Eighties icons Crockett and Tubbs come to the big screen in this Michael Mann-directed adventure.
An overlong, frustratingly average, reworking of the classic 1980s cop show; Michael Mann"s 'Miami Vice' has its moments of glory but never quite kicks into gear, hence squandering the talents of its cool and charismatic stars. The plot, like its small screen counterpart, is pretty straightforward: Crocket and Tubbs go undercover to smash a drugs cartel, but Mann, though he tries, can"t quite recreate the intricate character arcs of modern classics like 'Heat' or 'Collateral', and his 'simple-story-complex-characters' paradigm (used to great effect by Scorcese in 'The Departed') seems to backfire early on.
On the plus side, Mann"s cinematography and decision to use HD-DV (as used to stunning effect in 'Collateral') gives 'Miami Vice' a unique, albeit at times, inappropriate look. The locations are pretty exotic, but a somewhat misjudged, full blown love affair between Crocket and sultry Chinese-Cuban drugs baroness Gong Li, stops just short of being ridiculous: their numerous encounters in speedboats, ballrooms, bars, showers and the back of a limousine are quite unnecessary, and should"ve been edited for pace reasons. The film does feature one memorable action scene where a Vice squad woman takes out one of the neo-Nazis in a sudden and spectacular manner. Overall, this is an intermittently engaging thriller that could"ve been as good as 'Heat', perhaps Michael Mann"s unrated director"s cut DVD will give this film a new lease of life; so until then, my opinion of 'Miami Vice', in the words Phil Collins, is in the air tonight...uh huh...oh yeah.
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Brooding big-screen adaptation of the classic 1980s television crime drama from director Michael Mann. Undercover Miami-Dade police detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Rico Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) are summoned to help out on an FBI undercover operation that has gone disastrously wrong. Infiltrating a dangerous world of international drug dealers, somehow linked to a home-grown Neo Nazi group, Crockett and Tubbs pose as experienced criminals able to transport goods anywhere in the world. But as they dig deeper into the criminal underworld, Tubbs worries that the mission will be compromised as Crockett finds himself falling for drug dealer Jesus Montoya's (Luis Tosar) girlfriend, Isabella (Gong Li). When the two cops are sold out by a rival dealer in the operation, Crockett and Tubbs break cover and lead their team to a climactic, brutal show-down.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. No Rules. After a deadly security breach in the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF), the FBI ask for help from the Miami authorities who are not part of the compromised group. This assignment goes to Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett (Farrell) and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs (Foxx). Going undercover as offshore boat racers and outlaw smugglers Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper, they take on the narcotrafficking network of the mysterious Archangel de Jesus Montoya-Londono and his Cuban Chinese banker Isabella (Gong Li) where the intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge. Identity and fabrication become blurred, cop and player become one... Writer/director Michael Mann returns to the iconic 1980s series which he co-created. While the white Ferrari Testarossa, Jan Hammer synthesizer music and fashion excess may have been left behind with original duo Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, Colin Farrell and Mann regular Jamie Foxx are more than a match in the new bigger, louder and just as thrilling big screen outing for Crockett and Tubbs! Actors Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Going Li, Naomie Harris, John Ortiz, Ciaran Hinds, Justin Theroux, Barry Shabaka Henley, Luis Tosar, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Domenick Lombardozzi, Eddie Marsan, Isaach De Bankolé, John Hawkes & Tom Towles Director Michael Mann Certificate 15 years and over Year 2006 Screen Widescreen 2.40:1 Languages English - DTS HD Master Audio (5.1) Additional Languages French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese Subtitles English For The Hearing Impaired ; French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese ; Korean ; Swedish ; Danish ; Finnish ; Dutch ; Norwegian ; Portugese ; Mandarin Duration 2 hours and 12 minutes (approx)
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