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Miami Vice Review

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4.5

Dave White Profile

… delivered with a major punch. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    65

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    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 38

    out of 100

    USA Today

    All this movie has in common with its ancestor are speedboats, shotguns and drug-dealing Colombians.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    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.

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For Families provided by Common Sense Media

Iffy for 16+

Dark, violent update of TV series. Not for kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this movie is not for kids. It's focused on cops undercover as drug smugglers: This involves lying, dealing with criminals, and performing illegal activities. The film includes frequent references to drug use and some images (crystal meth, cocaine, heroin). It also features brutal violence: gunshots blow through bodies, limbs, and heads, producing much blood. The effect is not cartoonish, but grisly and startling. Characters seek revenge, but don't always feel better when they achieve it.

  • Families can talk about the friendship between Crockett and Tubbs: Why do they support each other even when one thinks the other is going astray? Why does Crockett decide to help his criminal girlfriend escape? How do the various "sides" (cops, federal agents, and several tiers of criminals) distrust and betray one another?

The good stuff
  • message true0

    Messages: Cops and criminals corrupt; undercover cops lie for a living and kill many bad guys, but love their women.

What to watch for
  • violence false5

    Violence: Explosions, bloody gunfights (arms, chests, and heads blown off or open); fighting and stabbing.

  • sex false5

    Sex: Sex scenes show naked bottoms and breasts (two makeout scenes in showers); some kissing and slinky dancing.

  • language false5

    Language: Repeated uses of f-word and s--t; other obscenities and occasional slang for male genitals.

  • consumerism false0

    Consumerism: Mac powerbooks, allusion to Fed Ex.

  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3

    Drinking, drugs and smoking: Focus on drug dealers (mostly heroin bricks); protagonists drink liguor; secondary characters smoke cigarettes, cook meth, and drink liquor.

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Average Rating: 3.089
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5

Great modernization from the series, one of the best movies ever(by Mann who always makes top notch classics) by jamal1989
Brilliant work by Mann, if you notice he added elements from the series-but you just can't quit and be bias and say that since there are no pastel colors and bright suits mean that it isn't Miami Vice-you have to watch it again because it gets better with every viewing. The ending even felt like watching a episode of the series.

5

Best movie ever by Marlene24
Michael Mann is at it again with this masterpiece, Miami Vice. If you have seen Collateral by the same director, you have already seen a film that is almost identical in stylistic approach to Miami Vice. In fact several scenes are very similar indeed. As well as the frequent use of the vocal talents of Chris Cornell from Audioslave on the sound track. The film is a modernization of the original TV series of which Mann was an Exec Producer. It is a Brooding and dark film that has no fear of the fantasy of giving two policemen a Lear Jet, a Ferrari, a speed boat, a Yaught and so on. All this aside this film is very good. The acting by Farrell and Foxx is first rate and some of the opening scenes are eye candy of the highest order. The last 40 minutes are classic status. The music and cinemetography is Oscar worthy.

5

Great movie, can't stop watching this by rjjbhopgoat
Miami Vice is a fantastic movie, it was beautifully well-made. Michael Mann is a master at the crime/drama genre. This movie is a masterpiece.

3

by jjcbrianv

3

by cptjacksprincess

4

by popcorn_robot

5

by Biztek1

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