Miami Vice (2006) - Colin Farrell; Jamie Foxx

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I was born the year the show started, so I don't know a whole lot about the show except for when Chandler and Ross wore the suits to a Thanksgiving dinner, :lol:.

Yawn.

At first, I confused Michael Mann for Michael Bay and thought "where'd all the pretty car crashes and loud explosions go?" And then somewhere in the credits, it showed Michael Mann as the director. While I haven't seen Collateral, how did the same guy who did Heat make something this... boring?
 
:lol: This has turned into a pretty interesting debate - we might think of starting a separate thread about it...
 
Jamie Foxx should've won Best Supporting Actor for "Collateral" and not Best Actor for "Ray" but that's another topic for another thread. :lol:

I still want to see this. Like I said, it's Colin. I'll see it no matter what.....but it's sad to hear that it's not that good. :(
 
That is not an indicator of a film being an action movie. Not when the bulk of the film concentrates more on the struggle between the two characters more than how many people are being killed, or how many car chases there are.

Heat is also not an action movie per se. There are action sequences in it, but the majority of the film is a character study in how both criminals and the police that persue them can get lost in their quests and ultimately, the only thing they have left when their families and friends are gone is the thrill of the chase, or the "Heat" when they go after each other.

Twister and Poseidon are action movies... Yet there is absolutely no gunfire whatsoever. Volcano and Dante's Peak are action movies yet there are no weapons or even voilence to be found.

Dog Day Afternoon has tons of weapons and even a bank robbery at the core, but it is in no way an action movie. Same thing with the recent Inside Man.
 
I saw this movie tonight and it was awful. If you are a fan of Michael Mann's films, you will be disappointed. Other people in the seats at the theater were booing and were complaining about the movie when it ended. Collateral was Oscar nominated and Jamie Foxx should have won supporting actor for the film. Miami Vice is suppose to be an action movie? It was definately not to me. It was more of a drama with a few sequences of action. The story was boring too and I was waiting so long to see some action.
 
So Collateral is not an action movie? How many people did Tom Cruise kill in the movie? How many times did he fire his gun?
 
Violence and car chases does not automatically constitute an action film... Unless it is something like "Lethal Weapon", or "The Matrix" where the focus is on these things more than character exploration and introspection...

Which is what I think Michael Mann specializes in more than anything else. It just happens the backdrops he chooses, crime, the underworld, war, often involve elements of violence because of the very nature of these subcultures more than the films being action movies per se. This is a subtle distinction I think can be applied to Michael Mann films and then also applied to films of Bret Ratner and Michael Bay as a direct contrast in my opinion.
 
Yeesh, woman - I was a sophomore in college! :lol:

I remember the advent of the show vividly, and how quickly it set the nation on fire. I'll be curious to see where they go with the film, if it'll carry the same dark angst of the show (really, I had to stop watching because everyone they knew or cared about died, and it was so damned depressing!).
 
Jacob - while I haven't seen the film and I don't quite agree with you on Mann films, I do see where you're coming from. Clearly we have a different interpretation of what 'action' constitutes (does a film have to be called an action movie just because it has chase scenes? I don't believe so, especially if it's not the main focus of the film), and what Mann's films are really projecting. I stand my ground but it's cool to disagree. :)

Magical - it's interesting - the original series was similar to what you describe, or at least, that's how I experienced it. Crocket and Tubbs weren't really buddies in the "Buddy Film/Show" sense of the term. I never got a sense that they liked each other, but more that they protected each other because it was their job.

But the characters always felt cold, and the ones you wound up caring about - their female colleagues - were the ones who had the most emotional draw...but they didn't fair any better than their male colleagues.

As for the sex - this show was considered ground-breaking in its steaminess, so I'm not surprised, but it was sex for getting the drug dealer, or sex for hire, or sex for manipulation - you get the idea.

Jacob - While I can't argue about Colin Farrell's accent, he does look the part.

Freddie - my neighbor has season tickets but I don't get to go to the games now that my grandmother's losing her eye sight. She's a rabid fan, but it's just too hard for her to see what's happening even if we have great seats behind the dugout. But that was a great ending yesterday, wasn't it? :D

/OT
 
Another thing that made the movie bad was the dialogue. I was laughing at Colin Farell a lot when he was talking. His so-called southern accent kept going on and off again. And Gong Li needs a speech coach. It was very hard to understand what she was saying during the movie.
 
Michael Mann is one of my favorite directors so I trust him with two talented actors and a hot setting. I really can't wait for this. I saw a trailer months ago and it was def something I wanted to see more of!

1984? Wow, no wonder I don't remember this well, I was barely a year old when the tv show started airing. I guess the movie will fix that.
 
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Summary: After a tragic security breach in the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (JIATF), the FBI ask for help from the Miami authorities, who are not part of the compromised group. This assignment goes to Detectives James 'Sonny' Crockett and Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs.

Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker.

Going undercover as offshore boat racers and outlaw smugglers Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper, they take on the narcotrafficking network of the mysterious Archangel de Jesus Montoya-Londono and his Cuban Chinese banker Isabella. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially when Crockett falls for Isabella, and when there is an assault on Tubbs's loved ones.

The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged.

Director: Michael Mann

Release Date (U.S.): July 28, 2006

Running Time: 128-146* min.


*Not finalized at this time. One test screening for studio execs clocked in at 146 minutes while the most recent final cut was 128 minutes.

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Finally, an adult movie for adults.

Contray to popular belief, this is not another lame remake of an old TV show. This is another entry in Michael Mann's series of gritty crime dramas in the similar vein of "Heat" and "Collateral" where what makes both the both the good and bad guys tick is just as important as the terrible things they do to each other and the ones they love in the pursuit of their own personal codes of justice, no matter what side of the law they fall on.

This film shares the name of the NBC TV series starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas which ran from 1984 to 1989... But this is where the similarities end as Mann wanted to make the 2006 version of Miami Vice more like a modern-day "French Connection" than a campy TV-series remake.

However, while the TV series was/is often more known for the pastel wardrobe of its main star (Johson) and being a prime example of the decadent 1980s, the show itself was one of the most cutting-edge shows as far as combing chart-topping hits of the day with impressive visuals every week to create an almost surreal world where it seemed the show was one giant music video with a little dialogue thrown in for good measure.

Here is a scene which clearly demonstrates how adhead of its time Miami Vice (the series) was when it was on the air over 20 years ago:

Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight from Pilot Episode

...And...

Russ Ballard - Voices

It is a flashback/montage video as Crockett and Tubbs are on their way to the Bahammas to nab the head of a vicious drug cartel who has fled U.S. extradition. The scene is considered the quintessential Miami Vice scene from all five seasons due to the inclusion of the cigarrette boat and the music video-style editing.
 
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