Reclaim (2014)

While in the Dominican Republic, an American couple - one of the pair, Ryan Phillipe in a defiantly white tee - falls victim to a human trafficking scam that proves so dull a badly animated and wholly unnecessary cgi car-dangling-from-a-cliff sequence is thrown in towards the movie's end in an effort to liven things up, but it doesn't and nor do the repetitive oh-no-the-bad-guy-(John-Cusack)-rises-again (and chases the couple through the forest again) endscenes.

★☆☆☆☆

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Just 17 years old, this biting comedy of manners - Dangerous Liaisons transported to NYs Upper East Side - has already dated terribly, especially in respect to the gay-shaming that features heavily in its plot, but if you can view the movie as a product of its homophobic time, there's a lot to enjoy including Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar as the schemer who wages sex to get her half-brother (Ryan Phillipe) to bed Reese Witherspoon's straight-laced virgin Annette Hargrove - oh, and if you just want to watch it because at one point Ryan Phillipe bares all, well, there's no shame in that.

★★★☆☆

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