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02/09/06
La Ley De Herodes (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 24 Fresh: 16 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Synopsis: Artistically photographed in a characteristic sepia tone, "Herod's Law" is a controversial and delirious comic fable told in a deliciously sarcastic tone. The story is set in 1949 in the authentically designed village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, a small town of 100 habitants, where... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendariz, Delia Casanova
Director: Luis Estrada
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10/30/03
Half Preston Sturges and half Sam Peckinpah...though it sometimes takes its swipes with a bludgeon rather than a scalpel, it hits more often than it misses.
10/05/03
To connect with the story, you have to care about the victims or the character who falls from grace and unfortunately, you don't give a hot tamale about either.
10/03/03
Herod's Law is beautifully photographed, its imagery glazed with a sepia patina that suggests dust and neglect.
10/02/03
Alczar, who won the Mexican Oscar for his performance, brings a lot of energy to the role, but it's not enough to counterbalance the film's heavy-handed predictability.
09/18/03
Juan arms himself with a rewritten town constitution and a pistol. Kinky sex and ill-gotten dinero shortly follow.
09/16/03
Alcazar makes a deft transition from idiot to maniac, serving as an anchor for the broad performances around him.
09/12/03
As the story unfolds, Alcazar's slow-burn performance pays off with a venomous brilliance, making the audience choke on the guffaws that came so easily earlier.
07/25/03
Luis Estrada, the co-writer and director, uses his characters so clearly as symbols that he neglects to give them the complexity of human beings.
07/11/03
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