Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Micitype Pretty Good

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

knoll-981-844119 The format for the USA's version of Law & Order was plagiarised from a UK series of the same name, written by GF Newman for the BBC. The UK series was offered to an American network, they rejected it, but Mr Wolf who was an executive at the network, liking the format so much, left the network and took the format with him. 20 years later, assuming all those who were in the know were dead, he showed the format to another generation of network execs and they saw the potential.British version is still better, a lot more grittier, better written with stories with a truth about the police and the legal system in the UK, the problem with the American franchise of Law & Order is the cases all end with a plea bargain, this is totally indicative of the poor legal system in the USA.

mikelmike77 This show is truly bad , the concept that a cop is also some junior therapist who can somehow read people so well that he can figure out who dun it is very unbelievable . The character and the lines are awful and unrealistic .D'nofrio a average actor can't pull it off but neither could any of the others .When Chris Noth was the lead he didn't have these special instincts that Jeff Goldblum and others were saddled with trying to sell . The Columbo style techniques he tries to use like bringing up supposedly stressful incidents from the suspects past , or tendencies and personality quirks they exhibit to get them to suddenly fall apart and confess are really terrible , its just not realistic or believable or entertaining , how its lasted is a mystery that maybe officer sigmund could solve .

bkoganbing Law & Order: Criminal Intent certainly had a ready made audience with the success of the two previous Law and Order series. Still when it came out the producers were treading on some thin ice by making the detectives as quirky as they were. The original Law and Order series had cops with personalities, but were generally all business.Vincent Donofrio's Robert Goren was all business, but he was totally consumed by the job. He certainly had a few issues as we later learned concerning his mother, Rita Moreno who was in a few episodes, but his lack of involvement with the rest of the human race may have made him more detached and able to ferret clues with the skill of Adrian Monk. Not even the remotest kind of pass was ever made at the beautiful Kathryn Erbe who partnered with him for the first half of the series run.Law And Order fans already knew Detective Mike Logan and all of his good and bad points that Chris Noth brought for the CI series. Still it was great to see a more mature Logan, doggedly honest work through his caseload on alternate weeks. His run in actual life years given a bit of time before the original Law and Order series debuted was about the working life of a police detective.One thing I didn't like was the dropping of Courtney B. Vance's character of ADA Ron Carver. We only got to see him on trial pitted against defendant Rob Knepper in one of my two favorite Criminal Intent episodes. He was outstanding in that one. I presume the producers and writers wanted to concentrate more on the cops than on him and he was dropped. But if I were the producers I'd work him into either of the other series somehow and pay him whatever he wants. Vance is worth it.Now we have Jeff Goldblum who has the unusual background of having a psychologist dad and he combines that training with police training. Goldblum seems to have found his own character and like Donofrio and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, you can see the little gray cells at work all the time.Not as factually based as the original series, but CI has a great set of writers to come up with some novel stories every week.

dataconflossmoor-1 Chris Noth was such a big part of the original series "Law & Order" and he was indeed my favorite actor on the show! After becoming world renowned on "Sex and the City" he has returned to "Law & Order" by way of the compelling spin off series "Law & Order Criminal Intent". I like the episodes that he stars in, I am not all that crazy about the episodes that those other two people are in (Ha Ha!!). "Law & Order" will probably be the longest running prime time series in the whole history of television. I definitely can fathom all of the "Law & Order" television show's appeal!! Chris Meloni is extremely convincing in "Law & Order Criminal Intent". I do feel that Chris Noth has been an integral part of the success behind "Law & Order" and "Law & Order Criminal Intent"!! This string of "Law & Order" television shows has revolutionized the small screen in terms of how the average American perceives justice and criminal activity in New York City. Budget restraints are what determine a verdict of innocent or guilty. Plea bargaining becomes the necessary evil which placates all parties concerned! Chris Noth has always played a tough guy, and has always been very believable at doing so too! I strongly recommend seeing the television show "Law & Order Criminal Intent" and Chris Noth is a big reason why!!