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.
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08/06/06
Miami Vice (2006)
48 %
Reviews Counted: 182 Fresh: 87 Rotten:95 Average Rating: 5.6/10
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
Runtime: 2 hrs 26 mins
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 in the feature film version of Miami Vice. Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award® winner Jamie... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Justin Theroux
Director: Michael Mann
Screenwriter: Anthony Yerkovich, Michael Mann
Producer: Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
Composer: John Murphy
Screenwriter: Anthony Yerkovich, Michael Mann
Producer: Michael Mann, Pieter Jan Brugge
Composer: John Murphy
Reviews
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.
08/05/06
Top Critic
A highly-influential TV show winds up as a decent but flawed movie and the hunt for a truly great 2006 summer blockbuster continues.
08/04/06
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.
08/04/06
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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.
08/03/06
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.
08/01/06
Top Critic
[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them.
04/26/08
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.
08/26/07
Michael Mann seems to have set out to extricate everything that made the show fun and original.
08/13/07
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.
03/30/07
Note for Michael Mann fans: A thrilling new director's edition on DVD has 20 minutes of new footage.
11/22/06
This somber action picture bravely defies expectations and gives us something wholly new.
10/07/06
Un policial moderadamente efectivo y bien realizado, alejado por completo de la estética de la serie televisiva original. Intrascendente.
09/19/06
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