Metacritic Movie Ratings
Miami Vice Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  The New York TimesDana 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 JournalJoe 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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• 75

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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

  VarietyBrian 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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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael 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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• 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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