GamerTab That was an excellent one.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

cadams-43409 I always liked this show. I didn't start watching it from the beginning so sometimes I still see a show I haven't seen before. Then I missed a couple of years when they went off network to (other than basic) cable. In any case, my main point is that the best combo by far is D'Onofrio/Erbe. Noth and Goldblum and their partners didn't come close although I like them and their partners individually as actors.By now, I have seen almost all of the episodes but I still like to watch the reruns. To me, the shows are a nice relaxing way to end the evening. Each episode is compact and compelling. Even if I've already seen an episode, it may have been so long ago that I don't remember all the details anyway.Interesting that the program or at least Det. Goren is compared to Sherlock Holmes. Maybe. I have also enjoyed Elementary with Aiden Quinn and Lucy Liu but sometimes the episodes are a bit too complex for 10 p.m. I'm lazy and I want to relax.I would love to see both D'Onofrio and Erbe in new episodes or something slightly different. I felt the same way about Poppy Montgomery and Anthony Paglia in Without a Trace and then again, PM in Unforgettable. I don't think producers realize how much loyalty viewers feel for some actors and that we want to continue seeing them. Sometimes it is about a comfort zone combined with quality. I felt the same way about Seinfeld and Frazier.Something new is not always something better.

mmoore325 Even though I have enjoyed a lot of excellent television in my lifetime, this is the only DVD set I've ever purchased (seasons 1 through 5). Often, I don't re-watch the episodes, but instead, I listen to them. Dialogue is like music to me, and this show has excellent writing and dialogue. My favorite seasons are 1 through 5. The stories are so rich; some of them are truly moving. Just hearing them helps me get through a rough day sometimes, or even helps me concentrate at work! I think what I appreciate most about this show, especially the early seasons, is that it's not crammed with the whole legal process like the original Law & Order, and it doesn't have melodrama with stupid twists and turns like SVU. I like that we get inside the criminals' heads, and then inside Goren's head as he figures out what is driving the criminals' pathology. I'm always more interested in WHY a criminal did something than the What or How. And then I come back to the voices of the actors - Goren, Eames, Deakins, Carver. I just love how their voices sound.My favorite episodes that I watch or listen all the time are Semi- Professional, Smothered, Phantom, Yesterday, Art, The Extra Man, My Good Name, Dead, Bright Boy, A Person of Interest, Seizure, Beast, Tomorrow, The Collective, Identity, and Sound Bodies. Other episodes that are excellent but I can rarely revisit are Badge, Acts of Contrition, Homo Homini Lupis, and Untethered.

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.

rgurecki1 Why because they are so good at what they do. Goren is like no other detective or TV with his brilliant mind. Give Goren, and well read detective with his brilliant is believable like no other detective on television. Give him one puzzle piece he can can put the whole picture of the crime scene. With Eames, Goen's often stabilizing force make them a dynamic duo of crime solving. You have a great show and don't be swayed by the numbers game, they can be swayed up and down by the decisions you make by some creative adjusting of the show.In short NBC (USA) whatever have made enough blunders. Some of the new shows look good now because they are a curiosity factor, but like a meteor most will they stay bright for a short period and burn up.L&O Ci, is a proved show with a long term audience. How many other shows can make that claim.If Eames and Goen want to leave, offer a creative incentive for them to stay. Those in the trenches usually know what the show needs better than the directors, producers and even the writers. Revamp the show not jettison the players that brought you the success.If you do the show is going to suffer big time because it or not Goen is the lynch pin to the show's success.Erbe is a great side kick and she's and she is as cute as a button as the cliché goes–good with the wise cracks.One improvement might be have a segment where Eames and Goren had a fallen out over Goren's suspension while working undercover and couldn't tell his partner Eames who took exception for being cut out of the loop. The follow up should be, and can still be, have a segment where talk it out on a park bench on the Hudson River Let them argue it out because Eames takes being left out of decisions personally and I'm surprised that you haven't dealt with that issue on the showBob Gurecki