The color-coded cinematography is nice but the jokes are obvious and the dialogue drags whenever metaphysics gets brought up.
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New York PostLou Lumenick
New York PostLou Lumenick
What starts as a fairly lighthearted satire ends in a tiresome, ultra-violent shootout -- and the film pretty much throws away the possibilities of Cruz's gender-bending role.
38
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
If the filmmakers wanted to talk so much, they should have just gotten together for a long, anecdote-filled, wine-soaked Spanish dinner party and amused themselves.
This must all make sense to Yanes, somehow, but the film plays like a private joke with no punchline.
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Village Voice
Village Voice
Imagines Heaven and Hell as places so deeply mired in the business-as-usual hassles of earthly life that the battle between good and evil becomes a downright dull affair.
Bernal can't decide if he's making a Tarantino homage or an Almodovar riff or an Albert Brooks tribute...and the wobbly sensibility finally knocks the movie's legs out from beneath it altogether.