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(1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   12   > Next D- "Where did all the money go? That's all I could think about while watching Miami Vice, the summer stinker for this week."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "Beautiful to look at and difficult to embrace, this is a movie of moments, not of overall narrative force."   DVD Verdict   Bill Gibron B "The film is so visually vivid, Mann could almost get away with taking out the ham-fisted dialog completely and let the whole thing run silent."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "Gong Li's face and form are made for this: she absorbs the movie's energies and just like that, it hardly matters what Crockett or Tubbs thinks he's doing."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...that the movie cost a reported $130 million is jaw-dropping, as there's virtually no evidence of that bloated price tag on the screen."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C "If you were a fan of the popular trend-setting TV show, this film should suit you just fine."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Even as it sinks to shocking depths in the shadow of its own flagrant egotism, Miami Vice is nearly—just nearly—saved by its top-shelf aesthetics."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 2/5 "Un policial moderadamente efectivo y bien realizado, alejado por completo de la estética de la serie televisiva original. Intrascendente."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio C "In Mann's attempt to make something artsy and grown-up, he has neglected the element of fun."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Just stalling as it desperately tries to string together the length of three commercial-free episodes that would have been cancelled by the first interruption of #102."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B "The star of Miami Vice is, of course, Michael Mann, whose manipulation of this material is by far the most compelling reason to see the film."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "Shockingly, the movie is never really heightened artistically...Miami Vice feels relentlessly tired and trivial in its raucous tracks."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "Not nearly as stylish as the old TV series was, but just as vacuous in the narrative department...a retread that comes to the showroom already bald."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A tense urban drama about two gutsy undercover cops who enjoy their improvised lives of danger and surprises. "   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "As cop movies go, Miami Vice does interesting things with unoriginal material."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Mann wants to distance his film from the Reagan-era consumerist fantasy of the TV show that inspired it, but all he does is put a dour veneer of visual grime over the same attitudes."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Overlong and dull."   SA Movie & DVD Magazine   James O'Ehley 1/4 "A dark pastiche of murky drug deals and menacing thugs sans the tongue-in-cheek humor and neon nights of television's crayola-washed classic."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 5/10 "Has a lot to look at but little to actually watch. The plot is a standard 'cops go undercover to expose drug ring' story, and the characters have no personalities."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 2.5/4 "Recent examples of slim premises that boasted strong and muscular cinematic style, not to mention a sly sense of humor Miami Vice generally lacks, were Cellular and Red Eye."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 4/10 "What a boring movie."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/5 "Not the film we were promised but no shame either, Miami Vice is loaded with just enough thrills and spills to keep us glued to our seats."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 6/10 "Filled with gorgeous images, expertly assembled and perfectly set to music. But for the most part, it's all completely superfluous"   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "The bad news is I didn't have any idea what was going on in this movie. The good news is it didn't really seem to matter."   In the Dark   Jonathan F. Richards 2/4 "Su principal atractivo es el de ver cómo Hollywood es capaz de tirar el dinero para producir un filme que se irá de cartelera de la misma forma en que llegó, con más pena que gloria. "   Moviola   Jorge Avila Andrade 3/5 "click for full review [Greek]"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4/5 "Miami Vice is stylish and slick. It visually smacks you in the head and makes you pay attention. "   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 4/4 "In retrospect it is clear that the rapturous Miami Vice is the work Mann has been building to."   House Next Door   Keith Uhlich 2/5 "I guess I was expecting too much of the old television show in this movie, and it didn't deliver any of that. They didn't even use the theme song, for crying out loud."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B "Michael Mann is the first director to make Colin Farrell seem like a man rather than the impish thugs or mooning boy-men he usually gives us."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Miami Vice is pure Miami Vice. It's pure Michael Mann. And most importantly of all, Colin Farrell is pure Don Johnson"   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Leo Goldsmith 2.5/4 "Gone is the dreamy atmosphere of sun-kissed decadence, replaced by joyless business transactions that are punctuated by short, sharp shocking bursts of violence..."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "You don't 'enjoy' this movie -- you're enthralled by it.... [T]his is a complete reimagining that is resolutely of the moment, that doesn't deign to a single winking nod to the past."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2/4 "The Foxx-Farrell pairing can best be summed up by the first real Crockett-Tubbs scene in the film: on the rooftop of a club, on the phone... having separate conversations. The two share the frame and the on-set air but nothing else."   Mr. Brown's Movies   Michael Dequina 2/4 "I say, bring back the pastel suits, the flamingos, and the Jan Hammer score. You can keep Phil Collins, though."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "There could be quite an active drinking game if viewers took a shot every time someone in the movie says something like, "Here's how it's going to be" or "Here's how it's going to happen.""   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow A- "Thrums with a raw, fierce, jazzy soul."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "Mas é justamente neste momento que, infelizmente, Michael Mann parece se lembrar de que, afinal de contas, está a serviço de Hollywood."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2/5 "I have no idea why studio executives think Mann is a go-to-guy for summer fare. He's so serious and so concerned with setting a scene and establishing grit that his movies lack coherency or, far more important, fun."   Filmcritic.com   Pete Croatto 2.5/5 "This updated version, starring Colin Farrell as Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Tubbs, is far from a disaster, but doesn't rank with Mann's best work."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 3/5 "Cool to look at, but there's nothing to it."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 1/5 "Michael Mann seems to have set out to extricate everything that made the show fun and original."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves A "[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them."   Stranger Song   Rob Humanick C+ "Would you rather have a second-tier film from a first-rate director, or a first-tier film from a second-rate director?"   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C- "Miami Vice is long, dull and dark and does little to stimulate the moviegoer's mind or eye."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 1.5/5 "Vice lacks that human touch, those insights into the men away from their beats... Mannequin Vice might have made for a better title."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 3/4 "cool but not as cool"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson "This somber action picture bravely defies expectations and gives us something wholly new."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 6/10 "It's style over substance in this explosive, shoot 'em up that tries to make up with fast pace and visceral atmosphere what it lacks in characterization and coherence."   Modamag.com   Susan Granger 3/4 "Miami Vice isn't a great film, but it's ours."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 41% Rotten Page   12   > Next