The movie is entertainingly bad.
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08/08/01
Original Sin (2001)
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Reviews Counted:90
Fresh:11
Rotten:79
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Laughably melodramatic, Original Sin features bad acting, bad dialogue, and bad plotting.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $15,113,699
Synopsis: Late nineteenth century Cuba. Dawn. At the docks, Luis (Antonio Banderas) waits for his American mail-order bride. But, his wait seems to be in vain. Then, magically, she appears--Julia (Angelina... [More]
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Jack Thompson, Thomas Jane
Director: Michael Cristofer
Reviews for Original Sin
Well, if you're going for a good story, I'd say save your cashola.
08/08/01
Top CriticThe movie is all posture, cliché, and editing-room Spackle.
08/07/01
Thomas Jane adds a layer of ambiguous spice.
08/06/01
This felt like a really bad TV movie of the week, with some nudity stuffed in from time to time, just to wake up the audience.
08/06/01
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08/06/01
One of the most torturous films of the summer, definitely front running to make my bottom ten of the year.
08/06/01
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08/06/01
If you can swallow some of the more overripe dialogue ... it's not nearly as mediocre a two hours as the trailers would have you think.
08/06/01
A textbook case of a movie that would have been better had it been worse.
08/06/01
An empty, overheated thriller straight out of bad '40s noir.
08/06/01
Cable fare masquerading as a theatrical feature because of its high-profile cast.
08/06/01
Neither convincingly passionate nor compellingly interesting, Original Sin turns out to be a big-name disappointment.
08/04/01
Delightfully trashy melodrama--you got a problem with that?
08/04/01
Features moments of sheer power and earnestness, and others that are so misdirected and ludicrously written, they have to be seen to be believed.
08/03/01
[Cristofer] presents it like one of those late-night HBO softcore flicks that tries to be 'artistic' and fails miserably.
08/03/01
Suggests unintentional self-parody from the get-go.
08/03/01
Top CriticAficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.
08/03/01
Top CriticOriginal Sin is really about murky storytelling, bad dialogue and arty close-ups of Jolie's formidable lips.
08/03/01
It's difficult to pinpoint what the film's first cinematic transgression might have been, but it ends up with so may of them that few, if any viewers will love or be blind-sided by what the film has to offer.
08/03/01
Latest News for Original Sin
May 22, 2001:
Based upon: The novel, Waltz into Darkness, by Cornell Woolrich, an author and screenwriter responsible for many film noir classics like Rear Window and Phantom Lady. 
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May 22, 2001:
The Banderas - Jolie matchup was hot enough to spark rumors (much denied) of an on set romance. Then again Cristofer's last flick was the opposite of hot Body Shots.
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