Instinct Critic Reviews
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A perfect example of how solid directing and good acting can almost redeem a derivative story.Read the full review
The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.Read the full review
The medium is more palatable than the saccharine message because Hopkins and Gooding know how to put on a show.Read the full review
The warning against actors playing with dogs or children should be expanded to include men in gorilla suits.Read the full review
A mushy-headed, unintentionally funny inspirational drama that plays like a clumsy attempt to crossbreed "The Shawshank Redemption" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."Read the full review
A sloppily structured, snoozily paced psychodrama about living in harmony with nature and all the rest of that tree-hugging hooey.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
You could be forgiven for thinking -- occasionally -- that you just stumbled into "The Silence of the Apes."Read the full review
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.Read the full review
Never mind that the film's portrayal of the mentally ill is on a par with "There's Something About Mary" -- the clumsy moral that we were all better off as hunters and gatherers couldn't be sillier.Read the full review
