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Miami Vice
2005 Directed by : Michael Mann
So the inevitable has happened, yet another remake from the lazy brain-dead studios of Hollywood.
There seems to be two Michael Manns, one of them makes great movies that have style and substance, the other makes over stylised, heavy on the montage craptacular turkeys.
Sadly Miami Vice fall into the later category, but at least Ali now has some company!!!!
So what's so wrong with Miami Vice? Well from the start the film is a mess, there is no character development at all, a ludicrous love story, and no real sense of any relationship between the two main characters that sugests either man would follow his partner into the gates of hell, and perhaps worst of all the script appears to have been written by a five year old.
There is as always with a Mann film nice shiny things to look at, fast cars, fast boats, fast planes and fast women, but ultimately this film is far more filler than killer.
The trailer makes the film look action packed, it's not, more the pity, because Mann knows how to make clever action pictures when he's on form, Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Collateral all prove this, but sadly Miami Vice lacks any real punch.
Apart from his constant use of montages to fill out his movies, the other trait of Mann that annoys me is his choice of shots, there were so many shots purposely shot out of focus and badly rack-focused that I began to believe I might need glasses half way through.
The main " human story " revolves around Colin Farrell and Gong Li's love story, which to me was not only totally unbelievable but also lacked any real conviction. Hard nosed drug kingpin's moll falls head over heals for rogue drug dealing undercover cop, Gong Li's stilted english isn't that bad because the script is so torrid!
Anyway, rant over, please can we have the Michael Mann that directed Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Heat and Collateral back, and can we send the other one to MTV hell?
A dissapointment from Mann, a director who is more miss than hit these days!
Rating 1/5
2005 Directed by : Michael Mann
So the inevitable has happened, yet another remake from the lazy brain-dead studios of Hollywood.
There seems to be two Michael Manns, one of them makes great movies that have style and substance, the other makes over stylised, heavy on the montage craptacular turkeys.
Sadly Miami Vice fall into the later category, but at least Ali now has some company!!!!
So what's so wrong with Miami Vice? Well from the start the film is a mess, there is no character development at all, a ludicrous love story, and no real sense of any relationship between the two main characters that sugests either man would follow his partner into the gates of hell, and perhaps worst of all the script appears to have been written by a five year old.
There is as always with a Mann film nice shiny things to look at, fast cars, fast boats, fast planes and fast women, but ultimately this film is far more filler than killer.
The trailer makes the film look action packed, it's not, more the pity, because Mann knows how to make clever action pictures when he's on form, Last of the Mohicans, Heat and Collateral all prove this, but sadly Miami Vice lacks any real punch.
Apart from his constant use of montages to fill out his movies, the other trait of Mann that annoys me is his choice of shots, there were so many shots purposely shot out of focus and badly rack-focused that I began to believe I might need glasses half way through.
The main " human story " revolves around Colin Farrell and Gong Li's love story, which to me was not only totally unbelievable but also lacked any real conviction. Hard nosed drug kingpin's moll falls head over heals for rogue drug dealing undercover cop, Gong Li's stilted english isn't that bad because the script is so torrid!
Anyway, rant over, please can we have the Michael Mann that directed Manhunter, Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Heat and Collateral back, and can we send the other one to MTV hell?
A dissapointment from Mann, a director who is more miss than hit these days!
Rating 1/5