Understanding and appreciating the work of Verhoeven is a new experience for me, and I saved watching this until the end. Glad I did, watching this raw to Verhoeven would have been a mistake. There’s a profound lack of subtlety throughout this movie, but it avoids giving itself away completely.
Basic Instinct is the horniest of thrillers, regularly doing unnecessary things in the most Verhoeven of ways. It is very 1992 and somehow timeless.
Love a movie that does A LOT but somehow sticks the landing.
Flawed but excellent.
