Catherine Trammel (Sharon Stone) is back. After uncrossing her legs and rendering a whole new definition to luscious libido in Basic Instinct, the crime novelist who likes to live through her plots is in search of one more bestseller. And if it was Detective Michael Douglas who served as her delectable guinea pig in the first film, this time she puts the blue-eyed psychoanalyst Dr Michael Glass (David Morissey) in her petri dish. Needless to say, the couch sessions turn turtle with the shrink ending up more disturbed than his psychotic patient who is ostensibly writing a thriller on a couch therapist. Mysterious Ms Stone unbuttons, uncrosses, unzips and tries her utmost to seduce the play-by-the-rules shrink. End result? He ends up breaking all the rules, including the ones about sex and violence with your patient. It's the formula of the first one which somehow manages to works in the sequel too: death, violence, lust, jealousy, revenge, Basic Instinct 2 is basic Hollywood fare, dished out with panache.