Original Sin: Critic Reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

34

A textbook case of a movie that would have been better had it been worse.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

10

Suggests unintentional self-parody from the get-go.
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Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)

30

Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
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Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

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.
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Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

The movie is all posture, cliche, and editing-room Spackle.
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

It is never moving or shocking. It needs to be both.
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Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

It's your basic, steamy black widow tale with one of the most implausible set-ups in memory.
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Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

High on lust and low on logic, the preposterous Original Sin is an erotic thriller that evokes more laughs than sweat.
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Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)

0

The kind of movie that keeps you on your toes waiting for the next deadly serious absurdity.
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Peter Howell Toronto Star (Top Critic)

Cristofer sabotages his movie by killing most of the suspense and robbing it of logic.
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Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Loses its nerve and instead of maintaining its theme of obsession, it starts piling up absurd complications.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

Cable fare masquerading as a theatrical feature because of its high-profile cast.
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Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

30

Cristofer's approach is relentlessly serious and dead-on, devoid of humor, wit or personality.
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr. Goatdog's Movies

60

I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable this movie was.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

40

Um melodrama que tenta esconder sua vulgaridade atras de uma aura de falso refinamento.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

30

...the only sin committed was by the filmmakers producing the movie in the first place.
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Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies

50

What we have here is simply an erotic thriller with so many melodramatic turns, it eventually becomes laughable.
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Ted Murphy Baseline.Hollywood.com

50

Cristofer takes liberties with the novel's downbeat ending and tacks on a happily ever after coda that seems more in keeping with something made under the studio system ...
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Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

38

A ridiculous story about how far people will go to maintain possession of an especially phenomenal f**k.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Neil Smith BBC

40

The only sin committed here is the cardinal one of boring us to tears.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Alex Ramirez Cinenganos

El candente verano nos trae en su cierre a Angelina Jolie y Antonio Banderas en una pelicula con la promesa de una fuerte carga erotica ...
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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

50

Recycled sin, more like it, but preposterously entertaining nonetheless.
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David Noh Film Journal International

Begs one major question: How the hell does writer-director Michael Cristofer keep getting work?
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Eugene Novikov Film Blather

42

While itis sultry, steamy and shameless, it is not, unfortunately, really good.
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Ross Anthony Hollywood Report Card

50

While some scenes are splendidly produced, Banderas and Jolie lighting the screen with danger and amore; others fall flat.
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