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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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This is a movie of extremes: alternately dazzling and deadening, careening between stylish and stultifying, tough going on occasion and smooth sailing the rest of the way. Yet in the final count, it's the virtues that save this Vice.

Full Review Source: Creative Loafing | comment Comment
08/06/06
Matt Brunson
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing

a watchable, but otherwise unremarkable flick.

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
08/06/06
Sean McBride
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

Miami Vice is pure Miami Vice. It's pure Michael Mann. And most importantly of all, Colin Farrell is pure Don Johnson

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
08/06/06
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Mann wants to distance his film from the Reagan-era consumerist fantasy of the TV show that inspired it, but all he does is put a dour veneer of visual grime over the same attitudes.

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
08/06/06
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk

Not the film we were promised but no shame either, Miami Vice is loaded with just enough thrills and spills to keep us glued to our seats.

Full Review Source: FilmFocus | comment Comment
08/06/06
Joe Utichi
Joe Utichi
FilmFocus

If you're looking for the Don Johnson version of Sonny Crockett, you're better off looking at television re-runs.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
08/05/06
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Many critics have found in Mann's films an excess of macho bluster. I can only say his power and exuberant self-belief expose the indentikit dullness of a hundred other meagre film-makers working with similar material.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
08/05/06
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

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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Spearheaded by the compelling paring of Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, Miami Vice delivers serious action, dangerous liaisons and spectacular locations in a tense and highly anticipated drama adapted from the 80s TV series.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
08/05/06
Urban Cinefile Critics
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Urban Cinefile

There isn't much real chemistry between Farrell and Fox, or even Farrel and Li, so we really don't believe much of what's going on.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
08/04/06
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

Thrums with a raw, fierce, jazzy soul.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
08/04/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

A highly-influential TV show winds up as a decent but flawed movie and the hunt for a truly great 2006 summer blockbuster continues.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
08/04/06
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Bearing all the Mann hallmarks, this is visually enthralling, relentlessly stylish crime drama. A little too languorous for its own good at times, but still vastly superior entertainment.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
08/04/06
Simon Braund
Simon Braund
Empire Magazine

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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It's business as usual for Mann. Truly terrific.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
08/03/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

Farrell is superb as Crockett, even managing to avoid being out-acted by his ridiculous moustache, and his scenes with Gong Li (whose English accent sadly hasn't improved since Memoirs of a Geisha) generate real chemistry.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
08/03/06
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Beautiful to look at and difficult to embrace, this is a movie of moments, not of overall narrative force.

Full Review Source: DVD Verdict | comment Comment
08/02/06
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
DVD Verdict

I say, bring back the pastel suits, the flamingos, and the Jan Hammer score. You can keep Phil Collins, though.

Full Review Source: Aisle Seat | comment Comment
08/02/06
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

Takes itself so seriously that you'd think you were watching a production of King Lear -- except King Lear is positively action-packed by comparison.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
08/02/06
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

"Miami Vice" is singularly lacking an iconoclastic style. It's shot with a gritty, shaky approach.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
08/02/06
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca
 
 
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