Don't Tempt Me (a.k.a. No News from God) (2003)
Great opening credit sequence, after which the film goes to shit. The film's theological universe is set up so that the rules can change at any given moment and the plot is extremely haphazard and poorly thought out. But, as I've said before, none of this would matter had the film been funny... but it's not. It just kind of sits there. (It does have one good joke, and in the interest of sadism it saves it for the epilogue.) A good cast is left to flounder in the script's multilingual stew; not to be mean to Penelope Cruz or anything (who at least looks like she's enjoying herself), but isn't putting her in a film with Victoria Abril like asking Helen Mirren to go toe-to-toe with, oh, say, Katie Holmes?
Grade: C
Great opening credit sequence, after which the film goes to shit. The film's theological universe is set up so that the rules can change at any given moment and the plot is extremely haphazard and poorly thought out. But, as I've said before, none of this would matter had the film been funny... but it's not. It just kind of sits there. (It does have one good joke, and in the interest of sadism it saves it for the epilogue.) A good cast is left to flounder in the script's multilingual stew; not to be mean to Penelope Cruz or anything (who at least looks like she's enjoying herself), but isn't putting her in a film with Victoria Abril like asking Helen Mirren to go toe-to-toe with, oh, say, Katie Holmes?
Grade: C
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