Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

kofila I just love this show. I have always loved cop shows and whodunnits but often struggled due to the stupidity of the writing. I could never get into stuff life Hawaii 5-0, NCIS, or the later installments of CSI because I always found the characters to be dumb as well as the writing and the forced action sequences... But this show is different. You don't have to memorize 12 faceless brainiacs in the lab but just two detectives. One is a classic one and the other is Vincent D'Onofrio who is the real deal and moving force behind the whole series. His performance often brought me thrills, then to tears or unexpected sudden bursts of joy. He is a true master of his art and one of the most unappreciated actors alive. So thank you, Vincent and Dick Wolf, for making cops intelligent again, paying homage to the classic detectives like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot and paving the way for shows like Monk, Psych or the Mentalist.

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 .

Robert J. Maxwell I've only sinned once in my life and that was with a girl named Mildred, but she was exceptionally dumb and didn't know it was a sin anyway. Still, I'd like to make a confession."Law and Order", the original series was a real winner in its first decade or so. I am a huge fan, and that's the confession. I had to make it because this is a Dick Wolf product too -- and it's awful."Law and Order" smacked of the New York City streets. The diesel exhaust hung in the air in layers. And the acting was unusually realistic for an ordinary TV cop series. The detectives could argue briefly over issues like abortion. Most of the characters didn't even LOOK like Hollywood actors, though most of them were. I suppose Chris Noth was young and handsome but was anyone else? Would you call Michael Moriarty handsome? Or Steven Hill? No. No, you wouldn't.In "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," most of what made "Law and Order" outstanding is thrown away. Instead of prowling the ghetto, these investigators deal with the up-trodden. There is some scam involving expensive paintings, for instance, and, surprise, one of the detectives knows all about expensive paintings -- just as a well-paid screenwriter might.What makes it worse is that the series belongs to Vincent D'Onofrio's character and he's the guy who knows it all. Oh, he doesn't come right out and say so. But he knows all right. He sort of sidles up to the criminals and reveals bit by bit that he's a few steps ahead of them.Still worse, "Law and Order" was as exemplary as it was because it focused on the investigation almost exclusively. No back stories, no love affairs, no histories, no family problems to speak of, although they were given just enough screen time for us to be aware of them. "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" is far more traditional in spending so much time with the perps. I don't particularly want to know about the perps and their problems, not in a TV series lasting less than an hour per episode. It's a zero sum game. You linger over the perps, you lose the cops.And -- well, here's another confession -- I've only seen a handful of episodes but the structure is almost identical. At the end, one of the criminals is brought into the interrogation room, surrounded by investigators, including D'Onofrio and his major domo, Kathryn Erbe.D'Onofrio begins a quietly insinuating reconstruction of the crime, enumerating the evidence against the perp, then begins to sling crime-scene photos in from of him or her, bends over and begins shouting the kind of come-clean demands that would activate the stretch reflex in a dog's hind leg. I wouldn't break down and sob out a confession. I'd tell him to go perform an anatomical impossibility. I wouldn't really, but I'd feel like it.It was a big disappointment. (When did crime labs become so dark?) Maybe the other episodes are an improvement over the handful that I watched. I hope so. Oh, Richard, thou hast robbed me of my illusions.

robnels2000 I have watched several episodes but every time I am totally amazed that they gave Vincent D'Onofrio a lead role. Watching him work a case is just painful, especially when he does the big reveal at the end. I have seen better acting in Jr. High School Plays.Otherwise this show leaves a lot to be desired, it's nothing special or different from any other cop show on today or in the last 30 years. Cop shows have all been the same, when one ends there's a new one in a season or two that does the same thing the same way with no imagination or originality.I find the more unlikely cop shows, like Castle and The Mentalist, more enjoyable simply because they are different. Maybe this show and the other L&O and CSI shows should pay attention and find something new.