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Don't Tempt Me

Don't Tempt Me (2001)

November. 30,2001
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6.4
| Comedy

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

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Senteur
2001/11/30

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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BelSports
2001/12/01

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Verity Robins
2001/12/02

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Dana
2001/12/03

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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ma-cortes
2001/12/04

"Don't Tempt Me" is a very pleasant action comedy plenty of humor , surrealist dialogs , emotion , spectacular scenes and mayhem . Heaven and hell send their best agents to Earth , and they're wearing heels . Two angels are on Earth , one named Lola (Victoria Abril) from the heaven and one named Carmen (Penelope Cruz) from the hell, come to save a boxer named Many (Damian Bichir) who finds his soul to be the object of a metaphysical fight. This exciting film results to be a surrealist comedy/action/drama/thriller and displays an all Spanish star-cast. The singer played by Victoria Abril and the former mobster performed by Penelope Cruz star this dark story of redemption about heaven and hell ; both of whom have a violent confrontation to accomplish their objectives . Rightly enjoyable and fun-filled , milestone comedy which neatly combines humor , mirth , entertaining situations and amusement . The funny screenplay manages a lot of laughs from the audience and twisted elements that you never loose your attention from the film . The only flaw I can find is that some of the story lines are overwhelmingly absurd and some character arcs end up being implausible . Some situations are laugh out loud ridiculous and the story proceeds at a breakneck speed that never falls flat .Pay attention as one couple of younger actors very well played by Victoria Abril and Penelope Cruz alternate with the other pair of older players perfectly performed by Fanny Ardant and Emilio Gutierrez Caba . I liked everyone in the excellent cast, and the male and female actors , they were all very attractive . Flawless and fantastic story full of twists and turns with a duo of sensational protagonists , including an unforgettable Penelope Cruz , she parades and dances sexily at her best and more relaxed and enticing than ever . The hit of the show is undoubtedly for the fetching Penelope who gives one of the best screen acting . The support cast is top-notch as Elsa Pataky , Luis Tosar , Gael Garcia Bernal , Gemma Jones , Cristina Marcos , Elena Anaya , Bruno Bichir , Juan Echanove and many others . And cameos by Javier Bardem in the closing credits, as we learn that Penélope Cruz was changed back into a man in the afterlife , then we see the man's photo , it is Javier Bardem ; furthermore , the photo Victoria Abril puts into the album shows the mother of Manny , the woman in this photo is the actress Pilar Bardem . Atmospheric and appropriate musical score by the recently deceased Bernardo Bonezzi . Colorful and adequate cinematography by Paco Femenia . Agustin Diaz Yanes' return to top form , with an intelligent and engaging script which uses amusing situations to give us a good movie in fast pace , entertaining events , plot twists and that kept me entertained for the almost two hours of duration . Diaz Yanes is a fine craftsman , thanks to his reputation as screenwriter and the support of Victoria Abril he was able to set up his first film as director: "Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead " that became the greatest hit of Spanish cinema at its release in 1995 and the Festival San Sebastian , including best actress to Victoria Abril . Yanes subsequently directed the successful ¨Alatriste¨ and ¨Solo Quiero Caminar¨ that failed at Spanish box office .

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Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW)
2001/12/05

If anyone has read Dante's "Inferno" this movie would be perfect. You got two angels; one from Heaven, and one from Hell. One is confident and competent. The other is cocky, immature and defiant. And all the other agents from that dimension can't look up to her. The goal: save a boxer. He has head trauma, and if he ever boxes again, he's a goner. One acts of as the wife, the other one acts out as the cousin. The boxer isn't too much of a righteous one. He's brutal, boozing and always causing trouble. When the angels from Heaven and Hell got into a pinch, they get desperate. So they ended up robbing the supermarket, which was doing some criminal activity itself; they were making counterfeit money! Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril did a great job on this movie. It contain everything: drama, comedy, music, and a sense of moral which makes it very interesting. I liked it! 4 out of 5 stars!

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araik90
2001/12/06

Hi I need your help. I'm from Italian i saw this film a lot of years ago and i'm fall in love for it. Unfortunately i can't explain well what this film means for me 'cause i can't speak English.. anyway. i need your help 'cause i'm trying to find the first song at start of film...when be in the tunnel with the lights in movement. i hope that you understand what i've write... and i hope in your help. so... i think that,,, this film is really good. When I saw Penelope Cruz to impersonate an emissary of the devil already I had understood that I could not lose this film!Then,after i've seen her sexual tendencies.. she is a man in a body of woman.. and that woman!!! It remains an interesting story, that goes outside from every diagram, distant from the clichè of the classic struggle between well and badly: happens in fact that an angel and the devil (represented from one soft and sweet singing and a bad boy/girl) live against and together with the same time: is a story dated some I annex first, a little bit above all the desire to maintain the balance. A good film to see..also for look in funny way what happens up there..

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mackey3000
2001/12/07

Augustin Diaz Yates heaven-vs.-earth satire DON'T TEMPT ME is really NOTHING that hasn't been done before, and in better films. An angel from heaven (Victoria Abril) and an angel from hell (some Spanish chick named Penélope Cruz...lol!} fight over the soul of a brutish boxer (Demiån Bichir). The way the plot develops is predictable, as is the ending. But there are laughs around the way, most of them provided by Cruz. I can't begin to comprehend why she's such a dull, tedious, unconvincing actress in American films when she's proved to be such a vibrant, energetic and entertaining actress in Spanish films. And while she's made better films (BELLE EPOQUE, JAMON JAMON, LIVE FLESH, ABRE LOS OJOS and even the American ABRE remake VANILLA SKY), I think this is definitely her best performance yet. Her character is the most interesting and entertaining figure during the entire duration of the film, and one of the reasons she gets the biggest laughs is because the screenwriter gave her most of the best lines. The ridiculously talented and versatile Gael Garcia Bernal is a total hoot as a top CEO in hell who's a mix of Spike from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and Tony Shalhoub's eccentric shyster in THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE. He's so much fun that the movie is hurt because he's a supporting character who only appears in a few scenes, and so many of the lead characters are so one-note and tiring we keep waiting for him to show up more to liven things up. Anyways, this isn't a very good film, certainly one you may not remember for a long, but the good aspects in it kept me entertained...most of the time. B-

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