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Good but not great
A literally very dark movie. Sometimes it's hard to see what's going on. You'll probably have a headache after watching it! It's pretty low-key in comparison with the T.V. series, but this film version is truer to Mann's original vision. Thankfully it's not a buddy-buddy cop caper movie and we don't witness the usual inane banter and wisecracking. However, if i have one criticism of this and most other Michael Mann movies it's that they have absolutely no humour in them. Heat could be regarded as an exception but that's down to Al Pacino's overacting rather than director's input! That said Miami Vice is pretty riveting stuff. Jamie Foxx is good enough in the role but doesn't have too much to do. However Colin Farrell is totally miscast. He's looks like an early twenty-something playing dress-up, and dress-up with a mullet and tache no less! (by his appearance i imagine he was intending to audition for a Metallica bio-pic but wandered into the wrong room) They should have got a more mature actor for this role. I mean we're supposed to believe that Foxx and Farrell have been together for years and trust each other implicity. It just doesn't work with Farrell in the roll. Also, he has zero chemistry with Gong-Li, but it's hard to blame Farrell for that as I couldn't understand a word she said in the whole movie. She should have had a translater. I surprised Farrell didn't say "pardon?" or "come again?" at least once to her. I don't dislike Farrell but he's extremely limited and I think he's more ideally suited to those slick, cocky roles that Cruise used to do in the '80s - Top Gun, Color of Money, Days of Thunder - where action sequences would distract from his limitations. Excellent direction by Mann and good entertainment throughout but doubtful you're wife or girlfriend would watch it with you, unless she wants to see Colin Farrell dressed up as a redneck!

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Eveyone has missed the boat
Most of the reviewers of this movie have completely missed the point. If you go into it thinking you are going to see an over the top version of the show you watched growing up, you will be disappointed. If you take it for what it is, Michael Mann's updated vision of the show he created with no rules or censorship, you are in for a great ride. I found most reviews of this movie very irritating because they all compared it to the tv show. No one was willing to open up to something different. It is not the 80's anymore. The movie is set it present times. The Rolling Stone review nailed the point of the movie exactly (the only accurate review in my opinion). Mann's directing and use of HD cinematography are top notch and submerse you into a world of undercover narcotic cops. This isn't Bad Boys (even though I loved that film) and Michael Mann isn't Michael Bay. I agree with the other reviewer who stated that this film is not for the nascar group. There is so much going on that is does need multiple viewings to fully appreciate. If you pay attention and fully get the movie, you will agree that it is a awsome ride. The movie's climax alone was worth the price of admission.

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One film that's smarter than its audience
The bottom line on the film is that is a very smart, tightly paced, action-packed police thriller with beautiful cinematography and great performances underscored by a compulsive tension that builds from frame 1 until the end of the movie. <
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>The bottom line on the public is that because the film is so unconventional and densely plotted, it left many of our Nascar-lovin' brethren in the dust. Too bad. They're all lined up to take shots at a film which can only be described as "boring" by a viewer who simply couldn't follow the bread crumbs. <
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>When the film was released I read hundreds of posts by moviegoers who had no clue what was going on in the film. To be completely honest, it took me two viewings to really understand how certain plot points worked together. But the movie moves so quickly that even when the heroes remove their ski masks to show us, the audience, that they are the perpetrators of a drug heist, there were still many on the internet asking who was responsible for the drug heist. <
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>There is no excuse for that, other than simple viewers who were not paying attention. <
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>Again, this is a great film for people who will appreciate the clever, intelligent way director Michael Mann constructs the whole. This is not a great film for people looking for ticking alligators, goofy sidekicks, wacky informants and a Jan Hammer beat. <
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>This is a movie for grownups. The rest need not bother.