La Ley de Herodes (Herod's Law) (2000)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 3
No consensus yet.
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Luis Estrada directs this groundbreaking and extremely controversial satire about Mexico's long-ruling political party, the PRI. Set in the late 1940s in the remote, thoroughly backwards village of San Pedro de los Saguaros, the film focuses on Vargas (Damian Alcazar), a petty politician who had the dubious honor of being appointed town mayor after his predecessor was decapitated for corruption by an angry mob. At first, he tries to balance the books and to bring the 20th century to the
Cast
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Damián Alcázar
Juan Vargas -
Pedro Armendariz Jr.
Lopez -
Delia Casanova
Rosa -
Juan Carlos Colombo
Ramirez -
Alex Cox
Gringo -
Guillermo Gil
Priest -
Ernesto Gomez Cruz
Governor -
Leticia Huijara
Gloria -
Luis de Icaza
Alfredo Garcia -
Eduardo López Rojas
Doctor -
Manuel Ojeda
Barman -
Salvador Sanchez
Pek -
Evangelina Sosa
Perlita -
Isela Vega
Dona Lupe
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All Critics (31) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (8) | DVD (4)
Herod's Law is beautifully photographed, its imagery glazed with a sepia patina that suggests dust and neglect.
Top CriticAlczar, 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.
Alcazar makes a deft transition from idiot to maniac, serving as an anchor for the broad performances around him.
Accomplished and delightfully subversive.
Funny, evocatively photographed, and vibrantly acted salvo.
Comes off as cartoonish drivel, broadly played and poorly written.
Often heavy-handed and obvious.
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.
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.
Yeah, OK, we know. Absolutely power corrupts absolutely. What else?
Juan arms himself with a rewritten town constitution and a pistol. Kinky sex and ill-gotten dinero shortly follow.
Audience Reviews for La Ley de Herodes (Herod's Law)
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- Rosa: My husband...
- Gringo: Is an asshole.
- Rosa: Is an asshole.
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- Juan Vargas: What do I do with the body?
- Dona Lupe: Stick it yourself.
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Foreign Titles
- Herod's Law (DE)
- Herod's Law (UK)
