Miami Vice (2006)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 192
Fresh: 90 | Rotten: 102
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.
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Critic Reviews: 44
Fresh: 31 | 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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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
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Cast
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Colin Farrell
Sonny Crockett -
Jamie Foxx
Ricardo Tubbs -
Li Gong
Isabella -
Naomie Harris
Trudy Joplin -
Ciarán Hinds
FBI Agent Fujima -
Justin Theroux
Detective Larry Zito -
Barry Shabaka Henley
Lt. Martin Castillo -
Luis Tosar
Montoya -
John Ortiz
José Yero, José Yero, ... -
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Gina Callabrese -
Domenick Lombardozzi
Switek -
Eddie Marsan
Nicholas -
Isaach De Bankolé
Neptune -
John Hawkes
Stevens Alonzo -
Tom Towles
Coleman -
Mario Ernesto Sánchez
El Tiburon -
Frankie Jay Allison
Deep-Chested Aryan Brot... -
Anthony Curran
Aryan Brother -
Stephanie Astalos Jones
Dark-Haired Aryan Broth... -
Robert W. Larson
Long-Haired Aryan Broth... -
Don Frye
Long-Haired Aryan Broth... -
Maxim Danilov
Russian FBI Agent -
Pasha D. Lychnikoff
Russian FBI Agent -
Ana Cristina de Oliveira
Female Bartender -
Everlayn Borges
Miss Cuba -
Juanita Billue
Miss Jamaica -
Patrick Michael Buckley
Air Traffic Controller -
Marc Macaulay
Air Traffic Supervisor -
Mike Pniewski
ER Doctor -
Vivienne Sendaydiego
ER Doctor -
Richard Katanga
Haitian Paramilitary Ca... -
Dexter Fletcher
Haitian Paramilitary -
Oleg Taktarov
Russian Security -
Alexander Rafalski
Isabella's Security -
Ilan Krigsfeld
Isabella's Security -
Juliana Guedes
Isabella's Secretary -
James Maurice Rowan Jr.
Guy in Double Wide Trai... -
Deborah Demere
Woman in Double Wide Tr... -
Abdel Tornes
The Courier -
Maria Lura Leon
Casino Office Worker -
Kenny Acevedo
FBI Agent -
Julia Yarbough
Herself -
Ryan M. Phillips
Newscaster -
Amir Aviram
Guy Hitting on Gina -
Julia Perevedentseva
Blonde Talking to Tubbs -
Gilbert Quintana
Marine Shed Guard -
Eboni Nichols
Dancer -
Michael Pniewski
ER Doctor
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All Critics (200) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (94) | Rotten (105) | DVD (28)
This somber action picture bravely defies expectations and gives us something wholly new.
Top CriticMann 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.
It's business as usual for Mann. Truly terrific.
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.
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.
A pointless exercise.
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.
Audience Reviews for Miami Vice
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- Isabella: Do you dance?
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- 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.
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- Sonny Crockett: I'm a fiend for mojitos.
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In many ways Miami Vice is a film about the thin line between good and bad, and a documentary like dive into the criminal underworld of Miami and Cuba. Most of all it is a heartbreaking story of a doomed love. Like many of his films before which have had strong themes of love as a destructive element, Miami Vice has that theme too. But this time Mann makes it the main storyline here. In films like Heat and Public Enemies, the romance between characters was more of a sideplot.
This is a great film not only in a terms of a storytelling but in terms of execution also. Along with photographer Dion Beebe Mann make his film look fantastic. Most of the time this film is like a greatest of paintings. Dark and stylish shots of Miami at the night time are full of menace and atmosphere. With the ice-cold shades of blue and the authentic HD-lensing, Mann makes Miami seem like a dreamy netherworld. It's like a mix of David Lynch's disturbing vision of Los Angeles and Mann's cool and gritty cityscapes. It's a city where industrial landscapes collides with the restless sea. Mann also perfectly capures the more exotic views of Cuba and makes it look like a lost paradise which also has a dangerous flipside in it.
In last two decades Michael Mann has made some of the most visually breathtaking films and gained a status as a one of the major directors in Hollywood. In my opinon he is a undisputed genius and one of the best auteurs that America or the whole world has ever seen. Miami Vice may not be perfect but it is muscular piece of entertainment and glorious to watch at.