thisanant A drama centered on human nature , its corruption and redemption , aptly rated R , best performances of the cast , but it may make people with weak stomachs nauseous , the building tension , the truth about our ability to destroy others .

marieltrokan The 1999 adaptation, Cruel Intentions, is a film which is an error that doesn't deserve to be betrayed - an injury that doesn't deserve to be betrayed. It shouldn't make any sense, that an injury can have the right to be honoured. An injury is pain, and it's grief and it's loss. A loss is intolerable, in actual fact - so Cruel Intentions actually translates to being a film which is an intolerance that doesn't deserve to be itself. From a casual perspective, of life, it's literally impossible to experience an intolerance. With this being the case, Cruel Intentions is a film which takes the very root concept of an impossibility and turns it into a mystery. Mystery is connected to impossibility, and therefore certainty is connected to possibility - all possibility is certain.And then that's when Cruel Intentions finds itself in a very awkward, and in a very messed up position: Cruel Intentions connects certainty to possibility, however, it's made this connection under the precarious terms of having also connected impossibility to certainty as well.Unfortunately for Cruel Intentions, it's just a no-brainer: connecting both possibility and impossibility to certainty is one of the most intellectually brainless things that's possible. How is it even remotely sane, that certainty is made into something that's simultaneously possible and impossible?A certainty is a fact. A fact isn't a possibility, and yet it's also a fact that a fact can't be an impossibility either. Where does the insanity end?Because of its lack of focus, and because of its lack of discipline and its lack of vision, the 1999 film Cruel Intentions is the absolute brainlessness of not giving a reason for why neither possibility and impossibility deserve to be distinguished from each other

gavin6942 Two wealthy step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to de-flower the new headmaster's daughter (Reese Witherspoon) before the start of term.Having gone to high school in the latter half of the 1990s, this was one of those films that really defined a generation. All the big stars of the day were in it, and at least one 9Witherspoon) has one on to bigger and better things. At the time I was not aware that this was a remake of a 1980s film. I found it to be brilliant and quite deviously original.I now know that it is a remake, but think no less of it because of this. In many ways, this film is even more powerful. John Malkovich did a fine job capturing what spoiled aristocrats can do, but it is all the more troublesome what spoiled teenagers can do.

Davis P This film is apparently based or very loosely derived from the classic 80s film Dangerous Liaisons, which I learned just recently. I think people are wrong when they say that you can't do that with high school characters, 17 or 18 year olds are adults, they can have sex, get hurt, feel like killing themselves, or die. This can be done in high school, and I feel like the film did it well. Sarah Michelle Gellar was my favorite character, not because she's evil, but because I think she was PERFECT as Kathryn!! I feel like Ryan Philipe and Reese Witherspoon were great in their roles also. Now, for the movies faults, no. 1 is that kiss, yah the famous one, that was pretty pointless and unnecessary, what was it Just trying to keep the guys entertained. Stupid! No. 2, some of Cecil's lines were pretty stupid and weird, and Selma Blair as Cecil was a little awkward at moments, like the while Secret Society dance thing, um just no!! But overall a 7/10 is perfectly fair. A pretty good teen and adult film. Oh, almost forgot, I loved how they ended it with Kathryn, I'm not gonna say how they did it, watch it for yourself.