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Miami Vice (2006)

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Reviews Counted:39

Fresh:26

Rotten:13

Average Rating:6.4/10

Consensus: 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.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence, language and some sexual content

Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:2006

Box Office: $63,378,610

Synopsis: The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time... The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice. Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx of Ray, Jarhead) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, played by British actress Naomie Harris (28 Days Later, upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean II and III), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell of S.W.A.T., The New World) ]to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Isabella is played by the Chinese actress Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha). The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Miami Vice, as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover...especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don't count... Miami Vice stars Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Naomie Harris and Ciarán Hinds and is written and directed by Michael Mann, who also produces along with Pieter Jan Brugge; Anthony Yerkovich serves as executive producer. -- © Universal Pictures [More]

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Justin Theroux, Ciaran Hinds, Luis Tosar, Barry Shabaka Henley, John Ortiz

Director: Michael Mann

Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Anthony Yerkovich, Michael Mann
Producer: Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
Composer: John Murphy
Studio: Universal Pictures

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

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
10/07/06
Stephanie Zacharek
Stephanie Zacharek
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.

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08/07/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Miami Vice isn't perfect, but it is perfectly mesmerizing.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/05/06
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
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.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
08/03/06
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
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.

Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News | comment Comment
07/28/06
Bruce Newman
Bruce Newman
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.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
07/28/06
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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If you're looking for a crime story that sizzles with action, sex and the visceral jolt of life on the edge, Miami Vice is the one.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
07/28/06
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Miami Vice, the movie, is an atmospheric muddle, as gorgeous and unintelligible as raven-haired stunner Gong Li.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
07/28/06
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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It offers a good amount of crowd-pleasing action, but the story is convoluted and the heroes are scowling mannequins.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
07/28/06
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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The antidote to M:i:III, Pirates II and every other circus of coagulated stunts is Miami Vice, my favorite Hollywood movie of the summer so far.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/28/06
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Miami Vice is the last of the predicted summer blockbusters, and it delivers a reasonable amount of popcorn excitement.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/28/06
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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It might be an empty vessel, but it zooms.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/28/06
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle
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Sensual and scary, the movie is so visually textured you feel as though you're brushing against the screen.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
07/28/06
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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Perhaps had they been given a script, a purpose or a mission, Miami Vice the movie might have been something worthy of the talented Mann's attention.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
07/28/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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Miami Vice exudes the kind of gritty life we expect, so much so that you might argue that neither Crockett nor Tubbs deserves to be called a main character; Mann reserves that role for crime itself.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
07/28/06
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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The film, like its oddly rumbling sky, promises more than it ever delivers. Granted, it can look cool. But more often, as we wait for the lightning that never arrives, it frustrates.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
07/28/06
Lisa Kennedy
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
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The movie is seriously sexy and seriously entertaining.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment 1 Comment
07/28/06
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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The new Miami Vice movie is not designed to leave audiences in a partying mood. On its own terms, though, it's frequently worthy of cheers.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
07/27/06
Philip Wuntch
Philip Wuntch
Dallas Morning News
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Compared with Mann's other films, Miami Vice lacks the slam-bang set pieces of Heat and the human dynamic of Collateral.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
07/27/06
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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Mixing pop savvy with startling formal ambition, Michael Mann transforms a long, fairly predictable cop-show episode into a dazzling (and sometimes daft) Wagnerian spectacle.

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07/27/06
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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