Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.
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08/03/01
Original Sin (2001)
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Reviews Counted:90
Fresh:11
Rotten:79
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Late nineteenth century Cuba. Dawn. At the docks, Luis (Antonio Banderas) waits for his American mail-order bride. But, his wait seems to be in vain. Then, magically, she appears--Julia (Angelina... [More]
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Thompson, Thomas Jane
Director: Michael Cristofer
Reviews for Original Sin
Works on a sensual, insinuating level.
08/03/01
Makes for an extremely well-acted movie.
08/03/01
Unless John Travolta has a sequel to Battlefield Earth up his sleeve, or Kevin Costner has a new project in the works, they might as well hand out the Golden Raspberry Awards right now.
08/03/01
The kind of movie that keeps you on your toes waiting for the next deadly serious absurdity.
08/03/01
Cristofer's approach is relentlessly serious and dead-on, devoid of humor, wit or personality.
08/03/01
Top CriticCristofer is not able to handle subsequent double crosses. They become laughable instead of chilling.
08/03/01
It's the kind of movie you'd throw a video party around, with drinking games involving, say, a chug every time Banderas tails his wife to find out what she's really up to.
08/03/01
It is never moving or shocking. It needs to be both.
08/03/01
It's your basic, steamy black widow tale with one of the most implausible set-ups in memory.
08/03/01
A plateful of steamed corn.
08/03/01
It wants to be a nightmarish noir mystery, a steamy sex drama and a classy historical piece.
08/03/01
Loses its nerve and instead of maintaining its theme of obsession, it starts piling up absurd complications.
08/03/01
Original Sin, 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.
08/03/01
Cristofer sabotages his movie by killing most of the suspense and robbing it of logic.
08/03/01
A dull, languid film full of unsurprising plot twists and ludicrous soap opera-style melodrama.
08/03/01
One the most laugh-out-loud funny movies I've seen all year. However, it's not being billed as a comedy.
08/03/01
Cristofer has flashes of brilliance here, but there is simply too much trash weighing this film down.
08/03/01
While you have to pity Banderas and Jolie, you also have to credit them for keeping a straight face through this nonsense.
08/03/01
Not a performance that doesn't smack of contrivance, not a situation that somehow doesn't seem artificial.
08/03/01
Latest News for Original Sin
May 22, 2001:
Based upon: The novel, Waltz into Darkness, by Cornell Woolrich, an author and screenwriter responsible for many film noir classics like Rear Window and Phantom Lady. 
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May 22, 2001:
The Banderas - Jolie matchup was hot enough to spark rumors (much denied) of an on set romance. Then again Cristofer's last flick was the opposite of hot Body Shots.
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