Alfredo Herrera This film has a lot of good things: good photography; excellent actors; a good recreation of Mexico in that times (so I've heard); the low-saturated colors are also a pretty detail... Anyway, I think that this topic of corruption could lead to a much better film. I mean, the story could have been a much more real and deep scope on the topic. Actually, the film ends up with a situation where you can easily split things into "good" and "bad" characters "good" and "wrong" actions... However, the intention of the story was another, and it is very well driven. As a comedy, the film is excellent and refined. And also very funny, specially if you speak Spanish.

atovar_movies This movie presents Mexico's political reality in all ways. If you want to see a funny movie with lots of decision making situations, this is the one for you.Sadly it's Mexico's reality but a no-brainer in terms of Mexican Cinema

valente_cabrera I should say that this movie is one of the most boring I have ever seen. Sadly most of the mexican-weekend-cinema-goers this movie was better than anything. Luckily, the movie helped the mexican cinema, but not because of it's content, any movie from the 80´s (Valentín Trujillo for example) has much more content, cinematography idea, script, than this movie.If are in the mood for getting surprised or astonished, go and rent movies from the 80's or 70's, "La Ley de Herodes" besides making me feel bored, I also felt ashamed, sleepy and upset because of the money I paid for watching it.From 10, 5 points.

cjclark I first heard about this film on NPR in an interesting program about the ruckus this film may have caused with with it's own government. This lively film pulls a number of punches at politics of this era. A sharp and amusing black political comedy that keeps you engaged from the very beginning. A lowly civil servant gets a "promotion" to become the law in a desolate backwater Mexican village. It is a universal tale of greed, corruption and fate which had me chuckling for hours. If you can imagine a tasty, spicy satire pie baked up with treachery, a wry wit and superb performances, then by all means take of big bite of this delicious treat.