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Havana, Louisianna - 2/9/2006 4:59:18 PM   
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However excessive the product placemente might appear, the real comercial insight of the movie lies on the multi-cultural cast, which matches the movie´s filming sites. The alusion to latino-american and asian cultures is the bedrock of the wannabe blockbusters recent motion pictures. The attempt to please the world-wide audience depicting eastern leads or foreign locations appears to be the real conerstone of the box office's income-gathering strategy. And they are getting real good on it!! Overall, it would be impossible to convey Miami's reality obliviating the latin presence and, obviously, it would be a commercial flaw to waste such a fine-looking actress as Gong Li to catch the attention of the asian espectators.
Saying something about the movie generally, it will provide the viewers some resentless moments of entertainment, but it can be expected much of a soon-to-be-in-rehab Colin Farrel, which performance is diminished by the plot´s latent-eager to throw watchers into the screen.
Having gone through it with low expectations, one can be surprised by the liveness of the shoot-outs and crudeness of many direct scenes, which may recall footages of journalistic warfare couverage or even your favourite Discovery channel crime scene invetigation show.
The nocturnal enviroment boosts the plot and it´s a well-developed resource used by Mann since "Colateral". If you are hoping for a Lethal Weapon 5, crowded with cop gags and funny lines, MV won´t thrill you all. The cop drama seriousness takes over the entire production, leaving no room for toilet bombs nor sidekick comedy stars. Man, this is Mann!!

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A very entertaining Michael Mann film - 6/9/2006 12:53:03 AM   
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You might think Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx aren't the greatest choice for Crockett and Tubbs but when you see them on the screen, they're not that bad as you think. The action is spectacular and it is just purely entertaining. Can be flawed at places but Michael Mann makes up with the cop thrills and action he's known for his masterpiece Heat.

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A very entertaining Michael Mann film - 6/9/2006 12:53:44 AM   
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You might think Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx aren't the greatest choice for Crockett and Tubbs but when you see them on the screen, they're not that bad as you think. The action is spectacular and it is just purely entertaining. Can be flawed at places but Michael Mann makes up with the cop thrills and action he's known for his masterpiece Heat.

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RE: A very entertaining Michael Mann film - 22/9/2006 4:33:30 AM   
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 I watched this tonight and I have to say I was a little disappointed with it. I was expecting a lot more from a Mann film and although he delivered at the end with that fantastic shootout I had to sit through nearly two hours of what I can only describe as 'drivel'. Why so many love scenes? There is no need and don't even get me started on the begining. I was as confused as hell, I honestly though half the film was missing or something, no start credits and straight into it. It was hard to find your bearings for about 10 minutes after that.

2/5 from me I'm afraid!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:03 PM   
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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:12 PM   
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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:20 PM   
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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:30 PM   
cadz

 

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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:39 PM   
cadz

 

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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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really liked it - 22/9/2006 3:37:48 PM   
cadz

 

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 one of the best shot movies ive seen in beezlebub knows how long..and pretty compelling with it.blown away by the action scenes!

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2nd wosrt of 2006 - 30/9/2006 4:27:09 PM   
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2nd wosrt of 2006 - 30/9/2006 4:27:18 PM   
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- 30/9/2006 8:08:56 PM   
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- 30/9/2006 8:10:30 PM   
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 Intense & beautifully shot...yep it may have dragged a bit in the middle - I didn't expect Gong Li to get as much screen time as she did - but it really gave the atmosphere of what these people have to go through. A grown-up thriller

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- 1/10/2006 4:29:03 PM   
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Great film,ans so cool-Igot to grow mw a mullet and get me one of them Michael Mann suits.Everyone looks cool in a Michael Mann flick,and the cinematography is beautiful.Still flawed though,and it wouldn't hurt to be a bit longer actually(even though It's a slow paced movie),but Mann's films get better the more times you see it,and more time passes.The plot is very simple and straightrough,and the relation beteween the two lead actors is presented more as a given than most movies that they show why they are best friends.Actually this movie reminded me a lot of The French Connection.Great execution,simple plot.
You either love it for what it is or hate it for what it wasn't.
4+

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SHIT - 18/11/2006 8:32:05 PM   
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When i watched the trailer for this i was looking foward to seeing it. However when i watched it i wanted my money back. Michael Mann deserves to be shot for this should be cool crap. Watch Collateral or Heat rather than this.

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average - 22/11/2006 8:01:05 AM   
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Not one of Mann's best, two vicious action scenes, but found the love interest boring and unrealistic, beautifully shot as all mann's films, it is one I will have to watch again.

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Miami Vice - disappointing! - 24/11/2006 11:58:57 AM   
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I was very annoyed after watching Mann's dreadful attempt at this. I thought the way it was filmed, was like the tv series COPS, very grainy. The story line was flakey and what was with that love story - please, very false. A poor attempt at making a great 80's tv show look good in the noughties. I'm ashamed to even say I've watched it!

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- 25/11/2006 1:00:03 AM   
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 Every scene in this flim is a work of art, the cinematography is flawless. It's truely breathtaking to see, perfection beyond belief. Michael Mann has a gift, and he knows it too. The night scenes as well, NO ONE does night quite like Michael Mann, it's like a whole new world, a fantasy, almost dreamlike setting. The colouring is awesome, i've only ever seen colouring like it in this guys movies. The acting is excellent from everyone, the story is great (apart from a daft love interest from Jamie Foxx) and there's the trademark Mann shootout which is superb, but there's something wrong with this film and it's difficult to see what. It just doesn't work, something is missing. It could be the fact that the scenary is so stunning (some beautful shots from the air) that you miss the plot slightly, it could be the sound (i had to put on subtitles because the talk is very quiet and muffled), or it could just be that every scene is very quickly followed by another that just moves on a bit too much from the previous scene. Whatever it is, what could have been yet another classic Michael Mann film, is unfortunately a bit of a waste. It's superb to look at, but the film just doesn't unfold in a flowing kind of way, so it ends up being a bit of a mess, and you lose interest in the characters very quickly. It's a shame because everything else about this film is way ahead of any other director out there at the moment.

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- 28/11/2006 10:31:19 AM   
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Michael mann shot this film as a very gritty piece of work, the story was confusing at times, but the gun fight made up for it a tiny bit

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- 28/11/2006 10:31:28 AM   
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Michael mann shot this film as a very gritty piece of work, the story was confusing at times, but the gun fight made up for it a tiny bit

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- 28/11/2006 10:31:34 AM   
umer_ejaz

 

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Michael mann shot this film as a very gritty piece of work, the story was confusing at times, but the gun fight made up for it a tiny bit

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Cold - 12/12/2006 8:34:09 PM   
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Nicely shot (of course) but it lacks the urgency of Heat and the interplay of Collateral. This feels like a step back to the sterility and procedure of Manhunter (a classic at the time but you couldn't get away with it now.)

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subtle mates - 13/12/2006 12:17:24 PM   
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cracking film , i'm with it 100% and will never doubt it!. note to empire reviewer ,she was not his wife.

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Micheal is the mann! - 15/12/2006 3:38:23 PM   
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 Finaly watched Maimi Vice on DVD and it was ACE! all the critic's of this movie need there eye's tested,cause it was'nt the movie i was watching.It was well paced with the usual MANN trade marks throughout,and Farrel and Fox where excellent,and the final gunfight was very close to HEAT,but just not as nerve shearding,So 4/5

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RE: Micheal is the mann! - 15/12/2006 8:44:48 PM   
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I think the penultimate showdown almost felt like watching one of those poorly shot police home videos. I know Micheal Mann was going for gritty authenticity, either way it looked and felt shit.

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Oh Dear - 22/12/2006 8:50:17 AM   
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When the film was first announced a couple of years back it split the fanboy community down the middle. Some were overjoyed that finally Vice would be given it's big screen outing. Others felt it would destroy the shows legacy by doing so.

I had no doubts. After all the man(n) who knew the show more than anyone else alive was writing it and was behind the camera. Surely this would be the best update of an old TV show since the first Mission Impossible movie right?....

...Um wrong,

What Mann has delivered is a film which doesn't work. I can appreciate he's trying to do something new with the genre (after all the TV show was a groundbreaker back in it's day so surely the movie must continue the legacy).

But wheras the TV show DID succeed in giving the genre the kick in the pants it needed at the time sadly the movie fails to do likewise.

The opening and closing half hours of the film are excellent stuff. You couldn't ask for better. Sadly the considerably sized middle (more than 60 minutes of it) is ALL TALK and very boring talk at that. Nothing happens that merits any real interest on the part of the viewer (and the sex scene between Tubbs and Trudy is laughably bad).

So, even if your not a Vice Fan. What you're getting is a very slow....very dull for the most part...overly talky cop thriller which doesn't warrant the considerable ammount of time it requires of you.

If you ARE a fan however it gets worse. There are nods here and there to the atmosphere and style of the original show. And to be fair the cast does a superb job in reprising the characters. With Foxx and Farrell deserving a special nod for suprisingly making a convincing double act on par with Johnson and Thomas as Crockett and Tubbs (despite hardly saying a word to each other). But this doesn't mean that fans will like forgive the films already exsisting faults. And to add insult to injury Mann has merely re-made Season One's "Smugglers Blues" episode And thrown in another few already exsisting smaller story threads to drag what was a 45 minute episode out to over two hours long. there is nothing new here for fans of the show. And it's executed with far less effect than it's source material.

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Brutal!!! - 11/1/2007 6:40:46 PM   
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This is by far the biggest dissapointment and worst film I have ever seen in a cinema and everywhere I look it gets four stars which leads me to believe that ye were either paid off or watched the wrong film. Colin Farrel & Jamie Foxx are a joke, they remind me of Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey just standing there staring at each other because they're too thick to talk. The story (actually if you can figure it out be my guest and what Colin Farrel says also). How Michael Mann can go from such a brilliant and gripping film like collateral to this disaster is mind boggling but then again Tom Cruise carried that film. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!!

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Miami Vice - 8/2/2007 5:36:14 AM   
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It was immaculate to look at,good looking and sensual. There was a sheen to the night scenes with a hint of predatory exoticism.Yet the dialogue was as technical as that of the first men on the moon. To do undercover work these cops would have to perform a role. So it was actors acting like people who were performing a role. I couldn't see how they connected or would survive. Saying that the action scenes were immensely well crafted and had a crackle and a verve that almost left me satisfied as well as the scenes in the open air and on the powerboat.

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Miami Vice - 5/3/2007 10:22:14 AM   
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Style over substance. As so often with Mann, he sacrifices story telling for eye-popping visuals and in this instance it comes at a very heavy cost. Farrell and Li are virtually unintelligible, which makes following what little story and character development there is, almost impossible. Furthermore Farrell's accent is shockingly inconsistent. That said, it looks absolutely incredible, the colours and camera movements are superb, a real mark of authenticity. It's not bad, it's just not good.

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