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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: 15 [See Full Rating] for strong violence, language and some sexual content

Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:04-08-2006

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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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

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]
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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
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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
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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

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.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
08/01/06
Paul Arendt
Paul Arendt
BBC
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Cool to look at, but there's nothing to it.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment 1 Comment
07/29/06
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Mann has no peer today when it comes to painting after-hours dread

Full Review Source: CinePassion | comment Comment
08/30/09
Fernando F. Croce
Fernando F. Croce
CinePassion

Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment 1 Comment
07/01/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Gary Susman
Gary Susman
Boston Phoenix

Michael Mann ridiculously attempts to inflate an episode of his '80s TV show into a feature length ballad of undercover ennui, lust and bloody intimidation.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
04/22/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them.

Full Review Source: Stranger Song | comment Comment
04/26/08
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Stranger Song

No one, but no one does crime like Michael Mann.

Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com | comment Comment
02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
Brandon Fibbs
BrandonFibbs.com

The Foxx-Farrell pairing can best be summed up by the first real Crockett-Tubbs scene in the film: on the rooftop of a club, on the phone... having separate conversations. The two share the frame and the on-set air but nothing else.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
08/26/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Michael Mann seems to have set out to extricate everything that made the show fun and original.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
08/13/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

A pointless exercise.

Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | comment 1 Comment
07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

No chemistry, no cool, no compelling characters, no air of urgency. Just a very average crime caper which fails to entertain the viewer on a gut, cerebral or superficial level. Not exactly your father's Miami Vice.

Full Review Source: Heritage Konpa Magazine | comment 3 Comments
03/30/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
Heritage Konpa Magazine
 
 
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