Aug 10 2006
Miami Vice
Dir: Michael Mann
Writ: Michael Mann & TV show by Anthony Yerkovich
- Colin Farrell - ‘Sonny’ Crockett
- Jamie Foxx - Ricardo Tubbs
- Li Gong - Isabella
- Naomie Harris - Trudy Joplin
- Ciarán Hinds - FBI Agent Fujima
If I’m honest there isn’t much to say about this film. Overall it is a huge amount of meh. Nothing more, nothing less.
Maybe I should at the very least try?
Basic blot outline, Sonny and Ricardo are undercover agents, and after one an interagency force gets discovered, they go undercover in order to find out what agency is responsible for the leak, and how the drug dealers discovered this. So off they travel, to some poor drug-ridden, crime-infested South American country. And get the gig, now they are in with the baddies. But not quite trusted.
And then Sonny starts to fall for the main badguys’ girl, who is also a very efficent “business woman”
But I just didn’t care. Scenes and scenes of talk, talk, and wait for it, yes, a little more talk. Interspersed there are some very pretty shots. But scenery and talking doesn’t make for an entertaining film… actually I was entertained by Cave of the Yellow Dog which was very much scenery and dialogue, so I guess you can. But not here. It is all just so pointless. There’s no tension or drama. And while the action scenes do look great, they don’t feel great.
My final verdict? I’ll paraphrase the woman who left the cinema just after me “In all fairness now, that was fucking woeful.”
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Tags: 5 Stars, action, Anthony Yerkovich, based on a TV show, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Farrell, crime, drugs, explosions, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, meh, Miami Vice, Michael Mann, Naomie Harris, police, undercover cops