SummarySet in a maximum-security prison, a psychiatrist (Gooding) examines an anthropologist (Hopkins) who was retrieved from the African jungles where he had lived for several years amongst the apes.
Directed By:Jon Turteltaub
Written By:Gerald Di Pego, Daniel Quinn
Instinct
Metascore
Mixed or Average
43
User score
Generally Favorable
6.6
My Score
Drag or tap to give a rating
Hover and click to give a rating
Not available in your country?
ExpressVPN
Get 3 Extra months free
$6.67/mth
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
9% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
65% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
26% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
70
Although Instinct is strictly a Hollywood formula picture, it's such an efficiently executed one, built around two such outstanding actors, that for the most part you won't mind.
60
The medium is more palatable than the saccharine message because Hopkins and Gooding know how to put on a show.
50
A greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as "Gorillas in the Mist" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," making it something of a trained chimp, one that apes a lot of good movies while making itself look ridiculous.
50
You could be forgiven for thinking -- occasionally -- that you just stumbled into "The Silence of the Apes."
40
In the end, Powell thanks his doctor for sharing the journey, but audiences who sit through this zoologically daft back-to-nature clinker may feel far less charitable.
38
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.
20
In search of inspiration and the human spirit triumphant, they managed to cook up a pot of sanctimonious, reductive claptrap (which the credits confess was only "inspired" by Quinn's book) that's not in the least instructive or entertaining.
User score
Generally Favorable
52% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
36% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
12% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Feb 21, 2012
4
Come on now... as much as they might try to disguise it, this is just a vehicle to make Anthony Hopkins play another Hannibal Lecter-esque character. Not bad but I'll bet there's no more than a handful of folks in the world who's seen it more than once.
Mar 24, 2024
0
Une vague et petite histoire neuneu pleine de bons sentiments bien mièvres et malgré le très bon Anthony Hopkins, on y croit pas une putain de nanoseconde à ce merdier. Les gorilles sont gentils et sympas, les hommes sont méchants et patati et patata et tout le tralala… Eh ho vous nous prenez vraiment pour des cons dans cette misérable fable écolo-con ou quoi…? Quant à Cuba Gooding Junior, il n’a pas l’étoffe du tripatouilleur de cerveau intelligent mais plutôt l’habit du gars abruti et dépassé par les évènements qui pisse contre le vent, englué dans cette bouse jusqu’au cou.
