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- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 6 m
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 6 m
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.
Directed By: Jon Turteltaub
Written By: Gerald Di Pego, Daniel Quinn
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 6 m
- 1999
- R
- Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
- 2 h 6 m
Instinct
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6.4
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.
Directed By: Jon Turteltaub
Written By: Gerald Di Pego, Daniel Quinn
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
65% Mixed
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15 Reviews
26% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
43
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
65% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
26% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
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.
The medium is more palatable than the saccharine message because Hopkins and Gooding know how to put on a show.
A greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as "Gorillas in the Mist" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," making it something of a trained chimp, one that apes a lot of good movies while making itself look ridiculous.
You could be forgiven for thinking -- occasionally -- that you just stumbled into "The Silence of the Apes."
In the end, Powell thanks his doctor for sharing the journey, but audiences who sit through this zoologically daft back-to-nature clinker may feel far less charitable.
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.
In search of inspiration and the human spirit triumphant, they managed to cook up a pot of sanctimonious, reductive claptrap (which the credits confess was only "inspired" by Quinn's book) that's not in the least instructive or entertaining.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 User Ratings
6.4
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Awards
Genesis Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Csapnivalo Awards
• 1 Nomination
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 1 Nomination
