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This somber action picture bravely defies expectations and gives us something wholly new.
Mann is the master of nighttime digital photography, and he fills the screen with stunning images and some intricately choreographed shoot-out scenes that I just loved.
Miami Vice isn't perfect, but it is perfectly mesmerizing.
I enjoyed Mr. Mann's new Miami Vice from its first ravishing frame to the last, but I can't say that very much of it made sense -- but then, neither do the daily headlines.
The movie isn't perfect, but it's good enough, and better than most. It should keep us occupied until the big screen version of The Apprentice comes along.
The truest thing to say about Miami Vice is that it's an OK picture with some superb things in it.
Miami Vice isn't a particularly accurate translation of the show - and depending on your point of view that could be good or bad - but it is a stylish, if uninspired, crime thriller.
Mann has no peer today when it comes to painting after-hours dread
Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing.
Michael Mann ridiculously attempts to inflate an episode of his '80s TV show into a feature length ballad of undercover ennui, lust and bloody intimidation.
Dark, violent update of TV series. Not for kids.
[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them.
No one, but no one does crime like Michael Mann.
Fans of the theatrical version will have to settle for a slimmer special features department if they don't want the viewing experience unnecessarily botched.
The Foxx-Farrell pairing can best be summed up by the first real Crockett-Tubbs scene in the film: on the rooftop of a club, on the phone... having separate conversations. The two share the frame and the on-set air but nothing else.
Michael Mann seems to have set out to extricate everything that made the show fun and original.
No chemistry, no cool, no compelling characters, no air of urgency. Just a very average crime caper which fails to entertain the viewer on a gut, cerebral or superficial level. Not exactly your father's Miami Vice.
A highly satisfying piece of stylish pop entertainment.
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