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Beautifully shot movie
Original Sin is a pretty good movie with a good cast that is worth a watch. Luis Vargas, a rich plantation owner in Cuba, has sent away for a mail-order bride from America. When she arrives, he instantly falls in love with her. At first, their relationship seems to be going along fine, but things begin to change. His wife, Julia, runs away with all his money after he added her name to his account. The rest of the movie follows Luis as he tries to find her again as he chases her across Cuba. This movie isn't as bad as some people made it out to be although it isn't a great movie. It is beautifully shot with plenty of fantastic settings and lush colors. There is a couple graphic sex scenes with plenty of nudity so be forewarned. This is an enjoyable movie that is at least worth a watch.

Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie are very good as the recently married couple, Luis Vargas and Julia Russell. Their relationship is very believable as Luis falls madly in love with his new bride. Thomas Jane is very good in a creepy role as Detective Walter Downs who is investigating something about Julia's past. The Unrated Edition DVD offers widescreen presentation, director's commentary, a Gloria Estefan music video, an animated photo gallery, and two theatrical trailers. For an entertaining movie with plenty of twists and turns with some nudity along the way, check out Original Sin.

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I Like them both...
I haven't seen it(yet) but I like them both, but I heard that Antonio has a few"eye popping moments" How much does he show exactly? Like everything? Or what? Just so I am not surprised when I do see it.. How much?

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Mildly entertaining chick flick
WARNING: SOME VERY MILD SPOILERS*****

The first time I saw this, I was prepared to laugh at a sleazy, direct-to-video Harlequin novel-on-celluloid. What is it about Antonio Banderas? He's very handsome and not a bad actor, but he seems to choose a lot of really cheesy projects, "Femme Fatale" being a particularly awful one I recall watching.

But I thought this was a decently entertaining, if not brilliantly deep film. I was unaware at that time of it's provenance -- it's based on an excellent novel by Cornell Woolrich called "Waltz into Darkness". The book is well worth reading if you like this film. It was also made into a film in the mid-sixties by Francois Truffaut called (inexplicably ) "Mississippi Mermaid". Strange title, because the original novel is set in 1870s New Orleans and Julia travels to meet Louis on a steamer down the Mississipp BUT in the Truffaut film he reset the story in the 60s and the action of the film in colonial Africa and the French Riviera!

"Original Sin" is, interesting, vastly closer to the novel than the Truffaut version. The setting is changed to Cuba, presumably to accodomodate Bandera's accent, but the period is correct and the story doesn't work well in modern times, so overall, I find "Original Sin" to be the better of the two movies -- and that's saying a lot, as Truffaut is revered as a brilliant director. ("Mississippi Mermaid" is NOT by any means one of his better efforts, however.)

An early cautionary tale of "personals ads" and blind dating, the story seems even more relevant today than when it was written. Luis (Banderas) writes to a mail order bride, who is supposed to be plain, shy and religious. He is surprised when stunningly beautiful and sexy Julia (Angelina Jolie, of the collagen injected lips) shows up. Even though she betrays him and cheats on him and steals all his money...he still loves her. Both film versions clean up the ending -- I won't give the film ending away -- but in the book, Julia/Bonny actually kills Louis/Luis. A very bleak ending. Don't worry, the movie is a lot more fun.

The kind of film that falls under the heading of "guilty pleasure", "Original Sin" has lots of great costumes and sets and Banderas and Jolie are two of the sexiest people imaginable and we get to watch them getting hot and heavy. (BTW: the "unrated version" isn't really all that dirty...I don't get the rating thing. The sex isn't graphic or bizarre in any way -- it's two people who are MARRIED and making love. In the age of "Sex in the City", what the heck is the big deal?)

Anyways, call over your best girlfriends, microwave some popcorn and have a good time....