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Re: Miami Vice
I saw it today.
(minor spoilers but not really)
I think there's more good than bad in it, but I couldn't help but wish for more... I actually really liked the grainy DV look of Miami at night but really wanted some shot-on-film vividness to the day stuff... I was really hoping this movie would be the melding of Collateral's night/very close-up shooting and Heat/Insider's stunningly beautiful exterior stuff... but the day shots ended up being kind of dull and video-y to me... I much preferred the night stuff.
Certain parts I liked very much... there just weren't enough of them.
The story... is what it is I guess. I had some problems with it... but I guess that's up to everyone. Kind of like how it bugs some people in Collateral that of course the last target on Cruise's list is Pinkett Smith because there was that random cab ride in the beginning ("you like the classics too?"). So here, of course certain things are going to happen I guess... most of them are in the trailer too ("there's deep undercover and then there's which-way-is-up") and part of me hoped all that would get chopped like the "do you know what forboding means?" bit (or is it verboten? neither word makes a whole lot of sense in an undercover vice cop movie)... but certain standards to the genre are still here.
So I don't know why but I was somehow hoping for something special, and ended up with more of a by-the-numbers approach. Except Crockett and Tubs are both painfully cool... Foxx's goatee man... I wanted it to get caught in a garbage disposal or something... except both of these guys are WAY to cool to ever wash dishes, so that scene was out.
And yeah, the sex stuff in here is just plain weird. Close-ups of Foxx's back... huh?
I was also happy to see that one guy get work. I really liked him on that old Denis Leary TV show called The Job.
so yeah, I'd say I liked it. I'd put it between Thief and Ali as far as my favorite Mann movies go (Heat's at the top, followed by Insider then Collateral, Manhunter, Thief, this, Ali, Mohicans... haven't seen The Keep).
oh well.
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