Wonderful character development!

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Expected more

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

"Miami Vice" was a successful television series created by Anthony Yerkovich about two undercover detectives working against drug trafficking mafias based in that southeastern US city where they controlled the cocaine that was consumed in the country , while distributing it to various parts of the world. The series was broadcast between 1984 and 1989 in the US, and was also broadcasted in numerous countries of America and Europe, where it always obtained a high rating of tuning. Its executive producer, Michael Mann, who later became a brilliant and astounding filmmaker, with titles such as "The Last Mohican," "Heat" and "Collateral," was in charge of directing the film version of this popular series, which the characters of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - now played by Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx respectively - have to deal with the fearsome and sophisticated organization that has murdered two federal police and has massacred a whole family.Infiltrating the organization that commands a Latin American capo (identified as Colombian, but with a Cuban accent), the two detectives will see it complicated to finish with the dark smugglers, while Sonny is having a good time with Isabella, the finance chief at the one that has managed to seduce.If I had been able to dispense with the always pleasant and very sober presence of Gong Li - the muse of the excellent Chinese director Zhang Yimou, and replaces the role of Saundra Santiago - I think "Miami Vice" would have ended for me shortly before the first hour. The story became meager, monotonous, full of common elements...and the presence of Michael Mann, can hardly be guessed in the scene of action of the port where you can notice an efficient composition, and in that meeting where the romance uncovers its veil and takes the course that corresponds to it.What turned the real art of "Heat" and "Collateral" into the realm of the seventh art was Mann's ability to sculpt characters who came to life on the scene with their contradictions, their deep emotions, and their ability to connect with them indissolubly. In those films, there was a powerful dramatic breath, art and poetry went through any gaps, and a load of magnificent feelings made us proud of being human.But none of this is possible to find in "Miami Vice", and the only thing I can rescue at the story level is that it leaves well re- created the terrible, sad atmosphere in which so many people move. An absolutely undesirable lifestyle.

I was seriously disappointed in this movie given the talent lineup! The interaction / conversations between the characters really lacked luster. It seemed like no one memorized their lines and conversations were painfully boring. Very limited action, you would expect that Miami Vice would encounter more! I love a good action flick but I had to struggle to keep myself awake for this one. Michael Mann has such talent but this one really didn't meet up to the standard that he's more than capable of. I went in with certain expectations but was very very disappointed, being an avid flick watcher. I believe the best trick is for people to not have any expectations, that way you're not let down.

Before he became a well-known director to such classic film as "The Last of the Mohicans", "Heat" and "The Insider", director Michael Mann's very earliest filmography was when he served as executive producer of one of the best crime-dramas the the 1980's had in store at the time, the always iconic "Miami Vice". It was a classic series that handled the style and substance quite proportionately. In 2006, Mann has returned to his early roots in a movie adaptation to the classic 1980's series self-evaluating what he's been taught to him over the past few years since the series cancelled in 1990. After watching the movie, there are a few things that didn't sit with me very well and one of the many gripes I had with this adaptation to the series was that at two hours and fifteen minutes, it goes on for much too long. If that's bad enough, it's not only too long, it is also quite hard to decipher what the plot is and at times it becomes very confusing at times. Mann is easily at fault here because he also handled the script as well. When scenes tend to look conventional, it's handled with a complete lack of a formal standpoint. He knows exactly which scenes needs more focus and which ones need to move forward. His scripts usually go beyond sublime, but it reflects just how it reflects towards its audience. And from Mann the performances are what keeps us intrigued. In the case of this movie, the principal characters (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) are not the once that provide the best characters in the film who replace Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as Detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Rico Tubbs who are up to their dangerous anti-drug initiatives. While Foxx gives his all even though his demands are more subtle than crime-fighting partner Farrell. Farrell can't seem to measure up to the more suave performance Johnson portrayed when played Sonny Crockett in the series. Where's Jeff Bridges when you needed him?The supporting players are the once that dominate in their limited screen time and they're the ones who everyone wants to see more of. Barry Shabaka Henley as Sonny and Rico's superior Lt. Castillo (originally played by Edward James Olmos) looks very imposing and fearful, a man you simply don't want to anger with, with the exception of his sensitive eyes. Meanwhile, Luis Tosar who plays Montoya is the polar opposite to Castillo. He is a kingpin who dresses stylistically with a polite manner and a beard, but once again the eyes tell a different story as he's anything but a harmless man on the wrong side of the law. We can see something disturbing about him with those cold piercing eyes. His words from mouth about giving best regards to your family is sign that danger is lurking around. Mann really brings a very interesting perspective to the Montoya character, the kingpin our heroes want to defeat.In most movies,the most evil characters are cunning and colourful. In this movie, it's too laid-back and not very exhilarating. Montoya and his sultry girlfriend Isabella ((Gong Li) are in bed together, with his laptop going over their strategy of who to kill and the time it will be done. The feeling of discomfort comes into effect in Montoya's circle as people were coming into the organization with an over-the-top level of perversity. Montoya's loyal stooge Yero (John Ortiz) was a real piece of work as a grimacing,threatening,jokingly convincing evil-doer. The most noteworthy casting comes from Gong Li. Sure her English is not her best quality and that's understanding, but how she says her lines will make you break into a cold sweat. Sure she's running a South American drug cartel making her an outlaw, but her seductive manipulation towards Sonny is enough to make glasses fog up from the heat. Sure the there have been several chilling female antagonists, but Gong succeeds in keeping it powerful and only her vulnerability is shown through brief flashes. You are crazy if you mess with her mind.The story starts off as a sting operation situated at a nightclub and then it turns into an undercover job going horribly bad. An informant kills himself by getting run over by a truck and how does Mann handle the situation? While refraining from using shaky camera work or thrilling us with gore and carnage, he lets the truck move on with a trail of blood paving the lanes. Then we see baddies killing off people with their ammo towards people in their cars. By filming the scene in the car adds a more personal touch to the film. The cinematography goes way beyond picturesque. When the motorboat coming in from Havana is likely to put you in a romantic view, even for only ten seconds. There's a lot of disparate entities that's happening in "Miami Vice". The scenes involving Sonny and Isabella are just steamy fillers. There's a crime story happening, but it doesn't have much going for it and by the last minutes of the film, it doesn't hold together very well. Film critics have been overfed with a cornucopia of junk. But to see a person who knows the ins-and-outs of a film like this one went way overboard in self-praising himself for it. What I have to say is that it is an average film with some good and bad things about it.

Michael Mann's Miami VICE is an updating of the popular 1980s TV Show, casting Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as a pair of undercover cops seeking to bring down drug dealers in sun-drenched Floridian locations. The movie even throws in a little sightseeing in Cuba for good measure. Unfortunately, a distinctly average, seen-it-all-before storyline means that this was never going to be anything other than a middling thriller.Mann works hard as director, shooting his film in a colourful, fashionable way (think MANHUNTER) and adding some decent music to the soundtrack. A lot of the film was shot on hand held cameras, which I like; it goes to show that hand held footage need not solely exist in 'found footage' movies, and there's not a shaky-cam in sight, either.Cast-wise, this is a mixed bag. Farrell is acceptable as the smouldering hero, but Foxx is miscast and seems bored with his part. The good news is that he's off-screen for about half the running time. Gong Li is very good as the femme fatale, even if she did learn her lines phonetically, and there are some good if minor performances from Tom Towles (HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER) as a white supremacist, the reliable Ciaran Hinds, and Luis Tosar (SLEEP TIGHT) as a drug baron.