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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780788817878
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788817876
Label: Walt Disney Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
MPN: D18152D
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Walt Disney Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 126 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Theatrical Release Date: June 04, 1999
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything in an attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.and the bizarre actions of this madman.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 6-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
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
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I gave it the half-way mark because that it exactly what it is, an attempt to make people feel sympathetic for an "under-manned, inferior" species of animal (picked on, and defeated). The performances are pretty well done, and the music by Danny Elfman suits it pretty well, but, definitely has the underlying theme of trying to make you (yes, I'll say it again) empathize for the gorillas and/or way of life the character of Anthony Hopkins has chosen. However most of the movie follows/tries to cash ... Read More
Rating:  -
The subject matter, the slaughter of gorillas, is very current, and Anthony, Cuba, and Donald are my favourite actors. A great movie.I loved it.
Rating: -
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 ... Read More
Rating: -
This could be and probably would be an excellent movie if it weren't for the fact that music played loudly throughout the film drowns out the characters' words.
I found myself tempted to turn the movie off due to the irritation caused by the disruption, but felt the movie worth watching, regardless.
Rating: -
Just another "Man-is-bad,nature-is-good" movie,the point of which is to show brain dead audiences that if humans would just vanish from the earth, the stately animals would prosper. Which is not to disparage the acting of Hopkins and Gooding -- they turn in outstanding performances. And the plot is realistic -- barely so -- and the movie keeps your attention throughout. Except for the two key actors, most of the others are average and uninspiring. And, when the movie's over, you know you have just watched ... Read More
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