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I wanted to but couldn't!

best movie i've ever seen.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Needing a bit of comedy after the Danish film, Craig, I turn to the ever luscious Penelope Cruz who, along with Victoria Abril, are sure to delight.To say that Cruz is hot is putting it mildly, as she plays an inhabitant of Hell who is sent to Earth to grab the soul of a losing, debt-ridden, boxer (Demián Bichir). Heaven sends their own representative and the battle is on.Abril, who falls short of her most skintastic performance, nevertheless gives us a glimpse of her heavenly body as she plays the misogynistic boxer's wife. Cruz keeps it hot as she struts and dances, but does keep it on as the boxer's cousin. Why the bum doesn't stray is a big mystery.Gael García Bernal (The Crime of Father Amaro, Bad Education, babel) plays the administrator of Hell, who becomes concerned about a corporate takeover by the rich, who are working to convince everyone that they are not really bad, but victims of society. Sides become blurred as the need to continue the existence of good and evil, and Heaven and Hell become more important that who gets the soul.Fanny Ardant (8 Women, Paris, je t'aime), Elena Anaya (Van Helsing), and Gemma Jones (Bridget Jones Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), and Elsa Pataky (Snakes on a Plane, Romasanta) all add to the fun.

Heaven and hell are fighting over a soul once again, and of course they send their representatives over to Earth to try and make the soul go in the "right" direction. The soul in question is a has-been boxer Many, who for much of the movie is uninteresting and unappealing. The agents from Heaven and Hell happen to be women, and the two otherworldly planes and their agents have been modernized, using cell phones and operating like modern businesses. No, it is not at any point for, new or imaginative.There is only one interesting turn of the plot the movie, and it's more of a sidenote, not elaborated on in the least. The majority of the movie is spent on absolutely nothing. The angels never get a good fight going, there never seems to be any actual battle for the soul which is supposed to be ultimately important. No, I'm not referring to actual physical battles, rather to battles of wills. Instead, there is an absolutely needless and gratuitous bloodbath near the end of the movie.Add in a highly questionable note that women are of a lesser value than men, and you have Sin noticias de Dios: an absolutely uninspiring and boring movie without pretty much any content at all. Agustín Díaz Yanes as the director and writer is completely lost on what makes an interesting and appealing movie, and as a result of his ineptitude, the actors are fumbling on screen as well without any personality to show. There are absolutely no redeeming qualities in the film at all. If Hell existed, this movie would be going to the lowest levels.

As far as this reviewer is concerned Don't Tempt Me is a lot of confusing claptrap. Heaven and Hell in the persons of Cruz and Abrant (two lovely and fine actresses, wasted here) are fighting to gain the soul of a dying prizefighter (Demian Bichir). Just why he is such a tempting target never becomes clear. Several scenes shot in such places as a supermarket and a men's room (note the urinals), and they have a bit of humor when thought of as rooms in Hell. But at two hours particularly I felt the director was rubbing it in--or rather rubbing the viewers' faces in a mess of something. How did these good performers get involved? I should mention Gael Garcia Bernal as Davenport, just barely more than a walk-on role, but he manages to make something out of it, largely because of his own special talent, not that of the director.

Entertaining. Unique in style. It's a story about an angel from Heaven and a fallen angel from Hell who both compete over the soul of a boxer.Penelope's role in this film is more of a far cry than in her previous roles. Normally, she is cast as a beautiful object of desire, as in Vanilla Sky, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, All the Pretty Horses and Woman on Top. She has even been cast as a slightly less-than-attractive, but still desired woman, as in Blow and Gothika. For the first time, Penelope Cruz is actually shot in an almost undesirable way in this film - even letting herself get beat up a couple of times. She does pull it off, and the film succeeds as an off-kilter dark comedy with that Hollywood "Heaven vs. Hell" factor added in.It is worth it, if for nothing else, to see Penelope dance around her room "Travolta style" to the song "Kung-Fu Fighting".