MIAMI VICE FACTS

Miami cop Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) lives with Bronx-born intelligence analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris), and they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Meanwhile, Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) goes undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group and gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Soon it's tough to figure out who's on the right side of the law.

Cast Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris

Director(s) Michael Mann

Writer(s) Michael Mann

Status In theaters (wide)

Genre(s) Action/Adventure, Action, Cops, Police, Drama (General), Drug Dealers, 1980s, Weapons

Release Date July 28, 2006

Running Time 135 minutes

MPAA Rating R - for strong violence, language and some sexual content.

OUR REVIEW
by Dave White

Who's in It: Jamie Foxx, Colin Farrell, Gong Li, Naomie Harris
The Basics: Crockett and Tubbs have not aged one bit since 1985. That's weird! They still chase the bad guys in deep cover, and their personal lives still keep getting mixed up in it, which I think makes them bad at their jobs, right?
What's the Deal? Do not approach this movie like it's some kind of campy "I Heart the '80s" moment. It's stone-faced and serious. Because this is Michael Mann, a director so exacting that Entertainment Weekly just reported that he banned the color red from the film. This guy gives you deliberate character studies and moody art-house techniques in his big-budget Hollywood pictures. He demands that you think he's important. It would be annoying if his movies weren't mostly great.
The Violence Tastes Violence-y-er: I like a good bloodbath as much as the next moviegoer. But what's really powerful here is that the violence is reserved for the moments when it really deserves to be in the movie. And it's delivered with a major punch.
Anybody Out There Seen Shanghai Triad? It's this early '90s movie Gong Li was in, where she played the lone woman who was in with a powerful drug lord. Sort of like here. No spoilers or anything, but the character's fate is similar to here, too.
Amount of Actual Red: None deliberately inserted, it's true. No red clothes on major characters, no red sets, nothing but blood, stop lights, car brakes, T-shirts on extras and one sloppily painted wall they pass by in one scene. Yeah, I was looking for it. But still. There was red. Technically.

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