{"id":2852,"date":"2006-08-19T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2006-08-19T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T12:09:56","slug":"miami-vice-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/19\/miami-vice-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Vice (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mann is in quite a predicament with \u201cMiami Vice\u201d a remake of his hit show from the eighties. He created a show that was ahead of its time, a gritty realistic show about two cops in the underground, years subsequent to the shows success and ending, over a thousand imitations popped up in film, television, and novels, and the formula became old. The sad state of Mann\u2019s adaptation of his own work is that \u201cMiami Vice\u201d was edgy in its time, but these days we\u2019ve had so many gritty cop flicks with a black and white officer partnership, that the concept presented here is just tired and feels simply like a vehicle for its two stars.<\/p>\n

After seeing Mann\u2019s film \u201cHeat\u201d, and being a fan of it for a long time, \u201cMiami Vice\u201d just ends up feeling lightweight and pointless. And while I\u2019m never averse to Mann\u2019s work, this remake just feels like a vain attempt to market on a past endeavor when Mann doesn\u2019t need it. \u201cMiami Vice\u201d is a misstep on every level, from casting, script, and its incredibly predictable story that really never paves any new steps, it just follows the same path of past drug law enforcement thrillers that we\u2019ve seen on late night cable. Tubbs and Crocket are gritty very serious law enforcement agents that have to go deep underground to corrupt a drug circuit involving white supremacists—z-z-z-z-z.<\/p>\n

Oh sorry, well let\u2019s just say that a lot of developments occur including romances with the two men and their women folk, a stand off, a climactic gun battle, and a lot of snooze inducing love scenes. \u201cMiami Vice\u201d is boring. It\u2019s painfully boring. It\u2019s so boring I nearly fell asleep an hour into it. And what\u2019s worse is that everyone in the cast looks incredibly bored, doing nothing but staggering around and murmuring lines, while Foxx and Farrell simply have no chemistry or interplay. The film takes itself very seriously, even more seriously than Mann\u2019s \u201cHeat\u201d, and that brings the film to a sleepy atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Mann eagerly attempts grit and realism from beginning to end, and fails miserably. There\u2019s no life to this, and underneath the sleepy expressions of our entire cast is a sluggish clich\u00e9 tale of officers fighting drug traffickers, and getting “in too deep”. It\u2019s sadly just more of the same, when I expect more from Mann. I used to love the series of \u201cMiami Vice\u201d because Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas had chemistry, charisma, and seemed to work well together; well, Mann should have quit while he was ahead. His remake of his own property is dull, clich\u00e9, routine, and pointless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mann is in quite a predicament with \u201cMiami Vice\u201d a remake of his hit show from the eighties. He created a show that was ahead of its time, a gritty realistic show about two cops in the underground, years subsequent to the shows success and ending, over a thousand imitations popped up in film, television, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,240,302,391,617,1087],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-gangster","tag-m","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}