Manolete (film)
2010
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Nov 30, 2001 · 35. Featured review. 7/10. Fun and bemusing Spanish comedy with a stellar duo and a large support cast. "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 .
- (5.7K)
- Crime, Drama
- Agustín Díaz Yanes
- 2001-11-30
The Spanish feature ''Don't Tempt Me'' brings together two of the reigning stars of the Iberian cinema, Victoria Abril and Penélope Cruz, for an unfocused, overplotted, painfully derivative...
Don't Tempt Me has an approval rating of 38% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 29 reviews, and an average rating of 5.1/10. The website's critical consensus states: "More Hellish than it is Heavenly, Agustín Díaz Yanes' black comedy about the Earthly duel between two angels doesn't have enough genuine laughs to support ...
Don't Tempt Me (February 15/04) For those who believe that there are no original ideas left, Don't Tempt Me sure does a fine job of contradicting that theory. The film follows agents of Hell and Heaven - played by Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril, respectively - as they attempt to secure the soul of a somewhat ordinary boxer (his presence on ...
Aug 22, 2003 · Don't Tempt Me - Metacritic. Summary Times have been tough for Heaven, with Hell winning the battle between good and evil. So when Heaven's managers have the opportunity to win the soul of a boxer and shift the balance of power, they send their best angel for the job, Lola Nevado (Abril).
- (12)
- Agustín Díaz Yanes
- R
"Don't Tempt Me" is a tale of two angels, a sweet woman from Heaven (Abril) and a dyke (Cruz) with a bad attitude from hell, who vie for the soul of a boxer. A lame comedy which goes no place and plays out like 90 minutes of purposeless busy work, this flick is a good example of well done bad ideas.
In Agustín Díaz Yanes’s masochistic Don’t Tempt Me (the original Spanish title, Sin Noticias de Dios, more accurately—and less coyly—translates as No News From God), an angel from heaven (Victoria Abril’s lounge singer Lola Nevado) and an angel from hell (Penélope Cruz’s sexy Carmen Ramos) have been sent to Earth to claim the ...
