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Cruel Intentions (1999)
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Reviews Counted:76
Fresh:36
Rotten:40
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: Even in a slick package and an attractive cast, the movie succumbs to bad acting and a bad script.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Director Roger Kumble transfers the DANGEROUS LIASONS tale to Manhattan, where wealthy prep school student Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) bets her stepbrother Sebastian (Ryan Phillipe) that he... [More]
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair
Director: Roger Kumble
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Reviews for Cruel Intentions
Entertaining. Engaging. A calculated guilty pleasure.
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Overbaked, overproduced, and overliterary!
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Nasty, profane and wickedly entertaining!
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Top CriticThe incest, drug use, and sex is there for all to see; unfortunately, the mean spirited characters become downright depressing to watch, especially when intended for a teenage audience.
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Kumble's attempt to mine anguish of tragic proportions becomes no more than a display of sappy melodrama.
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Deliciously cunning.
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Roger Kumble gives Cruel Intentions a darkly glossy, upscale look, but he has mixed results with his young cast.
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The likes of Glenn Close and John Malkovich have given way to unconvincing actors who can't grasp the concept that roles of this complexity require more than good looks.
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Top CriticFirst-time writer-director Roger Kumble has misinterpreted the source material's stinging sense of irony, replacing it it with pure camp in an effort to get cheap laughs. And it will get laughs -- just not the way he intended.
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Campy and trashy!
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This film is not to be taken seriously. Laugh along, and you might just enjoy it!
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Surprisingly entertaining until the last reel.
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Neither the characters nor the events are exactly the same as those of the novel, but some of the same spirit comes across.
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Top CriticA 90210 rerun on Viagra!
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Top CriticDeliciously trashy!
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Foxy, snotty, enjoyably trashy!
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It works only sporadically, and more as a comic outing than as a vicious battle of sexual predation.
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