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Review: Original Sin
Starring: Antonio Banderas,
Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson, Gregory Itzin, Allison Mackie,
Joan Pringle, Cordelia Richards
Director: Michael Cristofe
Written by: Michael Cristofer |
This film is based on the novel " "Waltz Into
Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich. The film is one of those |
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deliriously trashy stories involving sex, betrayal, murder,
and contains individuals caught in their own respective webs of corruption.
Luis Vargas (Antonio Banderas) is a handsome and seemingly mild-mannered Cuban
businessman. The pragmatic entrepreneur has everything ... except a wife. His mercantile
mentality stretches into his personal life, as he figures the best way to marry without
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complication of love would be to obtain an American
mail-order bride. As the story opens, he is headed to meet the woman who he feels will
make his life complete. Her name is Julia Russell (Angelina Jolie) and |
her face doesn't match the picture sent to Luis. She offers
an acceptable reason, and his initial suspicions are dropped.
She and Louis are married, and, at first, they seem deliriously happy. He is so smitten
that he allows her access to all of his considerable financial resources. But the
"honeymoon" ends when Julia vanishes in possession of her husband's money. Louis
sets off in pursuit, although whether to kill her or to win her back, not even he can say.
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"Original Sin" is an exceptional film, and Banderas, Jolie, and Jane are
perfectly cast. The location settings are gorgeous. The film is certainly no love story,
as it is completely devoid of romance or chemistry |
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between its two leads. But it is ABOUT love -- specifically,
about the lengths to which people might go when they are madly in love. |
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