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This is a cheesy, fun movie. Lots of sex and lots of double crosses.

Basically it throws a bunch of attractive actresses and actors into a ridiculously twisty plot and has them get naked with each other in every possibly combination...
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This is a cheesy, fun movie. Lots of sex and lots of double crosses.

Basically it throws a bunch of attractive actresses and actors into a ridiculously twisty plot and has them get naked with each other in every possibly combination and number.

The highlight is Neve Campbell and Denise Richards making out. I guess this was somewhat cutting edge in this was part of the 90s movement to feature more lesbian and bisexual sex scenes. Probably would be less newsworthy now.

Again, fun, cheesy, twisty, back-stabbing, sex-filled thriller flick. There are worse ways to spend a Saturday.

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Posted sep 16, 2008 5:09 am pt

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I love this movie. It's very well written. I had read the summary before watching the movie and thought it was interesting so I watched the movie and even though i partly knew what was going to happen, there were so many twists and turns. I wad...
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I love this movie. It's very well written. I had read the summary before watching the movie and thought it was interesting so I watched the movie and even though i partly knew what was going to happen, there were so many twists and turns. I wad very surprised at what happened. This was a great movie, but for people like me, just fast forward all the nudity ;). It's a very good movie!

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Posted sep 1, 2008 10:10 am pt

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Typical 90's sex romp. Follow the complicated lives of some young, twenty-somethings who live in a tropical paradise and go to college every now and then. This is a violent tale of secrets and lies, double and triple-crosses; with $6.5 on the...
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Typical 90's sex romp. Follow the complicated lives of some young, twenty-somethings who live in a tropical paradise and go to college every now and then. This is a violent tale of secrets and lies, double and triple-crosses; with $6.5 on the table, only the smartest will walk away with the cash.

The movie starts out with two teenaged female students who accuse their professor of rape. It's revealed that this is just a scam to earn a huge settlement from one of the the wealthy student's mother. But not everything is as it seems. Actually, none of it is.

I love the music for this movie.

Entire movie ends with sexy results. (underline 'sexy results'.) Also, Denise Richards topless.

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Posted mar 22, 2008 3:39 am pt

• [+] Salon.com
  
  80
  One reason Wild Things works so well is that director John McNaughton sustains a darkly comic tone throughout the film without letting it degenerate into farce.

  by Michelle Goldberg | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  The movie has more twists than Chubby Checker, and as soon as you think Stephen Peters' script has used up every conceivable opportunity, it twists again.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  80
  Not only is it highly unusual, but the picture is chock-full of surprise and unexpected humor to leaven its thriller trappings.

  by Leonard Klady | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  75
  This movie has everything.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  A tricky-bordering-on-gimmicky film noir with a glaze of soft-core kink.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  It's like a three-way collision between a softcore sex film, a soap opera and a B-grade noir. I liked it.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  A passionate murder mystery with more twists than a thrashing alligator.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  70
  The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.

  by Stephen Hunter | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  67
  The fun of Wild Things -- and there's a lot of it -- is in its never-ending game of cross and double cross.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  60
  Predicated on two ideas -- that human nature is rife with perfidy and that it's important to get the cast into hot cars or bathing suits whenever possible -- Mr. McNaughton and the cinematographer Jeffrey L. Kimball (''Top Gun,'' ''True Romance'') give a decadent gloss to this far-fetched, quintuple-crossing tale.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  A sleazy, seamy, flashy, steamy, vulgar exploitation thriller that revels in every minute of its own trashiness and delivers some pretty solid -- if prurient -- entertainment before strangling in a one-twist-too-many ending.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
  50
  Contains extremely graphic sex and many twists that are unpredictable but not very compelling.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  It's amusing in a trashy sort of way.

  by Ruthe Stein | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  50
  The film almost redeems itself with what may be the longest, most elaborate post-film/pre-credits sequence in film history, but it will still disappoint anyone expecting more than watchable trash.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  40
  As double-cross becomes triple-cross becomes quadruple cross, it all gets awfully trying.

  by Andrew Collins | Read Full Review »