| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The only sin committed here is the cardinal one of boring us to tears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 24, 2001

High on lust and low on logic, the preposterous Original Sin is an erotic thriller that evokes more laughs than sweat.

| Aug 9, 2001

The movie is all posture, clich, and editing-room Spackle.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2001

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2001

A textbook case of a movie that would have been better had it been worse.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 6, 2001

Suggests unintentional self-parody from the get-go.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 3, 2001

Aficionados of movies in the so-bad-they're-good category might just revel in this overheated costume melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 3, 2001

Original Sin is really about murky storytelling, bad dialogue and arty close-ups of Jolie's formidable lips.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

Neither epochal nor epic in its ludicrousness. It's just run-of-the-mill trash.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2001

The kind of movie that keeps you on your toes waiting for the next deadly serious absurdity.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 3, 2001

Cristofer's approach is relentlessly serious and dead-on, devoid of humor, wit or personality.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 3, 2001

It is never moving or shocking. It needs to be both.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

It's your basic, steamy black widow tale with one of the most implausible set-ups in memory.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2001

A plateful of steamed corn.

| Aug 3, 2001

Loses its nerve and instead of maintaining its theme of obsession, it starts piling up absurd complications.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 3, 2001

Original Sin, 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.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

Cristofer sabotages his movie by killing most of the suspense and robbing it of logic.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

The combination of a smoldering Banderas and a simmering Jolie generates as much heat as a 40-watt bulb.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2001

It's an exuberant example of what it is -- a bodice-ripping murder 'meller' -- and at that it gets a passing grade.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2001