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75The movie is not intended to be subtle. It is sweaty, candle-lit melodrama, joyously trashy, and its photography wallows in sumptuous decadence.
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Retained my interest and sympathy -- at least until the nonsensical ending,
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63Jolie and Banderas are two hot actors, in many senses of the word, and their scenes together have a lewd excitement.
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60Ridiculous, 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.
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60Lavish and florid, the corny venture falls into so-bad-it's-good territory.
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50Banderas 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.
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50The 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.
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50Despite 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.
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50It's not nearly as mediocre a two hours as the trailers would have you think.
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42Aspires to blasphemy but achieves only banality.
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40An erotic thriller with flaws.
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38How bad, really, could it be? I couldn't have guessed.
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30The director belabors every moment, forgetting that pulp tales need to be told quickly, lest the viewer have time to second-guess.
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30It's too labored and ponderous to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good amusement. Original Sin is merely an old-fashioned bore.
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30Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
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25Even 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.
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25Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.
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25It's one bad apple.
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25A first-class snoozer.
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20An 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.
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20Everything in this film is forgettable, right down to bongos pounding on the soundtrack to indicate a quickening of the pulse.
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20Anyone who expects a little drama with their screen sex will have to go elsewhere.
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10Doesn't even have earnestness going for it -- a tepid, blindly assembled post-noir.
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10About half a notch above disaster.
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ChristianT5The movie looks very cheap and decadent, but its melodramatic, soapish development makes it trashy fun. Besides, the sex scenes are hot.
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sophia10beautiful and I think, emotionally captivating.