Oh, dear lord, Bad Guy. On the one hand, the script is a disaster, its ineptitude obvious long before the crash and burn finale. On the other hand, three of the four leads have both talent and screen presence, making them great fun to watch when they’re not tripping over loopy narrative threads. Part of the problem is that the director and writers appear to be telling two completely different stories. In interviews, the director mentioned wanting to create a modern version of Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black”, focused on ambitious outsiders seducing their way to the top. This element of the story is actually interesting, and, had it been fully developed, could have been twisted, sexy fun. The writers apparently never got the memo though, as they crank out a paint-by-numbers revenge drama, complete with ham-fisted moralizing, dead puppies, and incoherent plot twists. If you can tune out the big picture and focus on the pretty, there are lots of entertaining scenes full of atmospheric camera work, great music and sizzling chemistry. Just don’t expect it to all add up to anything by the time you get to the end.