Basic Instinct 2

Basic Instinct 2 (2006) is an erotic thriller you can watch online on iFILM, bringing Sharon Stone back as novelist Catherine Tramell, this time tangled up with the law in London.

After a car crash leaves her lover dead, Tramell is sent to psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass for an evaluation. His job is to read her coldly and file a report. Instead he slides into a game with no rules, where every confession she offers is bait. Scotland Yard suspects her in a fresh death but can't pin anything down. David Morrissey plays the unravelling Glass, Charlotte Rampling his former mentor, and David Thewlis a detective who trusts none of it.

Director Michael Caton-Jones moved the action from San Francisco to a glassy, rain-slicked London, fourteen years after Paul Verhoeven's original. The sequel is chillier and more mannered than its predecessor, riding almost entirely on Stone's icy self-awareness. It's most interesting as a coda to a career-defining role rather than as a mystery on its own. Stream Basic Instinct 2 (2006) online on iFILM.