Viewers slam ‘uninspired and shallow’ TV reboot of beloved 90s film

A TV bid based connected a deed 90s movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair has been labelled ‘a inexpensive imitation of a timeless classic’.

Released successful 1999, the teen romanticist play Cruel Intentions was a modern retelling of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ 1782 caller Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Set successful New York City it followed privileged precocious school students warring for power of their field aft a brutal hazing incidental who stopped astatine thing to unafraid it, including a twisted stake to seduce the girl of their caller headmaster.

The movie is present considered a cult classical and led to a prequel successful 2000 and a sequel successful 2004.

However, a caller TV bid based connected the communicative hasn’t gone down with fans excessively good astatine all.

The Amazon Prime bid stars Sarah Catherine Hook, Zac Burgess, and Savannah Lee Smith but successful the days aft being released its lone picked up a people of 30 connected Rotten Tomatoes.

‘The amusement doesn’t enactment connected galore levels, but the worst of it is that the penning is truthful uninspired, shallow and generic,’ Greg posted connected the reappraisal site.

‘Don’t discarded your clip connected this. It’s a inexpensive imitation of a timeless classic. Stick to the archetypal movie and you volition get acold much successful each department. The acting is wooden, and the crippled isn’t improved upon. It is simply a fail, done and through,’ Mark shared.

‘I wouldn’t discarded my clip connected this corny and predictable garbage,’ different added.

Even earlier the amusement was released, galore were questioning the request for it astatine all.

‘Stop remaking classics, idiosyncratic Michelle posted connected the YouTube trailer.

Meanwhile galore others said they’d alternatively instrumentality to watching the original.

Earlier this twelvemonth the movie’s manager Roger Kumbl spoke to Metro observe the film’s 25-year day but admitted it astir apt would conflict to beryllium made successful the aforesaid mode today.

‘No. I don’t deliberation so,’ helium said erstwhile asked whether it would inactive beryllium a deed successful contiguous day. ‘We deed connected immoderate tropes that inactive beryllium today, that were inactive scandalous for its clip and are inactive scandalous today.

‘It was risky, we truly deed immoderate taboos. [Sebastian] does immoderate horrible things. But, due to the fact that of Selma’s performance, and due to the fact that of however she plays these scenes – successful the hands of different actress, this movie would person gone disconnected the rails.

‘It’s its ain small clip capsule. The information that it acceptable up earlier that you’re laughing earlier then, truthful it’s not veering. That’s wherefore the movie works successful its ain mode close now,’ helium added.

Cruel Intentions is streaming connected Amazon Prime Video.

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