Rating of
3/4
It was deliciously cruel!
MovieAddict - wrote on 02/19/12
Kathryn and Sebastian are two spoiled, bored rich kids who play with people's lives. When Kathryn makes a bet with Sebastian that he can't seduce innocent blonde virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon), Sebastian considers this a real challenge. If Kathryn wins, she gets to keep Sebastian's hot little 1956 Jaguar Roadster, and if Sebastian wins, he then gets to sleep with Katherine, something he has obsessed about ever since their parents got married. Their sadistic game begins to falter when Sebastian starts falling in love with Annette, and Kathryn realizes she has gone a little too far. Selma Blair played the naïve Cecile who was not directly involved with the bet however she ended up getting caught in the web and pulled into the story. The plot unravels as it must, fittingly themed to the old saying that what goes around comes around.
Seduction, betrayal, humor, high school and conflict fit perfectly in this one movie package called 'Cruel Intentions'. Sarah Michelle Gellar is incredible as Kathryn, bringing to the movie that villain you both despise and feel for (my very favorite kind). She was very well accompanied by the seductive Sebastian performed by Ryan Phillippe while Reese Witherspoon is delicate and innocent as the poor girl Annette "the bet" Hargrove caught in between of these cruel acts of seductive intentions.
