Thirteen years, and a lot of plastic surgery, on from her last murderous outing Sharon Stone returns as beaver flashing psychopath Catherine Trammel.
After screwing/ butchering half of San Francisco she now satisfies her homicidal tendencies in London, and kicks off proceedings here by killing a sex crazed Premiership footballer – played, rather appropriately, by dogging aficionado Stan Collymore – in his sports car.
After escaping a murder rap on some hair brained technicality she then sets her sights on criminal psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass (Morrissey), the man who has diagnosed her as having a “Risk Addiction”.
They say:
Total Film: "Preposterous yet possessing a car crash voyeur lure. Morrissey and Thewlis deliver, director Caton-Jones is a pro, and Stone, erm, sucks.”
Empire: "Though as expensive and high styled as its star, this isn’t much of an improvement on direct to video efforts like Single White Female 2 and The Last Seduction 2.
Guardian: “It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time. The original's complications had their own messy allure: this one is just muddled and silly.”
We say:
About three months ago a trailer for “Basic Instinct 2” was launched onto the Net featuring all manner of graphic nudity, X-rated sex and luscious lesbian loving.
Men across the land were instantly hooked; “Risk Addiction” was going to be just as outrageous as the 1992 soft-porn classic. Or so we thought.
In fact, it was all a clever ruse dreamed by the studio’s PR team who refused to let anyone see the film before its release in an effort to protect this illusion.
In reality, virtually all of this graphic content has been axed and what you actually get is more like a two hour episode of Footballer’s Wives - but with slightly worse acting.
They say that to beat an addiction you have to hit rock bottom first and Stone gives it her best shot here. Hamming it up in a laughable caricature of her former role it is difficult to tell if this is actually a spoof of the original.
“Risk Addiction” is basically a cheap rehash of the first story minus the mystery, thrills and sex, and the constant references back to the original just serve to remind us how fake this new version looks – much like Stone’s silicone tits.
Extras:
The highlight of this unnecessary extras package (surely no one who has seen the film will want to have anything more to do with it?) is Caton Jones’ unintentionally hilarious director’s commentary.
Praising the actors’ professionalism and congratulating himself on the final results, it is difficult to know if he is joking or has perhaps had one too many “sharpeners” and is getting confused with his excellent Rwandan civil war movie, “Shooting Dogs” - released on the same day back in March.
Elsewhere, there is an 11 minute featurette entitled “Between The Sheets” that covers little more than the opening car crash scene, and a selection of pointless deleted scenes that don’t even have the decency to include any of the X rated sex scenes promised in the salacious Internet trailer.
CAST
Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis,
Hugh Dancy, Charlotte Rampling, Stan Collymore
DIRECTOR
Michael Caton-Jones
TIME
114 mins
POSTED...
Mon 3 Apr 2006 at 8:05am
