Routine in some respects, but in others, it delivers everything expected of a summer blockbuster. And it's gorgeous.
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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Reviews for Miami Vice
Two of the show's coolest elements are also gone; Crockett's double shoulder holster and Jan Hammer's theme song. How do you make this movie without that theme?
Michael Mann has come a long way since his days supervising Miami Vice on TV, and it's fascinating to watch a filmmaker of such extraordinary ability working a slice of pure cheesecake like this.
I can't wait to see if the sequel has them going to Russia to stop prostitute trafficking or perhaps back in time to Chicago to stop liquor smuggling during prohibition.
I have no idea why studio executives think Mann is a go-to-guy for summer fare. He's so serious and so concerned with setting a scene and establishing grit that his movies lack coherency or, far more important, fun.
Then it's off to a too-fast, too-expensive car with Farrell as Colin's hair takes the wheel, adjusts the mirror, and gives Foxx a Shiatsu. 'Lucky, hairy bastard!' says Colin.
Su principal atractivo es el de ver cómo Hollywood es capaz de tirar el dinero para producir un filme que se irá de cartelera de la misma forma en que llegó, con más pena que gloria.
Michael Mann is the first director to make Colin Farrell seem like a man rather than the impish thugs or mooning boy-men he usually gives us.
Michael Mann foregoes the pastel and panache of the original because Colin Farrell is not the same cat as Don Johnson. The result isn't bad; it's just different.
Most of Michael Mann's movies have been broad-chested exercises in machismo ... but few have dealt in the sort of self-parodic chest-beating that undoes Miami Vice.
Mann can't be faulted for his visual take on the grit and the glitter of high stakes cocaine rustling, but at 146 minutes he could have found more room for the psychological nuances...
A tense urban drama about two gutsy undercover cops who enjoy their improvised lives of danger and surprises.
Miami Vice is long, dull and dark and does little to stimulate the moviegoer's mind or eye.
Neither Crockett nor Tubbs have enough of an inner life to support such multilayered storytelling.
Even as it sinks to shocking depths in the shadow of its own flagrant egotism, Miami Vice is nearlyjust nearlysaved by its top-shelf aesthetics.
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