Miami Vice (2006)

Colin Farrell
Jaime Foxx
Gong Li
Naomie Harris

Directed by Michael Mann

Plot: Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one-especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

Review: Everyone that knows me, knows of my heterosexual man crush on Colin Farrell. Normally I will watch anything he does. Over the last few years it has diminished, due to the mostly boring films he has done. This film on the other hand I was really looking forward to. I wasn’t a fan of the Miami Vice TV series, but I am a fan of Michael Mann. I really loved Collateral, so was excited to see this film.

Colin Farrell and Jaime Foxx were really good in this movie. The cinematography was typical Mann style, very shaky and random, which worked well for the movie, giving it a very gritty serious feel. The story was nothing special, but still good. Unfortunately, the movie still fell short for me. There was a lot of build up to essentially nothing. Most of the movie is dialogue driven, which I am fine with, but was still hoping for a big action sequence at the end. Although, there was a shoot out at the end it was still very anti climactic. This wasn’t a bad movie, just could have been so much better. Not being a fan of the series, this may have been dead on with its vibe, but it still in many ways disappointed me.
 

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