Nearly a decade and a half after the original, Sharon Stone reprises her irresistible femme fatale, Catherine Tramell, still writing the trashy crime novels and still finding it hard not to act them out. This time Catherine finds herself up against an uptight but gifted criminal psychiatrist, and as before a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. Basic Instinct 2 struggles badly with the ‘why?' syndrome prevalent amongst so many belated sequels, but in the throw away spirit of Catherine's writing and with reverence to the first film this is not without some fun.