Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV Series) Boots on the Ground (2011) User Reviews

Boots firmly on the ground

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 3 November 2021]

The idea of the story is a very good and interesting one. 'Law and Order: Criminal Intent' was a great show at its best, despite being very inconsistent in the later episodes. Had high hopes for "Boots on the Ground", after being so impressed by the previous two episodes "Rispetto" and "The Consolor". And anything that has Michael Kelly, so wonderful in 'House of Cards' and no stranger to the 'Law and Order' franchise, already interests me further.

"Boots on the Ground" didn't disappoint in yet another great episode of a very high quality and far too short season. Perhaps it is not the best episode of Season 10, but it is one of the best looking ones (that's being mild) and has one of the best individual scenes of the show in quite some time. Everything with the therapy left me mixed for this season overall, but "Boots on the Ground" is another strong example of the writers seeming to remember what made 'Criminal Intent' so great at its best.

Am going to start with the numerous excellent things this time. It is the best looking episode of the season, the best looking episode of the show in a while and one of the best looking episodes of the show overall perhaps. It has some beautiful stylish shots and has a subtly gritty atmosphere. The music didn't sound melodramatic or too constant and the direction is accomodating while still having pulse.

Writing is thoughtful and lean without being dry with no signs of extraneous fat. The story is crisply paced and has complexity and tension with many complex but plausible and not confusing twists and turns, the climax is one of the best individual scenes of the show in quite some time with its tension, shock value and Goren shining in the way only Goren can. The way the perpetrator is taken down is memorable.

Can't fault the regulars, Vincent D'Onofrio always delivered on the show regardless of the material, and Kelly is perfectly cast in a role that plays to his strengths as an actor.

My only issue was the therapy session, that felt on the tacked on side especially in a case like this.

In summary, excellent once again. 9/10.

She's a 21 century revolutionary. No bombs, just computers

[Mrpalli77 · 7/10 · 15 October 2017]

Mercenaries against Cyber warfare. That's the key point of this episode. A man in his thirties (Aaron Mathias) jumped out of a penthouse in central Manhattan; as usual, it's easy for Goren to figure out someone pushed him by looking shoes print in the paving stone. The victim was a computer genius who worked for a company and stole information from a competitor in the war business. He was home- schooled by his mother who taught him all the basis needed to become a leader (Schopenhauer, Hegel, Marcus Aurelius) and he was a charming lady's man. The suspects had different motives to kill him, anyway the real perp is someone you shouldn't have bet a dime at the beginning.

The character who struck me the most is the old-fashioned terrorist mother. She didn't blink an eye when detectives told her about the accident, planning right away her old-style revenge. Goren teases her about the time needed by special forces to locate her (just six hours).

Excellent episode that made the show riveting.

[tavasiloff · 10/10 · 28 September 2020]

Thoroughly enjoyed the story line and appreciated D'Onofrio's intriguing, in-depth portrayal of Goren. The flashbacks added emotional depth. A truly great series.

Hacking business

[bkoganbing · 6/10 · 17 April 2016]

Jeri Ryan and Michael Kelly play a couple of defense contractors in the hacking business. These two come into an investigation that Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe are assigned from Major Case of a highly skilled hacker whose very identity is bogus.

It seems as though the demands for the skills of the deceased are considerable. Ryan and Kelly have a well known rivalry in that field although Ryan has some considerable other charms to employ than Kelly does for any red blooded American male that's straight.

All I'll say here is that there's enough culpability to go around when the truth is discovered by the eclectic team of Goren and Eames.

À weird episode

[jn-02940 · 1/10 · 28 April 2022]

This episode is about two people doing battle and matching wits this is what happens when an innocent man is murdered in cold blood by two egomaniac narcissistic people.