Original Sin (2001)
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: 30
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 28
Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 52,373
Movie Info
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 fiancée from the United States, Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie), turns out to be not only beautiful but passionate and
Cast
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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... -
Robert M. Martinez
Cuban Priest -
Harry Porter
Stage Manager -
Fernando Torre Lapha...
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 -
Adrián Makala
Ship's Waiter -
Francis Laboriel
Ship's Stewardess -
Patricio Castilla
French Dining Stewar... -
Derek Rojo
Bell Boy -
Abraham Stavans
Mr. Gutiérrez, Mr. ... -
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
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All Critics (106) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (80) | DVD (20)
High on lust and low on logic, the preposterous Original Sin is an erotic thriller that evokes more laughs than sweat.
Top CriticThe movie is all posture, cliché, and editing-room Spackle.
A textbook case of a movie that would have been better had it been worse.
Cable fare masquerading as a theatrical feature because of its high-profile cast.
Suggests unintentional self-parody from the get-go.
Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
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]
I was pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable this movie was.
Um melodrama que tenta esconder sua vulgaridade atrás de uma aura de falso refinamento.
...the only sin committed was by the filmmakers producing the movie in the first place.
What we have here is simply an erotic thriller with so many melodramatic turns, it eventually becomes laughable.
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 ...
A ridiculous story about how far people will go to maintain possession of an especially phenomenal f**k.
The only sin committed here is the cardinal one of boring us to tears.
El candente verano nos trae en su cierre a Angelina Jolie y Antonio Banderas en una película con la promesa de una fuerte carga erótica ...
Recycled sin, more like it, but preposterously entertaining nonetheless.
Begs one major question: How the hell does writer-director Michael Cristofer keep getting work?
While itis sultry, steamy and shameless, it is not, unfortunately, really good.
While some scenes are splendidly produced, Banderas and Jolie lighting the screen with danger and amore; others fall flat.
A load of pretentious crap.
As they engage in open-mouth kissing, they smack loudly like a couple of preschoolers woofing down greasy hamburgers.
It quickly plunges us into darkness as far as sense and logic are concerned.
The movie is entertainingly bad.
Well, if you're going for a good story, I'd say save your cashola.
Audience Reviews for Original Sin
Super Reviewer
I wanted to like the flick as I like both of the main characters but it really wasn't for me.
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- Luis Antonio Vargas: And perhaps later on I will tell you the story of how we came to be here. It is an interesting tale. Some of it is even true. But for now, I can say that from the moment I saw her, I loved her. And no matter the price, you cannot walk away from love.
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