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[George] Armitage gets Willeford's cracked black humor and slightly off-kilter universe ... Feb 12, 2016 | Full Review…
[George] Armitage gets Willeford's cracked black humor and slightly off-kilter universe ...
Sean Axmaker
What makes Miami Blues so true to its source material is that its "fun," fizzy elements don't completely dispel the roiling bile in its belly. Apr 27, 2015 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
What makes Miami Blues so true to its source material is that its "fun," fizzy elements don't completely dispel the roiling bile in its belly.
Noel Murray
Baldwin, Ward and Leigh are all perfect in this violent and funny and underseen gem. Sep 17, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Baldwin, Ward and Leigh are all perfect in this violent and funny and underseen gem.
Dan Fienberg
One of Baldwin's best performances in a solid black comedy Apr 7, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
One of Baldwin's best performances in a solid black comedy
James Sanford
Hard-boiled and consistently surprising. The entire cast shines. Apr 3, 2005 | Rating: 4/5
Hard-boiled and consistently surprising. The entire cast shines.
Scott Weinberg
A terrific crime movie that's both quirky and gritty. Oct 1, 2004 | Rating: 4/5
A terrific crime movie that's both quirky and gritty.
Rob Thomas
A cunningly hip crime caper that packs a decent amount of swagger May 24, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
A cunningly hip crime caper that packs a decent amount of swagger
Frank Ochieng
A solid but unmemorable crime thriller. Feb 27, 2003 | Rating: 3/5
A solid but unmemorable crime thriller.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Disarming black comedy-drama stands out among others in the pack because its offbeat plot turns make it hard for the viewer to match a rhythm to it Jan 1, 2000
Disarming black comedy-drama stands out among others in the pack because its offbeat plot turns make it hard for the viewer to match a rhythm to it
Shane Burridge
An early Alec Baldwin starring role, and one of his best, this is a very good drama with some elements of a black comedy. Worth seeing for Baldwin's performance at the very least.
Super Reviewer
Early Baldwin which gets an initial knock from me. Quite frankly, I think George Armitage is trying to be Demme and produces something kind of hokey.
It's better after a second viewing, but I wished I had liked this a lot more, after Edgar Wright recommended it. Alec Baldwin gives a great performance as a halfcocked psychopath whose love of life is so strong, mixed up and unscrupulous, he can't help but enjoy breaking fingers, busting jaws, playing cops-and-robbers, shooting people on a gut feeling and answering questions about his preferred vegetables with a pause to think out the words "I don't want to talk about that at this time." The rhythm and humanity of the rest of the movie is not good enough to swing around Baldwin's homicidal urges and primitive faith in carpe diem. Demme produced this after directing Something Wild, where Ray Liotta's character was a lot like Alec Baldwin's here, although less wild-eyed and tilting at windfalls. But the earlier movie wasn't so relativistic about whether squares, suckers and slobs were living life more fully than a violent hoodlum, and about whether violence is just the law of nature that we've grown too soft and decadent to understand.
Fine and enjoyable thriller and its mixture of satire, violence and social comment is fresh and invigorating, providing the perfect antidote to Miami Vice.
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