Cruel Intentions (1999)

Cruel Intentions is the kind of film that starts out with promise, it had a nice dynamic between characters(even if the acting is so good) an openness about sexuality and a general charm about it but quickly falls down into a rusty bucket of tired romantic cliche's that lead to a rather baffling and disappointing end.
The film is actually based off the 'Les Liaisons dangereuses'(Dangerous Liasons) a french novel written in 1782, but sets it among wealthy teenagers in modern New York. The attempt to put it in such a setting is rather intriguing it's just a shame it executed in the wrong kind of way, I feel like a more farcical unrestrained approach might have worked better and like I said the first half seemed to take things in the right kind of direction, but then in just turns into something more bland and sappy and loses it's potential to be something quite good. Shame really.**