Lip Service to Love; 'Original Sin' Has Few Redeeming Qualities

From: The Washington Post | Date: August 3, 2001| Author: Rita Kempley | Copyright information

"Original Sin" exalts the lips that launched a thousand quips, the pulpy, puckered pair that belongs to Angelina Jolie. Whether slightly parted, pursed or pouting, those smoochable smackers can steal any scene.

Unfortunately, that's not saying a lot when it's a scene from this corny potboiler, which began life as "Waltz Into Darkness," a novel by Cornell Woolrich. It's hard to believe the writer's dark prose inspired classic thrillers like Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and Truffaut's "The...

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