Miami Vice

It's a little perverse that Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of Miami Vice, an '80s cop show remembered for its decadent beachfront locales and pastel color scheme, turned out to be the least frivolous summer movie of 2006. The film was not terribly well-received at the time, but it has a lot to recommend it, including a couple of bravura setpieces, like a tense raid on an enemy hideout and a shootout orchestrated with chaotic, you-are-there immediacy. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx won’t make anyone forget the original Crockett and Tubbs, but their misadventures as rogue Miami detectives provide enough grist for Mann to do his work. 

Updated 11/18/2009