Release Date: July 28, 2006
If Michael Mann has shown over the years that he has a lot of any one thing as a filmmaker, it has been that he has style, lots of style. His films are distinctive in the fact that they are so flashy. The gorgeous women, the fast cars, the pastel colors and flowing locks of hair that usually resonate from around the head of one of the films lead characters. All of this gets wrapped up into what we have come to know as a true Michael Mann film. Heat is the most notable and most stylish of Mann’s previous works, bringing us one of the best urban crime dramas of all time. With that same style in mind, Mann set out this year to bring back one of his most memorable (and pastel filled) works of television, Miami Vice, and bring it to the big screen.
To bring back such a moniker of pop culture could easily be viewed as a risk for Mann, as the generation that originally followed Vice has moved on and crossed over into their old and cranky years (late 40s). This new Vice would have to be riddled with a different kind of flair, something that only a director like Mann can produce. So Mann set forth to give the story of Crockett and Tubbs a much needed upgrade, casting actors Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx to play the lead roles. In this go-round of Vice, the two undercover cops are deep into a large Columbian drug lord’s business trying to get to the bottom of an FBI operation gone terribly wrong. And you can only guess what happens as the heat turns up; beautiful women are involved (naturally), the two men are caught way in too deep (of course), and there is plenty of wavy locks of blonde hair flowing from Colin Farrell’s head during some of the most intense gun-fighting that we have seen since… well, Heat.
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