spoiler spoiler i be try to remember a bad movie that i have see . can not do it . maybe it will come to me before i finish this review . let see and how to begin represent a rich and handsome and outgoing cuban businessman ( banderas ) intentionally decide to screw up his life . why . blank out . no answer . the plan represent he decide that a bad marriage will be his downfall . okay and but how do one intentionally design a marriage to be so bad a to destroy oneself financially and emotionally and spiritually . major spoiler aheadsince the antihero be handsome and rich and and outgo he could easily marry one of any number of woman and most of whom would jump at the chance . many of these theoretical match might possibly work out . no and no . there get to be a bad way . i know represent the man must marry a complete stranger find via a newspaper ad place in a foreign country . that it . and to lessen the probability that she be compatible with the man and the woman must arrive in the man country no more than 3 hour before the wedding take place . the man and woman must know nothing about one another except the lie they have exchange with each other in establish contact via the mail . okay and now here the shocker . be you ready for this . hold on to your seat . despite these elaborate plan to undermine the marriage from the start and the marriage do not in fact work out and the man be destroy financially and emotionally and spiritually . what i have just relate be the precise opening premise this movie expect you swallow in order to grab your attention for the movie remainder . if it sound implausible to the point of imbecility and well and that be not my fault . to be fair and although this movie in no way deserve it and the woman he marry be a con artist ( jolie ) who have help kill the actual intend bride and assume her identity . but that absolutely doesn not matter and because it may just as well have be the con artist who answer the man marriage ad a any other woman . i really can not discuss this movie much far . the level of irritation original sin cause me make it out of the question . let me just say that the account i have relate so far be not the most implausible element in the movie . for example and let assume for the sake of argument that you be a psychopath . somebody tell you they love you a total of 999 time . but you be a psychopath and it have no effect . so you decide to poison the person who love you . hey and it what psychopaths do . somehow the person find out you have poison their drink and they tell you . right before the person drink the poison they tell you for the 1000th time that they love you . they knowingly begin to drink the poison . suddenly and the scale of psychopathology fall from your eye and you see everything in a different light . you spring to your foot with all the good hearted innocence that a recently cure criminally insane person can muster and try to knock the poisoned drink from their hand . here be the crucial question represent do you find this plausible . possible . psychologically realistic . if so and let me state in the strong possible term represent this movie be make for you . hey and i just have a revelation . i just remember a bad movie i saw represent ed wood love feast and aka pretty model all in a row . i know i could do it .