Supreme Cmdr Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 Don't even bother. The only good thing I have to say about this movie, is....wait, scratch that. I can't think of anything good. If you're a Mann fan, go see it. But with much lowered expectations. Otherwise, wait for the DVD. This was a movie made out of ego and it shows. It was just plain bad. Even the end battle which should have had Mann's signature, came out as a total flop and anti-climatic. I was so dissapointed, I'm considering boycotting Mann for the next couple of years. 5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrivener Posted July 30, 2006 Report Share Posted July 30, 2006 I thought it was very good. You're right about the end shootout, though. It seemed like it was filmed entirely with $300 VHS camcorders and really didn't feel very tense, exciting or... well, anything. It was very meh and anticlimactic. The rest of the movie was infused with a sense of danger that I really admired. Mann has certainly done better (Collateral, Heat, Last of the Mohicans) but I still loved it. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 HEAT had the best shootout of any film I've ever seen. In fact, I just got through watching it again. Man, that was intense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aramike Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 "Heat" should go down on the all-time-best-shootout-list, as far as I'm concerned. You know what I think made it so good? Sound. They didn't try to throw crappy, over-dramatic music in and didn't use use "studio" recordings of gunshot sounds. Instead it had a very "natural" effect. Heh, I wish MORE directors will figure out that a shootout is intense enough to not have to add other, distracting BS. Now, as for Miami Vice, I'm gonna take Derek's word on this one. Even from the trailers this flick looks like yet another mindless action film. I grew out of those roughly at the age of 18. My only question, though, is if it THAT bad, isn't a "5" a little too nice of a score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 Yes, its that bad. At least to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrivener Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 There wasn't really a whole lot of action in it. At least not in the shootout sense. Tons of sex, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted August 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2006 So Miami Vice has flopped at the box office. Thats what happens when you take a beloved franchise and go f*ck with it. I'm so pissed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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