One of my favorite films, its a pleasure to review. If you are looking for a clever, mature, and sophisticated teen film, look no further. A quick note- this film is rated 15. There is no nudity (apart from a very beautiful bottom, but the film is littered with profanities, and sexual references. Background. ~~~~~~~~ "Cruel Intentions" was based upon the 1782 novel "Les Liasons dangereuses" by by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The original novel was about the Marquise de Merteuil, and the Vicomte de Valmont, who get off on playing strange power games with innocent people. The book has been ...  Read the complete review

Cruel Intentions was released in 1999 amogst a rash of teen movies, many of which were adaptations of other stories. Cruel Intentions itself is a modern day remake of the 80's film Dangerous Liasons, which in itself was set in 18th Century France. Catherine (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian (Ryan Phillipe) are wealthy but bored stepsiblings, left to their own devices for the summer in a massive apartment by their parents. Sebastian has a nasty playboy reputation which he has no qualms with, whilst Catherine has an impeccable clean-cut reputation which she manages to maintain whilst hiding her rampant promiscuity and coke habit (the makings of which she ...  Read the complete review

Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) and Step sister Kathryn Mertevil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) have the lives that any teenager would want. They are popular, they are rich and beautiful and they live their lives with minimal interference from their parents. Sebastian is loved by the girls, but is fed up it's all too easy for him there is no chase. That is until he reads an article about Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) Annette is their new headmasters daughter and soon to be student at their school and the article is about how she is proud to be a virgin and that she is going to stay that way until she gets married/falls in love. This interests ...  Read the complete review

Cruel Intentions had won me over from the start with "Every Me, Every You" by Placebo as the opening track. We meet Sebastian Valmont a young man who is extremely wealthy and arrogant. He seduces women for fun and then discards them as a sort of game and even uses seduction as a weapon as we see when we meet him first, as he leaves the office of an angry psychiatrist who has been over charging. His step-sister, Kathryn, is not dissimilar. When we first meet her she is in a meeting with a mother of a girl who is just entering the school Kathryn is head-girl of. They are all clearly of New York's upper class of the Upper-East side. Kathryn agrees to ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely adore the mix of passion, deciet and love in this film. It is a very cruel combination, which i believe is the reason for such an unfortunate outcome. It really is like a 90s version of Gossip Girl the main protagonist sharing many qualities and simalarties with Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick). It features Reese Witherspoon (who is pregnant at the time) Ryan Phillipe and Sarah Michelle Gellar as the three main characters during this film. Sebastien (Phillipe) the main protagonist, is a rich young player living in the Upper East Side of New York, with his spoilt drug addict sister Kathryn. They are both highly manipulative characters, and for most of the ...  Read the complete review