Movie review: Basic Instinct 2 *: 'Basic Instinct 2' goes nowhere fast.

From: The Blade (Toledo, OH) | Date: March 31, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Christopher Borrelli

Mar. 31--Little red Corvette.

Baby, you're much too fast.

Little red Corvette.

Need to find a love that's gonna last ... provided that love is into autoerotic asphyxiation, sex with anonymous men, laughably bad trashy erotic crime novels, thin jumpsuits that go down to there, murder by ice pick, mind games, rumpled British psychoanalysts, and truly horrible films that are anything but April Fool's jokes.

With due respect to Prince, the opening scene of Basic Instinct 2 features, indeed, a little red Corvette and a woman going much ...

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