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Miami Vice (2006)

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Reviews Counted:186

Fresh:88

Rotten:98

Average Rating:5.5/10

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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While Miami Vice is heavy on the style and visuals of Mann's other films, almost everything else which makes his work so watchable is absent.

Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) | comment Comment
08/31/06
Harry Guerin
Harry Guerin
RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

Mullett mediocrity.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
08/30/06
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

What a boring movie.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
08/25/06
JoBlo
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium

Miami Vice is stylish and slick. It visually smacks you in the head and makes you pay attention.

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
08/21/06
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

Like the show itself, as much as there is a ton of style on offer, there is little in the way of real substance

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
08/21/06
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

Were it not for its title, this plodding, tiresome mess would have never seen the light of day.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/17/06
Collin Souter
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com

In retrospect it is clear that the rapturous Miami Vice is the work Mann has been building to.

Full Review Source: House Next Door | comment Comment
08/16/06
Keith Uhlich
Keith Uhlich
House Next Door

The best bad movie of the year so far, or the worst interesting movie...certainly the most esoterically constructed blockbuster that ever donned a $150-million price tag.

Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks | comment Comment
08/15/06
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

This has more in common with a Wong Kar-wai film than any Hollywood movie I've seen lately.

Full Review Source: Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus | comment Comment
08/15/06
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

Mann's aim seems to return an artistry to the cop drama, it's much the same high ambition he had two decades ago with his TV show the method is definitely different but the results are even more pleasing.

Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | comment Comment
08/14/06
Bruce Bennett
Bruce Bennett
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

There's no style, glitz, glamour, or music! The movie is called MIAMI VICE! How can you have "Miami Vice" without at least ONE good Music montage? At the very least you would think, the movie would have some, oh, I don't know, ACTION!

Full Review Source: Eclipse Magazine | comment 2 Comments
08/13/06
Michelle Alexandria
Michelle Alexandria
Eclipse Magazine
N/R

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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
08/11/06
Sydney Morning Herald

Hits on notes lower than the Smuggler's Blues.

Full Review Source: Oregon Herald | comment Comment
08/10/06
Mark Sells
Mark Sells
Oregon Herald

Overlong and dull.

Full Review Source: SA Movie & DVD Magazine | comment Comment
08/10/06
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
SA Movie & DVD Magazine

cool but not as cool

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment Comment
08/09/06
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is

Farrell and Foxx are partners? They don’t even look at each other in Mann’s remake of his acclaimed “Heat.”

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment 3 Comments
08/09/06
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

Several voters at Jumptheshark.com believe the Miami Vice TV show jumped the shark when Don Johnson married Sheena Easton. The big-screen version of Miami Vice jumps the shark about 45 minutes into the movie.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
08/09/06
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

...the non-stop action doesn't just complicate the officers' relationships -- it prevents us from connecting strongly with them.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
08/07/06
Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet
Christianity Today

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.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
08/07/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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I haven't seen so many cold stares in one movie since March of the Penguins.

Full Review Source: Boulder Weekly | comment Comment
08/07/06
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
 
 
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