Miami Vice.

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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Just got home from seeing Miami Vice, I was a big fan of the series in the 80's and liked this newer version. It is much more gritty and darker than the series, in the entire film I only felt an urge to smile or laugh once. Hardcore fans will recognize some of the plot from the series episode "Smugglers Blues", but taken to a darker more violent level.

I'm not a Colin Farrell fan, but he does good as Sonny Crockett, but Jamie Foxx is the scene stealer here.

Most of the familiar names form the series are here, Switek, Zito, Trudy and Gina, and I like the fact that Switek and Zito are not the comic relief they were in the series.

Some nice knife work by Jamie Foxx in one scene!

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: For this one.
 
thanks i've been trying to decide if it's worth seeing i guess i'll give it a try. later, ahgar
 
Sounds like an excellent film to blow the last of my free tickets on.

Thanks for the review. I remember watching the tv series in the 80's as a pre-teen.
 
Thanks, now I'm REALLY looking forward to watching it! My main reason for looking forward to this one is because of Michael Mann, the director.
 
I was also a big fan of the series.

While I agree that Farrell did a good job as Crockett, I was generally disappointed with the film. It wasn't much more than an "episode" when it certainly should have been. If not for the investment I already had in the characters, "knowing" them so to speak, I wouldn't have found much reason to care about them here.

The writing was weak, even with willing suspension of disbelief, there were too many implausibilities.

And Mann's direction was something I was really looking forward to. Thumbs down there as well. His work in "Collateral" was far more visually arresting. I saw two, count 'em two, scenes where I said, "That's what I wanted to see." I'd bet Last Confederate could guess which two. -But two scenes in two hours?

Even the soundtrack, which had its moments, was a let down.

Maybe the franchise was just too much to live up to, but I felt like he had a heck of a frame to build on and this just didn't cut it. :(
 
I liked the movie, and i found that Farrell did a better job then i thought. but the thing that bugged me the must was, at the big shoot out at the end. Why did the police snipers only bring one bullet each, they could have enter that fire fight in seconds.
 
tortoise said:
I saw two, count 'em two, scenes where I said, "That's what I wanted to see." I'd bet Last Confederate could guess which two. -But two scenes in two hours?
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Gina's shot inside the trailer?

and

Tubb's shot inside the trailer?

Am I right?

And your right, Collateral was better!
 
:D :D :D

No, no, no. I was trying to give a serious review... ;)

Actually, it was: the speeding-Ferrari shot with the blue exhaust flames, and the scene where they moved from the speed boats to the police cars under the blue-lit bridge.

Those were quintessential "Miami Vice" to me. That's what I wanted; eye-catching visuals, fast-paced, violent, sex-laden art. We got the violence, a bit of T&A (but that comes cheap these days) I wanted the look.

Now, Crockett's love interest... Grrrrrrrrrrrr! :cool:
 
tortoise said:
Those were quintessential "Miami Vice" to me.
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LOL...your right, I mentioned this earlier, but I'll ask you as a fan of the original also, what did you think of the way they did Zito and Switek in the movie?

I really liked that they were decent competent cops instead of the bumbling way they were in the series.

I also liked that they moved Gina and Trudy from the "always on hooker detail" roles also.
 
I agree on Switek and Zito, although...


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What they did to Stan (tactically) at the end was one of the things I found over the line of what I'm willing to suspend disbelief for.
And letting Gina talk tough/shoot to show that the girls are tough too... Yeah, okay, I get it, ya' know... I'm a little tired of that in movies lately.
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Beyond that Farrell "smolders" admirably, not quite Don Johnson, but not bad. I though Foxx was a bit soft as Tubbs, very cool, just not as mentally tough/murdered-brother-ragged edge vibe.
 
tortoise said:
And letting Gina talk tough/shoot
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Best-Buy had Season 1 and 2 on sale for "buy one get one free" last week, so I am currently watching them for the first time in years, that whole trailer scene was taken from "Smuggler's Blues", but that particular "shot" was lifted from an episode called "Glades", in it, it's Crockett that makes the shot, but even the "You won't flinch" line is nearly the same.

Suspend belief that any cop could shoot someone every week and not be canned or jailed, and this show was pretty cool.
 
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