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35
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Original Sin
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content and some violence
Starring
Antonio Banderas,
Angelina Jolie,
Thomas Jane,
and
Allison Mackie
Set in Cuba in the early 1900's, this is a sexy, suspenseful thriller about the dangerous and sometimes lethal power of love and obsession. (MGM)
| GENRE(S): |
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Cornell Woolrich (novel Waltz Into Darkness)
Michael Cristofer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Michael Cristofer
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 26, 2002
Video: March 26, 2002
Theatrical: August 3, 2001
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie is not intended to be subtle. It is sweaty, candle-lit melodrama, joyously trashy, and its photography wallows in sumptuous decadence.

70
Chicago Reader
Staff (Not Credited)
Retained my interest and sympathy -- at least until the nonsensical ending,

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Jolie and Banderas are two hot actors, in many senses of the word, and their scenes together have a lewd excitement.
60
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Ridiculous, yes, but in an eminently watchable way. Most of the plot twists work surprisingly well, and the frequently naked leads work up some genuine chemistry.

60
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Lavish and florid, the corny venture falls into so-bad-it's-good territory.

50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been.
50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's not nearly as mediocre a two hours as the trailers would have you think.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The lead performances are very strong -- few actors possess as much sheer physical presence as this pair -- but their dialogue is stilted, as though lost in transit from a Victorian hothouse.

50
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Banderas has some very effective moments, but in his emotional scenes, Cristofer has him screaming his lines into Jolie's face with such a spritzing fury, she might have filed a union grievance.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Aspires to blasphemy but achieves only banality.

40
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
An erotic thriller with flaws.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
How bad, really, could it be? I couldn't have guessed.

30
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
The director belabors every moment, forgetting that pulp tales need to be told quickly, lest the viewer have time to second-guess.

30
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
It's too labored and ponderous to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good amusement. Original Sin is merely an old-fashioned bore.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Wesley Morris
Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.

25
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Even the lovemaking scenes between two of Hollywood's most attractive stars -- often shot from above, like Cinemax soft porn -- are so unerotic, they make your skin crawl.
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
A first-class snoozer.

25
USA Today
Mike Clark
It's one bad apple.

20
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
An early scene inside a theater seems intended to wink at Sin's critics: "Disgusting! Cheap melodrama," a lady sniffs during intermission. It's a neatly reflexive acknowledgement of what we ourselves are watching, but even at that, our filmmaker is praising himself too extravagantly by half.
20
New Times (L.A.)
Bill Gallo
Anyone who expects a little drama with their screen sex will have to go elsewhere.

20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Everything in this film is forgettable, right down to bongos pounding on the soundtrack to indicate a quickening of the pulse.

10
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
Doesn't even have earnestness going for it -- a tepid, blindly assembled post-noir.

10
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
About half a notch above disaster.


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