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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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Shockingly, the movie is never really heightened artistically...Miami Vice feels relentlessly tired and trivial in its raucous tracks.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
07/28/06
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

Gone is the dreamy atmosphere of sun-kissed decadence, replaced by joyless business transactions that are punctuated by short, sharp shocking bursts of violence...

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/28/06
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Vice lacks that human touch, those insights into the men away from their beats... Mannequin Vice might have made for a better title.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/28/06
Sean O'Connell
Sean O'Connell
Filmcritic.com

If you were a fan of the popular trend-setting TV show, this film should suit you just fine.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/28/06
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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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For those seeking an intense, seductive and gritty crime drama, Miami Vice delivers the goods.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
07/28/06
Stax
Stax
IGN Movies

Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell never seem like the bricks who often star in dumb crime movies. The drug-world Miami Vice is itself the brick: dope for dopes.

Full Review Source: San Diego Union-Tribune | comment Comment
07/28/06
David Elliott
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune

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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Overall, Miami Vice is a modestly entertaining action fix for long-time fans of the TV series, but isn't the expert, polished film I expected from the mature Mann.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
07/28/06
Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Mann has managed to do something the original Miami Vice never could: He's bleached all personality out of Crockett and Tubbs, and made Miami into a big (if bloody) bore.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
07/28/06
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Reel.com

Writer-director Michael Mann exchanges interest in this plotline for gorgeous cinematography and an orgy of first-rate movie violence, though it's a shame we have to wait two hours for it.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Daily News | comment Comment
07/28/06
Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

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 works as well as it ever did. It works because Mann makes it work.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
07/28/06
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

You want it to be a gripping drama, but it turns out to be, more or less, an especially attractive shop window. Look, drool even, but don't think.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
07/28/06
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

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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What the film revival of Miami Vice lacks in substance it makes up for in adrenaline.

Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
07/28/06
Duane Dudek
Duane Dudek
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

This is more of a thinking man's action flick -- a small, intense film made on a giant canvas that finds Mann experimenting with and pushing at the boundaries of mainstream filmmaking.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
07/28/06
Rene Rodriguez
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
 
 
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