When you think back to what Michael Mann has done before -- Heat, Collateral, and The Last of the Mohicans -- its not a stretch to expect good things in Miami Vice. Well, he certainly does deliver.
Mann is the unofficial king of night shooting and shootouts -- and when you put them together it makes for a great movie-based-on-a-tv-show. Fast cars, faster boats, guns, drugs, money, and a cool soundtrack make for another Michael Mann classic.
Colin Farrell & Jamie Foxx play Crocket & Tubbs, although in the film they go by their first names, Sonny & Rico instead. The only real homage to the original show is the closing credit music -- a cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight". Beyond that and the t-shirt under suit fashion sense, there's little else that connects the movie to the 80's.
Michael Mann fans won't be at all disappointed.
Mann is the unofficial king of night shooting and shootouts -- and when you put them together it makes for a great movie-based-on-a-tv-show. Fast cars, faster boats, guns, drugs, money, and a cool soundtrack make for another Michael Mann classic.
Colin Farrell & Jamie Foxx play Crocket & Tubbs, although in the film they go by their first names, Sonny & Rico instead. The only real homage to the original show is the closing credit music -- a cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight". Beyond that and the t-shirt under suit fashion sense, there's little else that connects the movie to the 80's.
Michael Mann fans won't be at all disappointed.