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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
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Like most teenage boys in the 80s, I went through a Miami Vice phase. Unlike most teenage boys, I came by this rather late — it wasn’t until the clothes turned a bit darker and the white Ferrari Testarossa came into the series that I really gained interest.
I was particularly interested when I learned that a friend was working on the crew for the just released film, directed by Michael Mann
Tonight, I finally went to see it.
It’s my general opinion that Michael Mann hasn’t made a bad film yet. Heat was the first DVD I purchased, and is a particularly sharp film. Collateral, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider and Ali are all excellent examples of the body of work involve here.
Miami Vice cotinues Mann’s excellent record of extremely stylish, well lensed movies. Colin Farrel makes a fairly good Sonny Crocket, and Jamie Foxx a good — albeit somewhat brooding — Rico Tubbs.
The film feels…confused a bit. With a plot that seems to be designed more to show off locations than to make sense, it lacks the coherence of earlier work. While Heat is one of the best cops and robbers films ever, Miami Vice feels extremely ordinary from a story perspective.
Worth seeing on the big screen for the cinematography (a particularly beautiful panning shot from a helicopter of Crocket crossing the waters between Miami and Havana took my breath away) but perhaps faiing to live up to — admittedly high — expections.
Posted by skooter at 10:55 PM
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