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Instinct | 
| Director: Jon Turteltaub
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza
Category: DVD
Buy Used: CDN$ 52.07
Rating:  87 reviews
Format: Import, Ntsc
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), German (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Croatian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
EAN: 7321922346414
ASIN: B00004T8BN
Theatrical Release Date: June 4, 1999
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
Condition: Mailed from Los Angeles,USA, or Germany. It takes 1-4 weeks for delivery.Because of tax reason NO USA address SHIPPING
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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 IThe Silence of the Lambs/I and Best Supporting Actor for IJerry Maguire/I, respectively); neither can make IInstinct/I 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 who's supposed to evaluate Hopkins and determine whether he's fit to stand trial. Hopkins, along with a number of other psychotics, is being held at a prison, which serves to illustrate the movie's themes about control and freedom. It's not so much that the ideas themselves are hokum--nature versus civilization is always a rich topic--it's that IInstinct/I boils them down to inane sound bites. Psychology is reduced to a game in which the psychiatrist's job is to trick the patient into believing the correct thing or revealing the key that will solve the puzzle. There's not a credible moment in the whole movie, despite the presence of a good cast, including Donald Sutherland (IM*A*S*H/I, IKlute/I, IWithout Limits/I, and many, many others) and Maura Tierney (TV's INewsradio/I). I--Bret Fetzer/I
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Surprisingly good! May 12, 2004
M. Quinn (Bountiful, UT United States)
I'd heard some criticism of this movie, basically that it was the same thing they did with Hannibal Lecter, same actor, so why bother seeing it, yadda yadda. Not so! I was expecting a different type of movie, and was VERY pleasantly surprised by Instinct. I agree with some of criticism of stereotypical prison guards, eccentric inmates in the psych wing... yet it works. It's worth your while!
 You do not need to watch this movie to figure it out March 13, 2004
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
As is more and more often the case the trailer for Instinct provides what you need to know about this movie. Noted anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins) was reported missing in the jungles of Africa and lost for almost two years. It was said that he was walking amongst the gorillas that he was studying. Then he murdered a couple of game wardens with a wooden club. Now he has been returned to the United States and placed in the mental ward of a prison where he refuses to speak. The case is discussed by a pair of shrinks: Dr. Ben Hillard (Donald Sutherland), who is old and wise, and Dr. Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding, Jr.), who is young and smart. Hillard engages briefly in deep thought and then muses: He lives with the animals, takes on their behavior, and becomes one. How does that happen?pOf course that is what the movie is about, and young Dr. Caulder is going to go have a series of confrontational sessions with Dr. Powell in prison, get him to talk, and eventually find out the answers to the big question. But as soon as Hillard articulated the big question I had my hand up because I was pretty sure I knew the answer. I mean I saw Gorillas in the Midst but even without that big clue common sense would pretty much tell you why somebody studying primates in the jungle would favor the apes and side with them against human beings. There might be some surprises in terms of the details, but certainly the general idea here is clear even before we actually learn the answer. However, to be fair, this film gets credit for not having a sexual relationship develop between young Dr. Caulder and Powell's daughter Lyn (Maura Tierney),pWill Anthony Hopkins staring at an inquisitor in a prison setting it is hard not to see parallels between Instinct and Silence of the Lambs. Caulder admits at one point that he has become a student as well as a therapist and this 1999 film is one where the patient may well do more for the doctor than the other way around. Added to this film are your standard roster of prison goons, apathetic doctors, and eccentric prisoner-patients in a simplistic combining of The Shawshank Redemption and One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. Consequently Caulder not only has to bring Powell back to sanity and his family, but has to fight to reform the corrupt system that he finds.pThe extras on this DVD consist of the trailer for Instinct, as a reminder that it was a lot better than the actual movies, and then pictures of other movies you could have watched instead of this one. Apparently someone in a decision-making capacity recognized that most people watching this movie were probably to hit the eject button as soon as the credits, so why waste time and money adding extras nobody was going to want to see?
 Beautiful movie! January 12, 2004
Hasmita CHANDER (India)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As another reviewer said, one of the really good things this movie did was mention Daniel Quinn's book in the beginning.pI have just finished reading Ishmael by Quinn (which I wouldn't have known of hadn't it been for this movie), and I must say that Instinct's scriptwriter has done an excellent job of creating a story *based* on the thoughts of the book but making it so much more interesting and dramatic. The movie has IMPACT. It caught my attention when I saw the trailer on TV, and I knew I had to watch it, and I *drank* it in like I had longed for it for ages. pIt's a beautiful, excellent movie.
Another MASTERPIECE with ANTHONY HOPKINS ! ****** October 18, 2003
BOT Alain (PAS DE CALAIS FRANCE)
HE WANDER IN THE JUNGLE WITH ITS FRIENDS THE GORILLAS WHEN THEY ARE ALMOST ALL TOGETHER KILLEDS BY SMUGLLERS AND HE WANT TO AVENGE THEM HIS ANIMAL INSTINCT IS COME BACK FOR ALWAYS FOREVER ! He is strong ! VERY STRONG AND INTELLIGENT ! He almost pass to kill these MURDERERS ONLY with its hands but he is alone in front of the killers, so, he is beared away in a psychiatric prison far away of his PARADISE he gived up his daugther thor that as much as every thing he khas known in his life ONLY a young man can be able to understand Witch he has made, and who is he .... NOW !!! And he want see again his PARADISE !!! A PERFECT MOVIE !!!
Superb Film About Nature Of Humankind! September 18, 2002
Barron Laycock (Temple, New Hampshire United States)
This is an intriguing film, not so much because of its improbable story line, but because of its intelligent and provocative interest in ideas that are hardly mainstream. Those of us involved with the environmental movement are often exasperated by the unknowing and unfeeling arrogant presumption of natural superiority many human leaders seem to have regarding use and disposition of the world's resources, both natural and otherwise. In this thoughtful film Sir Anthony Hopkins brings his prestige to bear on such heady issues, and forwards an undeniable argument regarding those presumptions. pThe format of the movie is such that it is necessary to piece together this message, and this is the service that Cuba Gooding provides here as the bearer of logic and modern thought, presuming to examine Hopkins character for mental defect due to the extreme nature of Hopkins outside the mental hospital he is now ensconced in. Yet the evolving dialogue and plot as it slowly builds is really the uncovering of the ways in which such arrogance and presumptive claims for natural stewardship over the natural order are laid bare for what they are, groundless and silly. pOf course, the fact that such ideas are expressed in a movie made for popular consumption is rare enough, but to do so with a message that is clearly enunciated and not overlaid with the weight of its own dramatic detritus is very powerful indeed. The director is clearly warning us that our misuse and rape of the environment has terrible consequences, but unfortunately not just for us or for humankind, but rather for the whole ecological superstructure on which life on this planet depends. The idea that we are false "Gods' and false prophets is made chillingly clear by some of Hopkins monologues. pThe plot is unusual but not all that plausible; it is unlikely anyone who found his way back to nature would return under any circumstances. Indeed, one of the more profound undercurrents of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs series of Tarzan novels was the way in which he (Burroughs) constantly counter-posed the rather Victorian idea of the superiority and infallibility of Human progress and civilization on the one hand with the predictably calamitous results of that civilization on the other. Hopkins does much the same thing here, but with much more articulate and even profound use of language and story. This is a very interesting and worthwhile movie, and one I highly recommend. Enjoy!
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