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Tuesday, Apr 18, 2006

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Get stoned for some quirky fare

COOL KILLER: Sharon Stone lives up to her image yet again in `Basic Instinct 2.'

Basic Instinct 2 (English)

Cast: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Big boys play at night. Right? Well, maybe, but big girls do it all the time. At least if they happen to answer to the name Sharon Stone in the celluloid world. Then the intimate act has many meanings, now a toy, now a tool, now a weapon.

She uses all her charms to sail through this role of a serial killer. Yes, she kills them softly, but before that comes the wild act. And the guys are gagged the moment they feel infinity is but real.

It is an audacious plot of a woman writer who uses her words and gender to advantage. If she leaves you disarmed with her words, she stuns men into eternal silence in bed.

Of course, she is not doing it all because she is a killer by habit but as a writer needs new ways of murder to infuse an element of novelty into her plots.

Sharon as Catherine Tramell, a writer who seldom writes, often bites - in more ways than one - is quite measured in her approach. She comes as a woman who knows her mind. And is aware of the changing contours of her body.

Hot appetiser

She is quite endearing in her ways, even when she uses the words they do when they get wilder than wild. She makes a clinical talk on sex appear appetising enough!

Keeping her able company in this Michael Caton-Jones film is David Morrissey as a shrink who wants to discover how a woman can drive a man to death, and manages to get intimate at the same time. Of course, we know what happens in such therapeutic sessions: the healer needs to be healed!

Watch this sequel if you are interested in a quirky murder mystery.

Else, take some time out for Sharon. And enjoy an unfazed approach to the timeless act. Hang on till the end, like at other times, the real pleasure here comes at the end.

ZIYA US SALAM

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