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Herod's Law
Venevision International
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Damián Alcázar,
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,
Delia Casanova,
Juan Carlos Colombo,
Alex Cox,
Isela Vega,
and
Leticia Huijara
This dark comic fable is a satire of the inevitability of political corruption in 1940's Mexico.
| GENRE(S): |
Mystery
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Luis Estrada (also story)
Vicente Leñero
Jaime Sampietro (also story)
Fernando Javier León Rodríguez (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Luis Estrada
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 3, 2004
Video: February 3, 2004
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
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| RUNNING TIME: |
120 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Mexico |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Spanish (with English subtitles) |
Original titles "La Ley de Herodes"

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90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A bombshell in its home country, Herod's Law is made with the kind of flair that ensures a following everywhere politicians are venal and voters hope against hope for deliverance.

88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Incisive, highly entertaining political farce.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Smart, sassy and much more fun than most political diatribes.

80
Variety
Leonardo Garcia Tsao
Provocative, well-shot and vastly entertaining in its malice.

80
LA Weekly
John Patterson
A bracingly sarcastic political comedy -- it opens on a bound copy of Mexico's Constitution, stuffed with cash -- possessed of a baleful satiric eye for hypocrisy and greed, a delicious anti-clerical bent, and pitch-perfect comic timing.

75
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Estrada can be faulted for not fully developing these supporting characters, or for not weaving them seamlessly into his story. His eye all along is so clearly and surely on The Point that at times plot details and peripheral performances are washed over.

70
Chicago Reader
Ted Shen
Estrada references Welles throughout with his low-angle deep-focus shots, grotesque close-ups, and brassy sound track. The actors are uniformly excellent, embracing their arch roles without succumbing to caricature.

50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is bold and passionate, but not subtle, and that is its downfall.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
Suffers from its enthusiasm, so fueled by anger and emotion that storytelling grows clouded. Irreverence gives way to polemic, then to an orgy of violence.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The angrier the film gets, the less funny it becomes, squelched by heavy-handed polemics, a maddeningly repetitive musical score, and a running time that drags its overriding joke into the ground.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
Its too didactic to be a spaghetti Western but lacks the moral compass required of a more evolved philosophical statement.


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