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Miami Vice (2006)

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Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 190
Fresh: 89 | Rotten: 101

Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann's better films.

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Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 42
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 13

Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann's better films.

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Movie Info

Writer and director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking television crime series he created in the 1980s with this stylish thriller. Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) and Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) are two police detectives working undercover in Florida; Tubbs is smart, cool, and resourceful, while Crockett has his own way of doing things, though he stays close enough to the rules to stay out of trouble. Their latest assignment is to get the goods on Arcangel de Jesus Montoya (Luis Tosar), a

R, 2 hr. 12 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Anthony Henden Yerkovich, Michael Mann

Dec 5, 2006

$63.4M

Universal Pictures

Cast

All Critics (197) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (93) | Rotten (104) | DVD (28)

This somber action picture bravely defies expectations and gives us something wholly new.

October 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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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.

August 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Miami Vice isn't perfect, but it is perfectly mesmerizing.

August 5, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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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.

August 3, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Observer | Comment
New York Observer
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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.

July 28, 2006 Comment
San Jose Mercury News
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The truest thing to say about Miami Vice is that it's an OK picture with some superb things in it.

July 28, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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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.

April 8, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
ComingSoon.net

Mann has no peer today when it comes to painting after-hours dread

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing.

July 1, 2009 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment (1)
Antagony & Ecstasy

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.

April 22, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | Comment
ColeSmithey.com

Dark, violent update of TV series. Not for kids.

July 16, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them.

April 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Stranger Song | Comment
Stranger Song

No one, but no one does crime like Michael Mann.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | Comment
BrandonFibbs.com

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.

August 28, 2007 Full Review Source: Projection Booth | Comment
Projection Booth

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.

August 26, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

Michael Mann seems to have set out to extricate everything that made the show fun and original.

August 13, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | Comment
eFilmCritic.com

A pointless exercise.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comments (2)
Big Picture Big Sound

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.

March 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Heritage Konpa Magazine | Comments (4)
Heritage Konpa Magazine

A highly satisfying piece of stylish pop entertainment.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Miami Vice

Action: Realistic and engaging (except for the last gunfight where some fool shoots under a car... you'll see why). Plot: Absolutely horrible with one of the worst chemistries put into film (between Colin Farrell and some asian chick). It could've been great, but there were way too many problems with this highly

September 18, 2010
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

I might be one of the only people that thoroughly enjoy and respect Michael Mann's full length adaption of his t.v. series. I just think it has all the great things about cop dramas and all of the great techniques of Michael Mann. The digital video is ridiculously fitting for a movie about two Narcs in the middle of a

January 25, 2010
ythelastman89

Super Reviewer

    1. Ricardo Tubbs: Do you wanna fuck with my partner or do you wanna do business with us? 'Cause I don't give a shit how you think he looks.
    – Submitted by Alex A (9 months ago)
    1. Sonny Crockett: I'm a fiend for mojitos.
    – Submitted by Alex A (9 months ago)

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