. and her focus strictly on her own desires, the car careens ...

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