Instinct 1999

Critics score:
27 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Los Angeles Times: Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Strong performances! Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Regardless of how familiar the storyline and characters seem, everyone connected with the movie seems to think it's of invaluable importance. Instinct is one suffocatingly pompous flick. Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: [Hopkins and Gooding Jr.] keep Instinct afloat on its sea of simplisms through a succession of climaxes until at last it reaches its unavoidable ending. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Instinct" is a marketing hook attempting to pass itself off as a movie. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Solid directing and good acting! Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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 more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Read more

Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Instinct is the second one in a row that Gooding lifts out of mediocrity by the sheer force of his talent, intelligence and personality. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Read more

Gary Dauphin, Village Voice: Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Sloppily structured, snoozily paced! Read more