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To be, or not to be…ehhh, wait a minute, wrong movie. Do you Antonio Banderas take the big-breasted Angelina Jolie (also in Tomb Raider) to be your awfully (a bit of foreshadowing) wedded wife? You do? Then you may kiss the bride and the bride can now run away with your money, the end. The movie is Original Sin, and I will try to refrain from the use of puns in relation to the title, though this will be tough. Banderas plays Louis Durand, a Cuban coffee exporter, who is rather well off but has no wife, but one is set to arrive shortly from America (very different than his role in Spy Kids). Well Julia Russel (Jolie) arrives and the two are to be married immediately, since the two have already courted via mail. However Julia is much better looking than the photograph she originally mailed, but is able to explain this to Louis, but it is meant as foreshadowing to the audience. Eventually she is given access to his money, and then shortly leaves town with it (which you know is coming if you saw the trailer for the film). Of course an American detective comes looking for her since Julia’s sister is worried about her after correspondence with her sister ending some time after sailing for Cuba. You can pretty much guess that the real Julia has been knocked off and this detective is involved with the whole scheme. Anyway, Louis still loves Julia and still hopes to get her back, but of course the question is, where do her loyalties lie? I didn’t really care at this point, I just wanted the film to end. Michael Cristofer wrote and directed Original Sin based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich. So you could say the blame for the film lies with Cristofer. Other cast members are Joan Pringle, Thomas Jane, Allison Mackie, Jack Thompson, James Haven, and several others. I felt the acting was fine, the scenery good, and there are some good scenes with Jolie bearing those large breasts for the world to see. But this doesn’t make for much of a film. Now you add 20 more minutes of those breasts, and add 20 more minutes of other nudity, then cut about an hour of boring crap and you have yourself a film, albeit a soft porn film, but a film nonetheless. So for the rating, I give Original Sin two couches out of ten, one for each breast. Hip, hip hooray for me, no film title puns. Later.
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