Original Sin (2001) Critic Reviews
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The movie is not intended to be subtle. It is sweaty, candle-lit melodrama, joyously trashy, and its photography wallows in sumptuous decadence.Read the full review
Lavish and florid, the corny venture falls into so-bad-it's-good territory.Read the full review
Despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been.Read the full review
Aspires to blasphemy but achieves only banality.Read the full review
An erotic thriller with flaws.Read the full review
It's too labored and ponderous to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good amusement. Original Sin is merely an old-fashioned bore.Read the full review
Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.Read the full review
It's one bad apple.Read the full review
Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.Read the full review
Everything in this film is forgettable, right down to bongos pounding on the soundtrack to indicate a quickening of the pulse.Read the full review
