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If "Original Sin" were worse, it would be better.
Oh, the situation is unbelievable, the characters are laughable, and the dialogue is exploding all over the place like an overripe peach, but "Original Sin" isn't bad enough to be so-bad-it's-fun. Mostly, that's Angelina Jolie's fault, because her torrid, lip-dominated performing style makes her ideal for melodrama. She has never been more perfectly cast.
Jolie plays a stranger who shows up on Antonio Banderas' Cuban doorstep, announcing that she's the woman he's been corresponding with and has agreed to marry. Now, she looks nothing like the woman, she likes coffee (the mail-order bride hated it), and ...
Source: HighBeam Research, `Original Sin'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)