Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on August 03, 2006 at 09:51:20

In Reply to: Miami Vice at a matinee -- it was OK. posted by clarkjohnsen on August 2, 2006 at 08:19:27:

Miami Vice bears the name of the Eighties television series -- fighting crime and looking cool doing it -- for the same reason that the social striver might don Armani. The drug sting in the film could have been pulled off by anybody, not exclusively Sonny and Rico and Co. If you're going to jettison the theme music and the ice-cream color scheme, why retain the proper names? Or to ask it another way, who wants a revisionist Miami Vice? You might as well just settle for Jacksonville Vice. The storytelling, in other words, is strictly generic...

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