Don't Tempt Me |  | Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
Actors: Victoria Abril, Penélope Cruz, Demián Bichir, Fanny Ardant, Juan Echanove
Studio: First Look Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 16176
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FLPD98609D
UPC: 687797986092
EAN: 0687797986092
ASIN: B0000ZG0NQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: February 17, 2004
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 Penelope rules February 5, 2010
J. DeJesus
I consider Penelope Cruz a great actress[and a sexy espanola].Check out this film and see one of Penelope's coolest characters yet!
Also,enjoy the work of many other great talents.Some,unknown, to the american public.
Enjoy!
What Tips The Balance? November 2, 2009
SORE EYES
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Heaven and hell are battling over gaining the one soul that will finally tip the balance of humanity in their favor. Each side sends agents to earth (Victoria Abril and Penelope Cruz) to persuade an aging boxer (Demian Bichir) to small acts of kindness.
Though this plot has been done to death in Hollywood, Don't Tempt Me is anything but hackneyed. It's funny, the characters are developed, and the ideas about good and evil are original-even blasphemous. By the end of the film, no one is free from sin or virtue. Angels contemplate crimes for an ultimate good. Hell's minions cross the line to keep the balance in the universe. God is curiously absent from the mix. Humans and angels seek justice through earthly channels-souls are argued for by horse wigged barristers in courts, the virtuous are sexually seduced and even loved by the devil's henchmen, and problems are solved with guns.
Writer/director Augustin Diaz Yanes' script has some nice touches. Hell's director is the author of The Catcher in the Rye. Paris is heaven. And the head of the International Monetary Fund is hell's bean cruncher.
I'm a big Penelope Cruz fan and wouldn't miss one of her pictures, but Don't Tempt Me has merit independent of Cruz. Recommended.
 Don't tempt me August 11, 2008
Isela P. Megason
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was very entertaining, and the actresses were simply amazing. I was able to enjoy every single minute of it.
Something very different July 9, 2008
J. Dykstra (Roswell, NM)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This whole film is a bit quirky. The premise of a contest between heaven and hell is a bit outlandish. The languages spoken in each place are interesting, and some of the characters are unique. Gael Garcia Bernal gives an outrageous and likable performance as the leader of hell, and Penelope Cruz is very unique as what turns out to be a guy in a female body. Trying to make sense out of what the movie is supposed to mean might make your head spin, but if you don't think too hard, it can be entertaining.
In Heaven they speak French, in Hell, English. January 5, 2008
Genevieve Hayes (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are problems in the afterlife. Heaven is on the verge of bankruptcy, while Hell is suffering from overcrowding and its CEO (Hell is run like a business) is about to be overthrown. The only thing that can stop either of these events is the acquisition of a certain soul, that of a Spanish boxer. Enter Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril. Abril plays the agent of Heaven, who must pose as the boxer's estranged wife, while Cruz plays the agent of Hell, who is posing as the boxer's long-lost cousin and who isn't quite what she appears.
This film is very good fun. It's fun to see the writer and director's vision of the afterlife (Heaven is Paris and Hell is a prison), and the ending had me giggling for the next two days. It is also fun to see Gael Garcia Bernal as Jack Davenport, the charismatic CEO of Hell (who happens to hold a Swiss passport while on Earth). It's not a perfect film, but you're also not going to waste your money if you buy it.
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