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Herod's Law
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 11 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Mystery
Written by:
Luis Estrada (also story)
Vicente Leñero
Jaime Sampietro (also story)
Fernando Javier León Rodríguez (story)
Directed by: Luis Estrada
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 13, 2003
DVD: February 3, 2004
Running Time: 120 minutes, Color
Origin: Mexico
Language(s): Spanish (with English subtitles)
Summary
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.
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf
Smart, sassy and much more fun than most political diatribes.
Read Full Review >Variety Leonardo Garcia Tsao
Provocative, well-shot and vastly entertaining in its malice.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The film is bold and passionate, but not subtle, and that is its downfall.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
Its too didactic to be a spaghetti Western but lacks the moral compass required of a more evolved philosophical statement.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 10.0 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
greg h. gave it a10:
Very interesting movie, i enjoyed it all the way thru. It was an eye opener as far as whats going in the world. it is a must see.
Uncle Scoopy gave it a10:
Tremendous film.
[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Great movie funny, intelligent, and very well done.
