Miami Vice (Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx) (DVD)

Another review from me of a film adapted from a TV series. This time, it's popular 1980s crime detective drama Miami Vice to get a makeover for the big screen in 2006. The Plot Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett are undercover cops in humid Florida, working to bring down the underworld drugs circuit by infiltrating it with their team of highly skilled cops. They get closer to a drugs and guns trafficker, and Sonny finds himself drawn to the trafficker's wife, putting himself and his team in jeopardy of being killed, let alone rumbled as undercover agents. The sparks soon begin to fly as a big heist looms on the horizon, with Sonny and Tubbs the only ...  Read the complete review

When my husband told me that our next rental film was Miami Vice (2006) I admit that I did giggle - images of the 80s television series kept flashing into my head and really hoped there might be a few baggy suits with t-shirts and slip-ons without socks in view. But alas despite the suits and t-shirts it had been brought up to date (which I knew they would really) except I couldn't quite get over Colin Farrell looking like Steve Coogan's Tony Ferrino! And the fact that this film was directed by Michael Mann, whose films such as Heat and Collateral I really quite like, meant that I actually held out hope that this would be quite a good film. Was I right? I have to say ...  Read the complete review

Having watched and enjoyed the spoof re-make of Starskey & Hutch a few years ago I rented this film in the hope that I might find a film on a similar vein or a least a bit of 80s nostalgia for the eponymous TV series. It just shows that I need to research films a lot more before I add them to my rental list! Firstly there is no comedy and secondly there is no 80s nostalgia - no designer stubble, electro pop soundtrack or rolled up jacket sleeves. What we have here is just a generic, present day, cop 'buddy' movie that happens to be set in Miami at least some of the time. The film jumps straight into the action as Crockett (Colin Farrell with dodgy hair and ...  Read the complete review

What is God? Is it an all powerful being that determines the fate of all people? Do you imagine a giant man with a flowing white beard divining what is right from a celestial abode? Perhaps it is a woman, Mother Nature if you will, keeping the balance of the planet through environmental manipulation? Or perhaps, you work in Hollywood and you know what/who God exactly is – you. ‘Miami Vice’ is a first rate lesson in how people in Hollywood think they are really great. Overblown egos leading to awful films; welcome to the worst type of American film. Before I go into more detail about the ‘plot’ of this ‘film’ I would like to point out that this is my ...  Read the complete review

Introduction --------------- After a security breach leads to several deaths, detectives James “Sonny” Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are sent deep undercover to bring down a gang of drug traffickers. However, their personal and professional lives start to become intertwined. Will they remember whose side they are really on? The Cast ----------- Colin Farrell is James “Sonny” Crockett, the unorthodox cop played in the original TV series by Don Johnson. Frankly, it’s not a good role for Farrell. Sporting long, greasy hair and a stupid 70s style moustache, he looks ridiculous. Sadly, his performance is not much better than his look. He tries to ...  Read the complete review