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• Crime/detective
• Action

• 2006
• Michael Mann
• 126 mins
• 15

Summary

Action crime thriller based on the classic 1980s TV series, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. The personal and professional lives of undercover cops Crockett and Tubbs get dangerously intertwined as they close in on the head of a sophisticated drug smuggling organisation.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Alan Jones

Writer/director Michael Mann returns to the scene of his 1980s pop culture classic here but with grittier, darker intentions. Mann executive produced the TV series between 1984 and 1989, and presents a TV episode plotline that is overblown with garbled confusion. The same old hard-bitten cops, Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx), go undercover to infiltrate a sophisticated drug cartel when an FBI sting backfires horribly. To add to the dramatic flavour, Crockett falls for money launderer Isabella (Gong Li, here struggling with her lines) and Tubbs's girlfriend (Naomie Harris) is kidnapped, leading to a sensationally staged assault in a trailer park. Mann reunites with Collateral cinematographer Dion Beebe to use an arrestingly grainy high-definition camera-style that gives potent immediacy to the action. Serious and seriously violent, the film will have Mann fans applauding his decision to axe the pastels and neon of the TV series for a harder attitude and updated style, though others may not be so forgiving of the unintelligible dialogue and lack of ending. To add to the disappointment, the morose Farrell/Foxx partnership isn't even as memorable as that of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

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6.1/10

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rolenameSonny CrockettColin Farrell (2)Ricardo TubbsJamie FoxxIsabellaGong Li MontoyaLuis TosarTrudy JoplinNaomie HarrisFBI Agent FujimaCiarán HindsLieutenant Martin CastilloBarry "Shabaka" HenleyZitoJustin TherouxJose YeroJohn Ortiz (1)Detective Gina CalabreseElizabeth RodriguezNeptuneIsaach de BankoleNicholasEddie MarsanAlonzo StevensJohn Hawkes

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rolenameDirectorMichael Mann

Details

Theatrical distributor

UIP

Released on

2006-08-04

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sex scenes, nudity.

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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