Michael Mann treads a very similar aesthetic path in Miami Vice as he did "Collateral" a few years ago. It still kicks ass though. Filming mostly at night once again with a hot colour pallette, you can feel the steam in Miami. The Director of Photography, Dion Beebe, will probably be forgotten come Oscar time, but he's done great work here.Instead of an opening title sequence, Mann gets right down to business putting us in a pulsing club with Crocket & Tubbs as they negotiate the underground crime syndicates.
Much like the great TV-Series, the plot is a bit run-of-the-mill, but Mann is able to throw in a few twists to always keep us interested.
My only qualms are Colin Farrell's awful hair, and the casting of the stunning Gong-Li. The former looks really dumb, while the latter looks like a fish out of water in some of the more dramatic moments on screen.
Make no mistake, this is a well made and entertaining summer movie.
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