Powerful

Lack of good storyline.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I was a big fan of Law & Order: Criminal Intent with Vincent D'Onofrio. So, when they brought in Chris Noth to fill big shoes, I tried to go along. But in the 2007 episode "30" they lost me forever. The anti semitic message rang loud and clear. I realize the show was canceled. Now I know that that was a good thing.

While this show had been good to me for many years, and would make a good show to marathon on Netflix, this show is simply trash police propaganda, as with all other shows such as this. I will never watch this show, or any show like this, again. While at one time it was good to me and good for me, it's plainly propaganda for the police and other hands of government that I want no part of. That negates anything else this show has to offer. This belongs in the trash and in the past, as do the rest of the shows like this. This show is bathed in grey; grey filters, grey locations, grey characters and an overall grey aesthetic that brings down an already downer of a show.

I read all reviews and I'm happy that most of them are positive.I'm relatively new to CI and after a quick count it became clear that I saw only third of the episodes so far. I can hardly explain how much I love the series. It means Goren and Eames to me - the stories with other detectives do not interest me at all. I began to watch because of the cases, but soon Vincent D'Onofrio lured away my attention. He is such a fine and talented actor, a true artist, and his Goren is such a pleasure to watch!He is clever, funny, overwhelming, awesome..I simply adore his little mannerisms, strange movements and flexibility which made Bobby so unique.He's a gentle giant, I find him so sexy and handsome even in the later seasons when he's older and heavier. What a gorgeous man!I think Goren is one of the greatest fictional characters, just like Sherlock Holmes, whom he is based upon. Some reviews say he is irritating - if you want to see really irritating "acting", try CSI:Miami and look for red hair..My opinion is that Kate Erbe is as superb as Vincent. I do not see Eames as a mere sidekick, she is a great character and complements Goren totally. She is a smart, clever, brave cop in a tough manly environment. I like her sarcasm, the show needs that tiny amount of fun she provides. What I like the most in the Goren-Eames partnership is the deep respect they have for each other, but I'm not a shipper at all.I love every episode I saw, it is really hard to pick favs, but those with super villain Nicole Wallace are phenomenal. I really liked Art (1.2.), Jones (1.5.), Badge (1.20.), Chinoiserie (2.5.) and Prisoner (5.3.), just to mention a few.I'd like to say big thanks to all the fine actors, writers and crew who created such an amazing show.

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.