If there’s one thing any decent erotic thriller seeks to accomplish, it’s onscreen amorousness. There’s no point selling an entire movie on the back of beautiful people doing salacious things to each other if you can’t hold up that end of the bargain, but 2001’s Original Sin did it perhaps a little too well.
Even though the period piece was savaged by critics to the tune of a paltry 12 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, the lovemaking proved to be so convincing that it created rumor, speculation, innuendo, hearsay. Obviously, that’s par for the course when you’ve got the smoldering duo of Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie in the lead roles, but controversy nonetheless lingered in the background.