Miami Vice (2006)

Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Director:

Michael Mann

Writers:

Michael Mann, Anthony Yerkovich (TV series)

Stars:

Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Colin Farrell	...	Sonny Crockett
Jamie Foxx	...	Ricardo Tubbs
Li Gong	...	Isabella (as Gong Li)
Naomie Harris	...	Trudy Joplin
Ciarán Hinds	...	FBI Agent Fujima
Justin Theroux	...	Detective Larry Zito
Barry Shabaka Henley	...	Castillo
Luis Tosar	...	Montoya
John Ortiz	...	Jose Yero
Elizabeth Rodriguez	...	Gina Calabrese
Domenick Lombardozzi	...	Detective Stan Switek
Eddie Marsan	...	Nicholas
Isaach De Bankolé	...	Neptune (as Isaach De Bankole)
John Hawkes	...	Alonzo Stevens
Tom Towles	...	Coleman

Storyline

Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

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Plot Keywords:

undercover | detective | fbi | drug dealer | fbi agent | 

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Taglines:

No Rules

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence, language and some sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

UIP [hu] United International Pictures [de]

Country:

USA Germany Paraguay Uruguay

Language:

English Spanish

Release Date:

28 July 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Corrupción en Miami

Filming Locations:

Atlántida, Canelones, Uruguay

Box Office

Budget:

$135,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$48,525 (Chile) (29 September 2006)

Gross:

$132,120 (Chile) (13 October 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Motion Picture ETA Produktionsgesellschaft, Forward Pass

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min 140 min (unrated director's edition)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie, along with Heat and Collateral, all feature at one point or another, a white supremacist or supremacists. Waingro has various tattoos of his affiliation. Max, in Collateral, is robbed while tied to the steering wheel. Apart from their boots, quilted jackets, and generally all being Caucasian, the thug holding the gun to Max, has a small and faint swastika on the corner of his lower eye.

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Goofs

In the opening club scene when Crockett and Tubbs go the roof of Mansion, they are clearly on the roof of a building that is downtown Miami (Bank of American building in background, etc). Mansion is located on Washington Ave on Miami Beach, not downtown Miami.

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Quotes

Isabella: Time is luck.

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Crazy Credits

Although there were no opening credits in the theatrical release, the Unrated Director's Cut contains credits over a new sequence that opens the film. Once the credits are done, the film begins in the nightclub scene that opened the theatrical version.

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Connections

Remake of Miami Vice (1984)

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Soundtracks

"Ready For Love"
Written by Blue Miller, India.Arie
Performed by India.Arie
Courtesy of Motown Records
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

User Reviews

"Miami Vice" is a very exciting film—from start to finish…

Michael Mann presents the city of Miami as attractive, engaging, alluring, sensual and also dangerous…

This is a story about being undercover, and what happens when you go deep undercover, particularly if you're doing an operation in a foreign country, where your badge doesn't count and where you can't have a SWAT team surveilling you, and people are not in contact, you really are out on the edge…

Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) have to act, talk and walk like bad guys… They have to convince a mid-level trafficker, the Colombian José Yero (John Ortiz) that they are not cops… So they have to adapt themselves and change themselves to play the role they're trying to play… It's all the impulses in their personality with the volume turned up and the inhibitions turned off…

"Miami Vice" is not about one commodity, cocaine, and one geographical location, Columbia… It's about globalized forms of trafficking… Los Angeles to Port of Prince, to Guajira Peninsula, to Havana and, naturally, to Miami… Crockett and Tubbs had to deal with major narcotics traffickers that act as brilliant businessmen, at the upper echelons of command and control, sitting in luxurious houses, eating the best foods, driving the best cars…

Mann has, wisely, taken the format of the show presenting two cops confronting wealth and power after the death of one informant and the killing of his whole family…

As police drama go, "Miami Vice" does exciting things when Yero jacked one of the two Miami cops' people… The film is impeccable, especially in the last 30 minutes, when the police decided not to initiate until they've got Yero's shooters in their sights…