La Mujer de Mi Hermano Reviews

Here's a 'steamy' soap opera that's never very steamy, and if you set your expectations low, this movie is only too happy to meet them.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

It's a gorgeously mounted soap, with enough third-act surprises to justify its reputation (it was a huge hit in Latin America).

Full Review | Comment (1) | Original Score: 3/5

With one-dimensional characters stuck in a plot that gives them nothing noteworthy to do, only the most superficial aspects remain to be admired: the attractive cast, their attractive clothes and the attractive houses in which they live.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C-

Soapy, sappy, silly and sluggish, La Mujer de Mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) is one of those issue movies that wants to cram every hot topic it can think of into a melodramatic situation.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: D

Debut director Ricardo de Montreuil only cares about filming pretty people in the most hackneyed positions imaginable.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

A stylish soap opera that casts cultural dramas as melodrama.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

Brisk, shallow, highly condensed version of a telenovela.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/4

The movie knows exactly what it's doing, and does exactly what it intends, without making one false move.

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Stars actors from all over South America and was shot in Chile by a Peruvian director, yet what it most closely resembles is a Mexican soap opera.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: D+

if a movie ever needed a gratuitous shot of a breast or a bare a** it's La Mujer de Mi Hermano

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

90 minutes of wheezing emotional flare-ups, played with such straight-faced sobriety that I wanted to slap these people and tell them all to lighten up

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/5

You could dismiss this swankily shot Latin American trifle as an upscale soap opera, but that would be an insult to soap operas.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: C

There's also a tiresome, warmed-over feel to all the revelations -- one of which, a whopper, is never really resolved -- and the flat dialogue and one-dimensional characters make it impossible to care.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1.5/4

Repressed desire! A sultry soap-opera star! Incest! Gay politics! La Mujer de Mi Hermano has it all. Now if it only had a decent plot.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/4

You've seen hotter stuff on Oxygen.

Comment | Original Score: 1/4

The secrets behind the brothers' long estrangement are revealed in hallowed soap opera tradition, and the improbable ending to the film almost demands further installments.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2/4

La Mujer de Mi Hermano neither looks nor feels like the Mexican telenovela that it fundamentally is. That makes the movie interesting. More interesting than the sudsy story it tells, anyway.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/4

The film is the cinematic equivalent of a plush bathrobe, wrapped around a story of love and betrayal among the rich, furtive and back-waxed.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 2.5/4

The movie is astonishingly simple-minded, depicting characters who obediently perform their assigned roles as adulterers, cuckolds, etc.

Full Review | Comment | Original Score: 1/4

Plays like a season worth of telenovela episodes.

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