Cruel Intentions (2019)

Fresh and Exciting

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I saw this movie today and it was erotic and sexy but it's story is not that good you will enjoy it in start but will become bored after some time.

Fab cast and very compelling plot . def a cult classic and a big reflection of the 90s level of talent young actors had . must see !

A playboy with an impressive history and notoriety makes a bet with his mischievous step-sister. He will have to sleep with a girl determined to wait until true love in order to take his sister for a ride, or lose his beloved and expensive convertible.It's an interesting, thrilling, sensual but also funny movie which shows that ultimately everyone can change if the right conditions are met, while other's cruel actions can tend to be limitless until the inevitable ending unexpectedly comes, an strikes with a huge blow. Unfortunately, its simplistic plot isn't able to sustain the main intrigue while the finale is quite disappointing, even easily avoidable. It's good in what it tries to achieve but an average movie in every other aspect.

(Originally reviewed: 16/03/2017) An interesting premise, but after the first half, which is admittedly interesting, it boils down to some laughable melodrama and an atrocious conclusion. The acting is actually mostly decent from Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillipe but Reese Wetherspoon who plays the principals daughter is merely passable, and there are some really awful performances from the talentless Selma Blair, who is always on her back these day's or giving out pleasure, but can't be competent enough to show believable emotion to a jock that is secretly a homosexual and sleepwalks through the picture doing nothing worth his hefty pay checks; and yet he's not the only one, and did we really need a small homosexual side story; because it felt very forced, as well as thing's like racism which also features and it's many clichés where the teenage girl forgives the boy and then five minutes later they've broke up again, give me a damn break.The first half is intriguing enough because it had an involving narrative; it did establish character's well, and has some decent dialogue during this period, but it fails to capitalise on its interesting build up and instead opts to turn into a predictable romantic story, with one of the stupidest last twenty or so minutes in recent film history. Luckily the picture has some positives though; there are some sexy moments, including two women locking lips, and the sexual vibe of the picture between some of the characters is effective, and I did like the look of the picture, its shot well and appropriately set.However some of the dialogue later on is laughably bad, there is some unintentionally embarrassing sequences, including Blair jumping on Phillipe and him pushing her off the bed, and a hilariously bad sequence where Tara Reid of American Pie has been duped by Phillipe, and is screaming to her mother on the phone and is constantly screaming loudly; and it didn't come off as it should of; it was just hilarious, which happened one too many times in a picture that should not be this funny. The writing completely suckers the actor's upon its idea to have a confrontation scene that has pretty much, no depth and makes little sense, it results in Phillipe been hit in the legs by a moving car, and then there's the remembering him sequence at the end, and you know the rest, not only is it uninspired and unoriginal, it's borderline ridiculous. The makers never gets its tone right either and never sticks to its sense of humour very well, and it becomes completely joyless for the most part.Roger Kumble's direction may be decent, but his screenplay from just after the hour mark is an unintentional joke, just like his film, and I was hoping to like this film but it's just too melodramatic and laughable and suffers from a second half that is riddled with more clichés than Cameron's Titanic; Cruel Intentions is simply a poor film that could have been a lot better.