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This probably one of the funniest and most clever Mexican film I have ever seen. The movie is a complete satire of Mexican corruption around the 60's I believe, and it gets to a lot because that is exactly what happened. The movie is funny because...
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This probably one of the funniest and most clever Mexican film I have ever seen. The movie is a complete satire of Mexican corruption around the 60's I believe, and it gets to a lot because that is exactly what happened. The movie is funny because it includes death, corruption, cheating, murder, etc. but still it manages to give out a complete look at corruption combined with dark comedy, which makes this movie quite exquisite. The ending was completely unexpected, I laughed so hard. Awesome picture.

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Posted feb 20, 2008 4:08 am pt

• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  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.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  88
  Incisive, highly entertaining political farce.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  80
  Smart, sassy and much more fun than most political diatribes.

  by Gregory Weinkauf | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  80
  Provocative, well-shot and vastly entertaining in its malice.

  by Leonardo Garcia Tsao | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  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.

  by John Patterson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  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.

  by Allison Benedikt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  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.

  by Ted Shen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  50
  The film is bold and passionate, but not subtle, and that is its downfall.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  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.

  by Carla Meyer | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  40
  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.

  by Scott Tobias | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  40
  It’s too didactic to be a spaghetti Western but lacks the moral compass required of a more evolved philosophical statement.

  by Marrit Ingman | Read Full Review »