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1999
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Instinct
Positive Reviews
7
Negative reviews
14
Average Rating
2.2
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1.5
Were meant to share the young shrinks rapt, awed by the beast fascination.
EW
1.9
If theres anything worse than a movie hammered together out of pieces of bad screenplays, its a movie made from the scraps of good ones.
Rogerebert
3.5
Still, theres plenty of solid, intelligent content here to stir the mind and heart, assuming youre able to overlook the distinctly patronizing present ..
1.0
Yet another spiritual weepie that decries human follies and yet puts a happy face on it all.
E Film Critic
2.5
He keeps attention focused through this thrillers frequent lurches and changes of direction and is the best reason for seeing Instinct.
San Francisco Chronicle
1.5
Hopkins highly educated and sophisticated Ethan Powell is one of those monkey lovin white guys Hollywood cant get enough of.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.5
Fellow Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire, What Dreams May Come) gives an intense performance that, for the most part, works althou ..
Screen It
1.5
Theres enough triumph of the human spirit twaddle drifting through this movie to smother those precious rainforests.
Film Journal International ..
3.1
Absent the two superlative performances, there is nothing to recommend the picture.
Internet Reviews
4.0
Director Jon Turteltaub keeps both the physical action and the verbal exchanges flowing, gradually revealing the demons that arouse the scholar to mur ..
Internet Reviews
1.5
How sad to hear Oscar winners Hopkins and Gooding,Jr. utter melodramatic dialogue during most of their scenes together.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.3
one liners, retro wardrobe, bad teeth, and swinging attitude all mined for their entire worth and then some in International Man of Mystery havent got ..
Mr Brown Movies
1.3
A consistently dull, meandering motion picture that is never anything more than difficult to sit through and cannot be salvaged by the relatively unex ..
The Movie Boy
2.5
His ingenious gamble helps a paranoid patient have a breakthrough.
Movie Habit
1.5
A surprisingly tame psychological thriller with few genuine surprises.
Boxoffice Magazine
2.0
keep Instinct afloat on its sea of simplisms through a succession of climaxes until at last it reaches its unavoidable ending.
Ny Times
3.8
Caulder, I never quit .. even when Im doing something really stupid.
Ross Anthony
3.5
When Theo first talks to Powell, in the disgusting, degrading atmosphere of the ill named Harmony Bay prison, its the old dont touch him, dont look hi ..
Film Quips Online
1.9
anyone who goes to Instinct expecting a terrifying thriller will find The Serenity of the Gorillas is a long, long way from The Silence of the Lambs.
James Sanford on Film
3.0
Instinct does explore some intriguing ideas, which are showcased in the fine performances of Hopkins and Gooding.
Rochester Goes Out
1.5
A lot of naysayers dubbed it One Flew Over the Silence of the Gorillas in the Mist. And, well, they were right.
Need Coffee
1.3
The film is wretched beyond description; an act of lousy writing, feeble minded directing, contrived suspense, ungripping twists and ripped off psycho ..
Cinema Phile
2.0
A sanctimonious, heavy handed conundrum of feel good clichs and bad faith intentions.
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