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Miami Vice

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Drama | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Michael Mann
Anthony Yerkovich (TV series)
Directed by: Michael Mann
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 28, 2006
DVD: December 5, 2006
Running Time: 146 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for strong violence, language and some sexual content
Starring Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li, Luis Tosar, Naomie Harris, John Ortiz, Ilan Krigsfeld, and Chris Astoyan
The cocaine cowboys of the 80's are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice. (Universal Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
It sheds the series' famous and influential pastel look and plunges its cast of villains and warriors into the 21st century.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Scott Foundas
Mann has done something transformative with Farrell: The Irish actor has never had this much charisma and natural authority in a role, and as he navigates that gray area between Crockett's real identity and his fabricated one, revealing subtle fissures in the character's cocksure facade, he's fascinating to watch.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
If you're looking for a crime story that sizzles with action, sex and the visceral jolt of life on the edge, Miami Vice is the one.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Miami Vice isn't an action flick but a neo-noir: tough, quiet, moody and hard.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Sensual and scary, the movie is so visually textured you feel as though you're brushing against the screen.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Right away in Miami Vice you know you're waist-deep in movieland.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
While it never approaches the richness and gravity of a great Mann film like "Heat," Miami Vice blurs the thin blue line to similar effect, and he features a couple of bravura setpieces, including a tense raid on an enemy hideout and a shootout with chaotic, you-are-there immediacy. If only all summer movies were this majestically slight.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Mixing pop savvy with startling formal ambition, Mr. Mann transforms what is essentially a long, fairly predictable cop-show episode into a dazzling (and sometimes daft) Wagnerian spectacle.
Read Full Review >Empire Simon Braund
Bearing all the Mann hallmarks, this is visually enthralling, relentlessly stylish crime drama. A little too languorous for its own good at times, but still vastly superior entertainment.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
It's the set pieces that mark the film as something special: swirling crowds at a casino in the opening sequence, Trudy's ordeal by trailer trash, a climactic firefight that puts lightning in the shade. Very impure, and very impressive.
Slate Dana Stevens
The world according to Mann is loud, dangerous, morally ambiguous, and more than a little greasy, but during the hours you spend there, there's nowhere you'd rather be.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The movie is seriously sexy and seriously entertaining.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
This is more of a thinking man's action flick -- a small, intense film made on a giant canvas that finds Mann experimenting with and pushing at the boundaries of mainstream filmmaking.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
The two best words to describe the 2006 motion picture Miami Vice are "stylish" and "intense."
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
Read Full Review >Variety Brian Lowry
Unlike most TV-to-movie transitions, Mann returns to his roots and delivers what amounts to a slightly overblown episode, brimming with style and characteristically short on substance.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Mann turns Miami Vice into an exploration of tone and mood, and he makes that enough.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Without the ability to move off the mythic, without the emotional texture that "Heat" created, it is a film easier to admire than to get passionately involved with.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
As it turns out, the movie is still very much about two well-dressed undercover cops who strike sexy poses, express plenty of attitude and drive expensive cars and fast boats as pop music plays on the soundtrack and palm trees sway gently in the tropical night.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's got some great action sequences and is peppered with genuinely dazzling images. It's also subtly infused with Mann's favored themes of men-at-work and the high price of loyalty to duty. But it hasn't got sufficient meat to warrant its draggy length.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A combination of muddy sound mix and players with heavy accents (particularly Chinese superstar Gong, who seems to have learned her lines phonetically) renders large swaths of dialogue incomprehensible, but the details of what's being said and done don't really matter.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
It's refreshing to hear some old-fashioned percussive tension in service of a director who knows what he's doing. Even when the screenwriter is losing his way.
Read Full Review >Premiere Ethan Alter
Just when the plot should start coming together, the pacing goes slack and the narrative gets bogged down in routine cop-movie clichés.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Miami Vice is the last of the predicted summer blockbusters, and it delivers a reasonable amount of popcorn excitement. But if nostalgia for the TV show is the source of your interest, expect some disappointment.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Dark, detailed and only really gets going when the gunplay starts.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
It's about guns and sex and fast boats, and, baffling as it is at times, it's still the kind of brutal fantasy that many of us relish a great deal more than yet another aerated digital dream.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A darker, grittier creature that, while benefiting considerably from Dion Beebe's HD cinematography, is a frustratingly inert affair -- a long and talky excursion that fails to engage the viewer from the outset.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
It's filled with Mann's signature macho verisimilitude, but essentially it's the stuff of what, in saner fiscal times, would have been a B movie. Miami Vice delivers the thrills, atmosphere and romance it promises, but it doesn't resonate like major Mann.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Miami Vice, the movie, is an atmospheric muddle, as gorgeous and unintelligible as raven-haired stunner Gong Li.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Apart from a few sleek shots involving boats or helicopters, the action eventually devolves into a standard war-movie shootout.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Farrell appears to be a rarity in undercover culture, a vice cop who goes on the lowdown as an Irish beatnik. Oh, that's a good disguise for South Beach. As for Foxx, he's still channeling Ray Charles through squinty eyes and a kind of shaky head. They have zero chemistry.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
Far from a disaster, but doesn't rank with Mann's best work.
Read Full Review >USA Today Scott Bowles
All this movie has in common with its ancestor are speedboats, shotguns and drug-dealing Colombians.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
If you really must see Miami Vice (and you mustn't), buy a ticket to something better, then slip into "Vice" at the 95-minute mark and watch the last third of the movie. No one involved will profit by your curiosity, and you won't miss a thing of importance.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Perhaps vice isn't what it used to be, or maybe Crockett and Tubbs just aren't all that interesting when removed from their appropriate time slot, but this may well be the dreariest and most monochromatic time you'll have at the movies all summer.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.4 (out of 10) based on 226 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
John F. gave it a0:
This is one of the most ass movies ive ever seen. I left 45 minutes into the movie after falling asleep 15 minutes into it. The plot is so confusing and bad, I havent seen anything this bad since The Hulk. Dont watch this movie ever
Adam L. gave it an8:
This movie is great if you have come looking for a movie that is BASED ON the miami drug trade, where cops actually behave as cops are meant to then you have walked into the right movie. if you are looking to see cops shooting stuff find a different movie becuase you will just come out dissapointed. The only problem i had with this movie is that the characters mumble a lot which can make it difficult to follow - watch with subtitles.
Brian M gave it a4:
This film is just a boring piece of crap. If you're going to make a cop movie, then make a good cop movie. This film was completely uninvolving and boring with no character development. It's just a crappy movie with Colin Farrel and Jamie Foxx holding guns and trying to look cool.
Joe D. gave it a2:
It was a boring piece of dump. plain and simple. i felt completely unconnected to the characters at all. I could care less if the goods guys came out on top or not because they had no personality what so ever.
Slingblade gave it a3:
Agree with all critics from TV Guide (63) down. Totally agree with Jon B. I wanted to hear "In the Air Tonite" - had to wait 146 minutes for a cheezy cover. Colin is a weanie, DJ was the real man. I'm just glad Farrell wasn't allowed to smoke cigs in the movie. Perhaps he suffered as much as us viewers not getting his fix. Boo-ring. Oh yeah, I kept wanting to turn the closed captioning on because the dialog is flubberish.
Jeff M. gave it a7:
Seemed more like a film version of Mann's "Robbery Homicide Division" than the TV show of the title. Actually, this would have made a good 2 hour pilot for a series. As it is, it's stylish and smart, but people paying to see this film seemed to be expecting an action movie, which it mostly is not.
Dan S. gave it a6:
I recall enjoying the television episodes of "Miami Vice"...for example, when the Chief of Detectives would mutter remarks like " the rhythm of the streets must be restored". The ultra-cool pastel fashions modeled by our heroes and the fantasy powerboat were always fun; the plots were easy to follow and the dialogue was often quite witty. This very long retrospective film , however, fails to evoke that. The plot is muddled and unconvincing, while the shootouts are noisy and even tedious.. Yet, the cinematography was quite spectacular at times, especially in South America (the Iguasso Falls!!) and along the Havana waterfront. Crockett is not as stupid as he looks; at least he knows when to take a break from his chores to carouse with Gong Li. She's ALWAYS great to watch.
