Basic Instinct’’’s biggest problem is the way it was criticized by the critics. Everybody thinks it’s just some dumb sex thriller in which Sharon Stone has sex with Michael Douglas. Yes, there is a lot of sex in this movie but, that’s not all there is to it. There is a good murder mystery at the same time. People are very prejudice when they haven’t even seen it. Well maybe you should let go of your prejudice and give ’’Basic Instinct’’ a try.
The movie starts off fast. A famous retired rock-and-roll star called Johnny Boz is murdered and the principal suspect is his girlfriend, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone). The detective investigating this case is Nick Curren (Michael Douglas) and his sidekick and at the same time best friend Gus (George Dzundza). Along the way, the two detectives discover a lot about Catherine and her past. For one thing, she inherited 110 million dollars when her parents were killed in a boating ’’accident’’. She is also a writer and appeared to have written a book about a retired rock-and-roll star who gets murdered by his girlfriend and is writing another one about a detective getting killed by his girlfriend and Douglas is the main character for this book.
There is much more to the movie than what I have written in this summary but I figured that if you were going to watch the movie you wouldn’t want to know too much. Michael Douglas gives a strong performance and Sharon Stone dominates the screen with dangerously seducing personality. After watching this, it isn’t hard to believe she won those prizes at the Blockbuster entertainment awards for best actress as well as most desirable female of 1992.