In this story, we make a difference in the story of the involvement of drug and murder princes in South Florida. The case may take a turn for secret informants Sony Crockett and Ricardo Tapas, whose lives seem to be turning upside down. Their personal and professional lives seem to become dangerously intertwined.
Painterly scumble... dimly illuminated night settings. Miami Vice is Mann's usual triangulation of Nietzsche, linen-edge designers like Ozwald Boateng and distinguished painters of geometric abstraction, like the great Richard Diebenkorn.
Mann is the master of nighttime digital photography, and he fills the screen with stunning images and some intricately choreographed shoot-out scenes that I just loved.
Antagony & Ecstasy
July 01, 2009
Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing.
The movie isn't perfect, but it's good enough, and better than most. It should keep us occupied until the big screen version of The Apprentice comes along.
ComingSoon.net
April 08, 2011
Miami Vice isn't a particularly accurate translation of the show - and depending on your point of view that could be good or bad - but it is a stylish, if uninspired, crime thriller.
I enjoyed Mr. Mann's new Miami Vice from its first ravishing frame to the last, but I can't say that very much of it made sense -- but then, neither do the daily headlines.
