Cruel Intentions Reviews

Right now, I’m actually reading ‘Les liaisons dangereuses’ in the original French language, it is a really great book and it reminds me that, maybe, I should give this modern adaptation a 2^nd chance at some to point.  To be honest, I have always been amazed by how high rated the whole thing was and I wasn’t never really impressed by the damned thing. I don’t know, it seems to me that the whole thing was mostly loved by its target audience, the teenagers, who basically never read the book or saw the amazing version directed by Stephen Frears. Basically, it is and remains a fascinating story with some really nicely messed-up characters but, in this case, it is just a rather weak adaptation. I mean, at least, if they have pushed the eroticism as far as possible, then it could have been something slightly more interesting but, instead you get a rather vapid feature made to tease the teenagers but, eventually, it was all rather harmless. It’s like this kiss involving Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair, it seems that it is what everybody remembers about this movie and while I have to admit it, it was pretty neat, nothing else really steamy happens during the whole thing. At least, there was a pretty cool cast involving a lot of up-and-coming actors (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Joshua Jackson, Tara Reid). Anyway, to conclude, I think the damned thing is seriously overrated and I don’t think it is really worth a look