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10/10/03
Don't Tempt Me (2003)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:11
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril are arch enemies in the Faustian tale DON'T TEMPT ME. Sent to Earth to determine the fate of boxer Manny (Demian Bichir), Lola (Abril) is an angel from Heaven, and... [More]
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Victoria Abril, Gael Garcia Bernal, Fanny Ardant
Director: Agustin Diaz Yanes
Reviews for Don't Tempt Me
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12/19/03
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05/11/05
Top Criticdeserves the tagline: 'Life might be hell, but this film is worse.'
08/21/03
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12/21/03
An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy.
08/21/03
Top CriticIt's a messy and shrill tale of Heaven and Hell.
07/19/03
The twisty Pulp Fiction-inspired subplot is also far less interesting than the undervalued gender crisis Cruz’s angel must negotiate throughout the film.
07/12/03
Manny is so uninteresting as a pivotal character that he's a black hole who sucks away our investment in the film.
09/04/03
A contrived, witless piece of work...a tune titled 'I Want To Be Bad'...could be the movie's theme song.
08/18/03
Likely to pass through American box offices sin noticias.
07/10/03
A sultry, pretty thing with a few good ideas: in other words, stuck in limbo.
08/27/03
As tempting as it is to describe the level of humor in Don't Tempt Me as hellish, that's probably giving the movie more credit than it deserves. Although describing anything in this dark comedy as heavenly is even more of a stretch.
12/12/03
This doesn't intend to be a mystery but it sure makes one out of why the investors didn't require a re-write.
09/07/03
The film lumbers along with a confused logic and becomes so entangled in its own numerous subplots that it trips over its own leaden feet.
08/21/03
Sometimes nothing is more irritating than forced wackiness. Especially forced wackiness with a supposed deeper point.
11/13/03
It's only sporadically entertaining.
08/21/03
Imagines Heaven and Hell as places so deeply mired in the business- as-usual hassles of earthly life that the battle between good and evil becomes a downright dull affair.
08/19/03
Bernal can't decide if he's making a Tarantino homage or an Almodóvar riff or an Albert Brooks tribute... and the wobbly sensibility finally knocks the movie's legs out from beneath it altogether.
09/04/03
A train wreck of half-developed ideas without a unifying thread.
12/12/03
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