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  Review by nadine smith ★★★★★ 26

  it thunders a lot in this movie but it never rains

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 5

  You've all heard this before....*ahem* - Once I had a fortune. It said "leave now, life is short, time is luck."

  Anyways, this is like - still the peak of digital photography in movies? NOTHING else looks like this. This is one of the most lyrical, abstract and oblique films to come out of Hollywood. German expressionism gone digital - of course this puzzled many when it first came out, Mann is like a silent filmmaker here - pictures tell us a story before actors do. Moods are denoted by shades of colours in neon. And whole pools, waves of emotions revealed by the near-abstraction in the formations of a cloud.

  The last time we see Farrell prior to the…

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 12

  hola chica

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  Review by nickusen

  colin farrell is a sentient pile of cocaine with a handle bar mustache and it is easily one of my favorite performances ever

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 20

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  Whenever I revisit Miami Vice, my love for cinema is rekindled, ignited like a cool-blue flame. It's so enrapturing, you just want to throw your arms forward and jump head-first into the screen.

  Michael Mann is a poet of impressions. In the director's cut, he begins the film with a boat race torn between layers of water and air. Then, a nightclub rooftop illuminated by a magenta sky. And the smear of blood on the asphalt after a suicide on a stretch of highway. These are but a few of Michael Mann's calculated images given a feverish intensity in the first fifteen minutes - a hyper-real display of life on the edge, with the environment as immediate as the…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★★ 4

  "Do you dance?"
  "I dance."

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★★★ 11

  literally the best movie ever made.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★★ 1

  The change happen at some point midway through Ali, but video certain bring it upfront: the rich detailed oriented world of Mann's 80s and 90s films mutate from the high novelistic accumulation of detail to one in which all that research becomes background, a clutch for world that remains always in the verge of dissolve. What matter in late Mann is just the permanence of the romantic/mythic gesture in the middle of such world. Mann remains the most Hawksian filmmaker of his generation, much more than self professed Hawks disciples like Hill or Carpenter, not because of his emphasis in professionalism as a stick to measure its characters so much as because his world is so heavily stylized: much like…

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 29

  made me just wanna watch Bad Boys instead. but maybe i’m just being harsh because this was the project i DP’d for college credit freshman year

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  Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 9

  I, too, am a fiend for mojitos.

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  Review by Bilge Ebiri ★★★★★ 3

  Umpteenth viewing. One of the greatest films ever. Decided to give the director's cut another go after multiple recent re-viewings of the theatrical cut, as well as all of Mann's other films, while writing my profile of him for Vulture.

  Here's the thing: While the theatrical cut might be "canonical," I really really love the director's cut as well. Yes, losing the cold open in the club is wrong, but other than that, there's a lot of stuff here that works quite nicely and fleshes things out. I particularly like the way the longer version fleshes out the two male-female relationships -- especially Naomie Harris and Jamie Foxx, whose romance winds up being slightly backgrounded in the theatrical.

  Also, the…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 28

  Viewed the theatrical cut, which is the version I prefer.

  Michael Mann's Miami Vice is nothing short of astonishing. Simultaneously a masterful crime story as well as one of the greatest showcases for layered and metaphorically dense imagery; Mann brings his all in a film that is as enthralling as it is forbiddingly tragic. The camera moves, jolts, rockets, observes, and focuses on these individuals as they go about their jobs, and It's fascinating beyond belief. This is Colin Farrell's finest work, even with the mustache. He slips, slides, and digs deep into the character of Sonny Crockett. Along with fantastic supporting players such as Jamie Foxx, Ciaran Hinds, and Li Gong; the result is a film overflowing with absorbing…