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Article: 'ORIGINAL SIN' IS SINFULLY INEPT.(LIVING)(Movie review)(Review)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2001
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Byline: David Germain The Associated Press
Someone's going to pay serious penance for ''Original Sin'' - most likely, those misguided souls who wander into theaters expecting a bit of entertainment.At least seven deadly sins of rotten filmmaking are at work in this thrill-less romantic thriller starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie: Grating melodramatics, bad dialogue, tiresome voice-overs, hack editing, overbearing music, cheesy camera work, unpleasant characters with incomprehensible motivation.
If it weren't for occasionally pretty sets and costumes and the odd moments when the charisma of Banderas and Ms. Jolie overcomes the flimsy material, ...