While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

At first it's a film for a multilingual and multicultural public. Then it's a film with several levels. Actors are simply fantastic. The idea of the three kingdoms of the World, Hell, Earth, Heaven, everyone with a specific language (English for Hell, Spanish for Earth, French for Heaven) and Latin for the Court, is very hilarious and suggestive. More: the idea of a snobbish, Forties, b/w Heaven, where the good angel Lola (Victoria Abril) is a star of the stage in the Paradise, a stylish theater/restaurant, singing AND DANCING (!!!) "Meditação" by Jobim (white dressed) and later "I wanna be evil" (black dressed), both in Rita Hayworth style, is only one of the thousands engaging details and quotes that fill the film. Also the opening is very hilarious: the good angel, Abril, and the bad demon, Cruz, masked while robbing the supermarket, are debating about the theological and philosophic reasons of Good and Evil. Rarely a film is so clever, surrealistic, funny, well played, well turned and balanced like this one. If you forgive me the analogy, it's like a drink with Cukor, Capra, Hitchcock, Fellini, De Palma, Risi, Brooks, Truffaut, Oury, shaken and served with a perfume of Almodóvar. Excellent.

If anyone has read Dante's "Inferno" this movie would be perfect. You got two angels; one from Heaven, and one from Hell. One is confident and competent. The other is cocky, immature and defiant. And all the other agents from that dimension can't look up to her. The goal: save a boxer. He has head trauma, and if he ever boxes again, he's a goner. One acts of as the wife, the other one acts out as the cousin. The boxer isn't too much of a righteous one. He's brutal, boozing and always causing trouble. When the angels from Heaven and Hell got into a pinch, they get desperate. So they ended up robbing the supermarket, which was doing some criminal activity itself; they were making counterfeit money! Penelope Cruz and Victoria Abril did a great job on this movie. It contain everything: drama, comedy, music, and a sense of moral which makes it very interesting. I liked it! 4 out of 5 stars!

Two agents, one from heaven and the other from hell--each tries to coax a loser of a boxer into their respective domains. Later, a conspiracy brings them together to save the boxer's soul. All for what? Cleopatra's nose. An inch longer, and it would have changed the course of history. Negligible, but consequential. Of course.Very strange, but likable movie. Much of it doesn't make sense. And the movie doesn't really explain anything. But it's not supposed to make sense.Don't ask why. Heaven is a black and white version of Paris. Both heaven and hell are ran like corporations, with directors, officers, and agents. The language of heaven is French. Language of hell is English. Spanish is the common language used in between the two. The director of hell has a swiss passport. Random. Violence. Humor. B/W. Color. French. English. Man. Woman. Good. Evil. A cocktail. Too much random ingredients makes it impossible to get intoxicated off of, but it's enough to get me buzzed.Purhaps the randomness alludes to...nothing is predetermined, but our decisions are influenced. Nothing is really clear cut, and things happen for no reason. It's a mess. But such is this world. This mess, on a macroscopic level, forms a harmonic balance of life and death, and good and evil.An interesting relationship develops between the characters of two leads, Cruz and Abril. An affinity for one another, based on a unique pretense--very interesting. Fun to see Penelope Cruz in an interesting role--she provides a good interpretation of the character she plays.The movie flows like a playful thumping of the piano keyboards by an infant--random and cacophonic, but endearing.

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.