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'Miami Vice': So dark you might get lost
by Bob Longino

"Miami Vice" on the big screen is not about sun, surf, fashion or Jan Hammer's echoing drum sounds. And, no, as one of the waning summer's last big movies, "Vice" isn't the action film its marketing plan might suggest. This "Miami Vice" is a dark, grainy and heavy drama and so super-serious and smoky thick it could be called "Miasma Vice." Read the full review

TO SUM UP
Vice squad detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs take on the Florida drug world as their personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined. Based on the 1980s television series of the same name.

FILM FACTS ...

Universal Pictures

'Miami Vice'

Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris, Ciaràn Hinds
Run time: 132 minutes
Release date: July 28, 2006
Rating: R for strong violence, language and some sexual content.
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Grunge aesthetic
Gasp! Is this truly the future of movie photography?

On the web
Official movie site
View the trailer
Trailers require Quicktime

READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C
"The film is almost jokeless and at times nearly incomprehensible — even during its bullet-riddled finale."

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Austin American-Statesman: 4 of 5 stars
"... an unflinching contemporary crime drama that makes no concessions to pop nostalgia or mocking remakes."

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The Palm Beach Post: C
"We will have to take (director Michael) Mann's word for it that Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, for beyond their names, there is little to connect them to their television antecedents."