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New York Magazine (Vulture) by
It's a sensational trip -- gorgeous, gaga.
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70
Unlike most TV-to-movie transitions, Mann returns to his roots and delivers what amounts to a slightly overblown episode, brimming with style and characteristically short on substance.
50
It's filled with Mann's signature macho verisimilitude, but essentially it's the stuff of what, in saner fiscal times, would have been a B movie. Miami Vice delivers the thrills, atmosphere and romance it promises, but it doesn't resonate like major Mann.
60
It's about guns and sex and fast boats, and, baffling as it is at times, it's still the kind of brutal fantasy that many of us relish a great deal more than yet another aerated digital dream.
75
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
The two best words to describe the 2006 motion picture Miami Vice are "stylish" and "intense."
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
A darker, grittier creature that, while benefiting considerably from Dion Beebe's HD cinematography, is a frustratingly inert affair -- a long and talky excursion that fails to engage the viewer from the outset.
75
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
As entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
60
Dark, detailed and only really gets going when the gunplay starts.
83
While it never approaches the richness and gravity of a great Mann film like "Heat," Miami Vice blurs the thin blue line to similar effect, and he features a couple of bravura setpieces, including a tense raid on an enemy hideout and a shootout with chaotic, you-are-there immediacy. If only all summer movies were this majestically slight.