Miami Vice is a hell of an achievement for Michael Mann and for everyone involved in its creation.
MIAMI VICE MOVIE MOVIE
Traditional movie dialogue masquerades as murky, sometimes inaudible or incomprehensible street talk. Even the camera work, normally smooth, steady and efficient in Mann's films, is uncharacteristically hand-held and often grainy. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are almost unrecognisable - they are totally in character as Crockett & Tubbs. Mann's film provides a fresh perspective on the police procedural, to such an extent that the finished work is almost an undercover operation in itself.
MIAMI VICE MOVIE SERIES
The series stars Don Johnson as James 'Sonny' Crockett and Philip Michael Thomas as Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs, two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami.The series ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984 to 1989. Miami Vice is the latest in a distinguished line of hard-boiled American crime thrillers, populated with gritty, tough-talking characters in richly convoluted plots. Miami Vice is an American crime drama television series created by Anthony Yerkovich and produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The show had a great influence on popular culture in the 80's, from beautiful women. Crockett and Tubbs are two undercover detectives working in the underworld of Miami. Michael Mann is absolutely one of the finest, most distinctive film-makers in America today, cinema's equivalent of Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson and WR Burnett. 7.5 (26,221) Miami Vice is a 1980's police drama starring Don Johnson as Sonny Crockett, and Phillip Michael Thomas as Rico Tubbs. With a film as stylistically kinetic as this, the faults in its substance (of which it has little) can be forgiven. They may have no emotional depth, and Mann may revel in their police procedural dialogue, playboy modes of transport and state-of-the-art weaponry, but it is all done in such a thrilling manner that the need to look for something deeper beneath the surface is rendered unnecessary. But none of this matters that the film drops the viewer straight into the action, from which it never relents, signals its intent to show us an intense episode in the lives of detectives Crockett and Tubbs. And yes, the dialogue and plot is hard to follow and the love interest between Colin Farrell and Gong Li goes beyond the boundary of dramatic licence. Yes, it is perhaps excessively masculine in its viewpoint.
Yes, this film is as shallow as its two lead characters.
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