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
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B- |
Bendito Infierno’s characters crack and pop off the screen; you’re caught up in their tussle even as you acknowledge its artificiality. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...undoubtedly a silly premise, but writer/director Agustin Diaz Yanes imbues the film with enough style and humor to keep things interesting. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A train wreck of half-developed ideas without a unifying thread. Full Review |
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C |
Sometimes nothing is more irritating than forced wackiness. Especially forced wackiness with a supposed deeper point. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A barely comprehensible mess ... Fun is something in very short supply in this would-be comedy. Full Review |
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It's all harmless fun, I suppose, and mercifully free of all the cant usually associated with fantasies of Heaven and Hell. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This doesn't intend to be a mystery but it sure makes one out of why the investors didn't require a re-write. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
Manny is so uninteresting as a pivotal character that he's a black hole who sucks away our investment in the film. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A sultry, pretty thing with a few good ideas: in other words, stuck in limbo. Full Review |
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Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It's only sporadically entertaining. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
An unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative comic fantasy. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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. Full Review |
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