Instinct starring Anthony Hopkins,
Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald
Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George
Dzundza
Instinct
Anthony Hopkins is a brilliant actor; Cuba Gooding Jr. is a talented guy
with a lot of charm. Both have recently won Oscars (Best Actor for The
Silence of the Lambs and Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire,
respectively); neither can make Instinct compelling. Hopkins plays a
brilliant anthropologist studying gorillas who entered into their world,
becoming part of their family, and who killed two park rangers in the
gorillas habitat. Gooding plays a brilliant young psychiatrist whos supposed
to evaluate Hopkins and determine whether hes fit to stand trial. Hopkins,
along with a number of other psychotics, is being held at a prison, which
serves to illustrate the movies themes about control and freedom. Its not
so much that the ideas themselves are hokum--nature versus civilization is
always a rich topic--its that Instinct boils them down to inane sound bites.
Psychology is reduced to a game in which the psychiatrists job is to trick
the patient into believing the correct thing or revealing the key that will
solve the puzzle. Theres not a credible moment in the whole movie,
despite the presence of a good cast, including Donald Sutherland
(M*A*S*H, Klute, Without Limits, and many, many others) and Maura
Tierney (TVs Newsradio). --Bret Fetzer
The subject matter, the slaughter of gorillas, is very current, and Anthony,
Cuba, and Donald are my favourite actors. A great movie.I loved it.
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