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Original Sin (2001)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 91
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 80

Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.

Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 27

Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.

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A lonely man's search for companionship soon takes him to dangerous and unexpected places in this erotically charged drama. Luis Antonio Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a successful coffee salesman living in Cuba in the 1880s. Luis has had little luck finding love among the women of his native island, and he sends away to America for a mail-order bride. To his pleasant surprise, his fianc�e from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and

R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Michael Cristofer

Written By: Michael Cristofer

In Theaters: Aug 3, 2001 Wide

On DVD: Mar 26, 2002

Box Office:$15.1M

MGM/UA

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Cast

Antonio Banderas
Luis Antonio Vargas
Angelina Jolie
Julia Russell
Thomas Jane
Walter Downs
Jack Thompson
Alan Jordan
Gregory Itzin
Colonel Worth
Allison Mackie
Augusta Jordan
John Pringle
Sara
Cordelia Richards
Emily Russell
James Haven
Faust (Stage)
Pedro Armendariz Jr.
Jorge Cortés, Jorge Co...
Robert M. Martinez
Cuban Priest
Harry Porter
Stage Manager
Fernando Torre Lapham
Wedding Priest
Shaula Vega
Dressmaker Girl
Lisa Owen
Margareta (Stage)
Daniel Martinez XI
Rafael
Farnesio DeBernal
Bank Clerk
Nitzi Arellano
Prostitute
Roger Cudney
Ship's Captain
Adri�n Makala
Ship's Waiter
Francis Laboriel
Ship's Stewardess
Patricio Castilla
French Dining Steward
Derek Rojo
Bell Boy
Abraham Stavans
Mr. Gutiérrez, Mr. Gut...
Roberto Medina
Card Player
Julian Sedgwick
Card Player
Alejandro Corp
Card Player
Alejandro Reza
Train Station Man
Guy de Saint Cyr
Chief Jailer
Julio Bracho
Guard
George Belanger
Gentlemen in Morocco
Osami Kawano
Gentlemen in Morocco

Critic Reviews for Original Sin

All Critics (106) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (81) | DVD (20)

High on lust and low on logic, the preposterous Original Sin is an erotic thriller that evokes more laughs than sweat.

August 9, 2001 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Rex Reed

New York Observer

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The movie is all posture, clich�, and editing-room Spackle.

August 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

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A textbook case of a movie that would have been better had it been worse.

August 6, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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Cable fare masquerading as a theatrical feature because of its high-profile cast.

August 6, 2001 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

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Suggests unintentional self-parody from the get-go.

August 3, 2001 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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

August 3, 2001 Comment

Rita Kempley

Washington Post

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Though written and directed by a Pulitzer Prize winner, Original Sin is better known as the picture in which a naked Angelina Jolie (by then a certified Oscar winner) and Antonio Banderas do the horizontal mambo. [Blu-ray]

July 5, 2011 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews

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Peter Canavese

Groucho Reviews Source: Groucho Reviews

I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable this movie was.

June 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

Goatdog's Movies Source: Goatdog's Movies

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it has one of the most passionate dialogue of lovemaking: WHEN I'M WITH YOU, I'M SOMEONE ELSE...SOMEONE MORE LIKE MYSELF.

December 18, 2007

Veronique Kwak

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When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is,is a con artist who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she

December 16, 2008

♥Robyn M♥

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