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Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

  • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr.
  • Summary: Set in a maximum-security prison, a psychiatrist (Gooding) examines an anthropologist (Hopkins) who was retrieved from the African jungles where he had lived for several years amongst the apes.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 23
  2. Negative: 6 out of 23
  1. 70
    Although Instinct is strictly a Hollywood formula picture, it's such an efficiently executed one, built around two such outstanding actors, that for the most part you won't mind.
  2. Reviewed by: Gary Dauphin
    60
    Instinct moves along at a competent clip, but it's mostly a tease.
  3. 38
    If there's anything worse than a movie hammered together out of pieces of bad screenplays, it's a movie made from the scraps of good ones.

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