Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM) | Release Date: August 3, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
13
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Jolie and Banderas are two hot actors, in many senses of the word, and their scenes together have a lewd excitement.
50
Despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been.
25
Even the lovemaking scenes between two of Hollywood's most attractive stars -- often shot from above, like Cinemax soft porn -- are so unerotic, they make your skin crawl.
20
An early scene inside a theater seems intended to wink at Sin's critics: "Disgusting! Cheap melodrama," a lady sniffs during intermission. It's a neatly reflexive acknowledgement of what we ourselves are watching, but even at that, our filmmaker is praising himself too extravagantly by half.