Product Details

• Actors: Victoria Abril, Penelope Cruz
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: February 20, 2007
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KB489S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,084 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Heaven has sent its best (Victoria Abril) and the devil his worst (Penélope Cruz), two rival agents battling for ultimate supremacy decided by whoever can secure the soul of Manny (Demián Bichir), a punch-drunk boxer on earth. These sexy angels pull no punches using their brains, wit and sex appeal to accomplish their missions. Defeating the temptations of the devil will be no easy task, as his recruits are led by the mastermind Jack Davenport (Gael García Bernal). Damnation has never been this seductive and seduction never more heavenly!

SPANISH SYNOPSIS: El cielo envía a la tierra a su mejor agente (Victoria Abril) y el infierno a su peor (Penélope Cruz), para luchar por la supremacía final. Quien obtenga el alma de Manny (Demián Bichir), un boxeador que ha recibido demasiados puñetazos, será quien venza. Estas son sensuales serafines que usan el cerebro, el ingenio y, por supuesto, el atractivo sexual para cumplir con su misión. No será fácil sobreponerse a las tentaciones del demonio, pues sus huestes las dirige Jack Davenport (Gael García Bernal). ¡La condenación nunca ha sido tan seductora ni la seducción tan divina!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful comedy, October 5, 2008

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Dr. Robert H. Getscher (OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Benditio Infierno (DVD)

This movie was an absolute delight. The dialogue between the angels and demons is witty and insightful. All the actors fit, and interact with punch, physically and emotionally -- girls with boxing gloves, yes! The sets and camera work are inspired fun, from tight views in a grocery store to expansive views of a heavenly night club, sexy torch singer and all. Even the movement from Spanish to English and back pushes the universality of the theme. What a wickedly comic view of good (and evil). I can't wait to share this visionary film. If you find it hard to follow, speed up your thinking, man.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, February 18, 2008

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Cheryl A. Kitchen "cheryl" (Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Benditio Infierno (DVD)

I love this movie. I've watched it many times. It's complicated. It's probably not until the near end that the viewer figures out what the heck is going on, but it's an eye twitcher. I have watched it multiple times. For me, this is what lets me know it's a good movie. I don't like simple, predictable plots. I like to be challenged to think and this movie challenged me. That's not to mean it's "sketchy". I think it means that the characters have deminsion to them and are complicated. Equally complicated is how they interconnect with each other.

Victoria Abril, Penelope Cruz and Gael Garcia Bernal are excellent.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Movie You Can Watch Over and Over, March 3, 2010

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socrates17 "socrates17" (New Jersey/Tanelorn 2008/9) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Benditio Infierno (DVD)

I have to confess that when this was first released on DVD in 2001 as Don't Tempt Me (a worse title than Bendito Infiermo, which in turn is not as good at the original Spanish title of Sin Noticias De Dios, Without News From God) I wrote a 5 star review for it. Having watched it multiple times in the intervening years and having just finished watching it again I have no ethical problem reviewing it again for the more recent edition. (In fact, when I popped it in the old multi-region player - I had gotten the DVD from Spain before the first US edition came out - I hadn't even known there was a still more recent DVD edition out here.)

This is a pretty dark dark comedy and a few scenes are quite serious. It's sexy, with great cinematography and wonderful acting. Victoria Abril is radiant. Penelope Cruz is particularly outstanding, especially if, for your first viewing, you haven't read the spoilers which abound in the reviews for this newer edition.

You can easily just watch it and enjoy it or engage with its ideas on good and evil. After all, it does have scenes set in heaven, hell, and Madrid; angels, demons, and humans; and heavenly and hellish bureaucrats but it isn't heavy-handed and doesn't in any way force you you work.

One of my favorite movies from the last decade.