Instinct
by Jon Turteltaub
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, George Dzundza, Maura TierneyDirector: Jon Turteltaub
Brand: HOPKINS,ANTHONY
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-11-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Instinct
Movie Review: Conviction and Confinement.
Summary: 3 Stars
This account of a wild and wooly Anthony Hopkins as a killer par excellence who was rescued from his prison in a jungle somewhere and then confined illegally in the U. S. He had long white hair, strength of an ape (mountain gorillas), and look like Hemingway in 1954. Like the animals he studied so dilligently, he had the instinct to fight for his survival. Dr. Calvin writes about the marvelous ability of humans to think and choose to make decisions, solve problems, forecast the future and even create ethics, all using this mental Darwinism.
In the confinement in America, he refused to speak or socialize with the other prisoners, all of whom had mental problems. The jail was full of psychotics and other mental criminals, caged like an animal and abused by the guards. The cruelty in the guards' behavior caused a riot. Ethan kept remembering base camp and what happened there, and reflected on his success and failure to protect the apes. When he decided to trust the doctor, he asked him "Are you free?" He apparently he trusted him because he looked like the apes in the jungle. He needed someone to listen about the murders. "I used to be you; see what I have become."
What have you lost when someone else takes over control? It takes a lot of confidence. Now he has an opportunity to better himself by appearing in court. Was it a Good Conviction like Lewis Weinstein's account in the book of the same name? He had to hold on to show where the violence came from, killing the apes. and acted like a mad man. Violence can be provoked. Funny how things can change overnight. Loving, petting, kissing, holding hands -- you put trust in a person who was not in control. All was lost, taken away by force. "You taught me how to live."
Ethan regressed after the guard's attack. It is hard to see a grown man cry. Failure makes anyone cry, even a woman. He thanked the young doc for sharing this journey with him, your friend; then he returned to the wild. This book tells how chimpanzies can't talk and why we forget our dreams.
Summary of Instinct
Don't miss Academy Award(R)-winners Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE INNOCENT) and Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, JERRY MAGUIRE, PEARL HARBOR) in this highly provocative psychological thriller from the hit-making director of PHENOMENON and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING! In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell (Hopkins) is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder (Gooding). Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his very life on the line -- in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman! Also starring Donald Sutherland (A TIME TO KILL, DISCLOSURE) and Maura Tierney (FORCES OF NATURE, LIAR LIAR) in a first-rate cast -- Powell and Caulder's adventure of the mind is a riveting journey of discovery ... no matter what the cost!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 The Silence of the Lambs and Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire, respectively); neither can make Instinct 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 Instinct 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 (M*A*S*H, Klute, Without Limits, and many, many others) and Maura Tierney (TV's Newsradio). --Bret Fetzer
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