INSTINCT is an odd little follow-up to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, featuring Anthony Hopkins in a similarly psychotic turn as an anthropologist whose time living with gorillas in Africa has turned him feral. He now resides in prison, where Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a psychiatrist taking over his case. What follows is a film which mixes psychological thrills and spills with standard prison genre elements, including violent inmates and sadistic guards. Hopkins and Gooding Jr. are both good enough to keep you engaged by this film despite the slightly slow pace and over-familiarity of the plot elements. In the end, it's another interesting treatise on the human condition.
Review of Instinct
