SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

tarekofsyria 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 !

pugslikepizza From the characters to the plot to how everything escalated is just bad. Like dramatic hypocriticaly bad if that's even possible. Sorry

TonyMontana96 (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.

Finfrosk86 Wow, talk about your overrated movies, huh?Well, overrated in terms of popularity, I guess. The critics didn't really love it afaik, but it sure is one movie most people have heard of. Pretty popular back in the day.So, what do we have here? This is clearly made for teens/young adults. I wont explain the plot, I don't think reviews should do that. Anyway.It's not bad, it's not exactly boring, but it's not exactly a roller coaster ride, either. While it's not bad, some of the acting comes off as pretty bad, though. At least the acting from Selma Blair. Is she supposed to be mentally challenged or something? She behaves really weird at times. The other actors are OK. Reese Witherspoon I thought was pretty good.The main problem with the movie is that it's a little dull. You never really get that "wow, I wanna see how this ends!"-feeling, and in these movies you need that.The ending is also really poor. You'll probably go: "what the hell"!? with a silly look on your face. I saw this with my girlfriend, and we were like: "what the hell"?! with a silly look on our face. (not that we share a face or anything, we ain't freaks! leave us alone!)So yeah, there you have it. I am disappoint.