Rated R, directed by Michael Cristofer, with: Antonio Banderas (Luis Antonio Vargas), Angelina Jolie (Julia Russell), Thomas Jane (Walter Downs), Jack Thompson (Alan Jordan), Allison Mackie (Augusta Jordan), Joan Pringle (Sara), running time: 110 minutes.
Anotonio Banderas is usually quite self-mocking about his arresting good looks, but in Original Sin everyone will laugh at Banderas and not with him. In this lurid exercise in gratuitous flesh shots, Banderas is a Cuban aristocrat who orders a bride through the mail from the US. Who turns up at his door other than sex-kitten Angelina Jolie, who, far from the docile housewife he had sought, takes him to the cleaners for all his wealth. The lies and deceit provide a backdrop, if not a storyline, for some debaucherous romps through Banderas' coffee plantation. Two beautiful people celebrating carnal lust on film -- doesn't sound very original at all.
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