An amusing and occasionally over-the-top satire.
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03/10/03
Don't Tempt Me (2003)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:11
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.1/10
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
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
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
una muestra significativa del cine español
12/28/01
The story takes a while to get going, but once it does, it includes a few Pulp Fiction-style flourishes and becomes a devil of a good time.
08/21/03
Likely to pass through American box offices sin noticias.
07/10/03
It's not quite The Divine Comedy, but it's almost as irreverent, insightful and thought provoking.
08/21/03
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
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
It's a messy and shrill tale of Heaven and Hell.
07/19/03
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12/21/03
While Yanes isn't quite able to sustain the quirky tone, his international cast does a fine job of keeping the energy aloft.
11/12/02
A barely comprehensible mess ... Fun is something in very short supply in this would-be comedy.
11/03/03
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05/11/05
Top CriticA sultry, pretty thing with a few good ideas: in other words, stuck in limbo.
08/27/03
It's all harmless fun, I suppose, and mercifully free of all the cant usually associated with fantasies of Heaven and Hell.
09/26/03
It's only sporadically entertaining.
08/21/03
An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy.
08/21/03
Top CriticConsistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired.
08/22/03
Bendito Infierno’s characters crack and pop off the screen; you’re caught up in their tussle even as you acknowledge its artificiality.
02/04/05
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