"CSI: Miami" Permanent Vacation (TV Episode 2007) Poster

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5/10
An Unbelievable (literally) family
ccthemovieman-130 September 2008
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A Canadian family vacationing in Miami has one of its members shot to death in an elevator just prior to leaving their hotel. Who did it, and why? At first glance, it looks like a solid, loving family but.....the story turns out to be ludicrous of this family portrayal. Trust me: nobody would act and talk like these people. It made for the first dumb episode of the season. Well, I'm not complaining because the preceding seven episodes have all been entertaining and not stupid, like this one.

The victim's father is the first ridiculous family character shown. The victim was one of his two teenage boys. Almost every sentence the father said was outrageous, something nobody would say,along with his actions and inflections. It was just really annoying. The odd thing is, the man disappears the second half of the show. We never see him again.

Unforuntately, the remaining brother and mother remain. The brother winds up almost killing a suspect, seriously injuring him by sneaking him and clubbing him numerous times with a blunt instrument. When interrogated by CSI later, the boy wonders why he would be in trouble for doing so? "The guy didn't die, so what's the problem?" he asks.

You see what I mean? All of this gets really out of hand in the final few minutes, so much so I'm not even going to give it credence by mentioning it. Oh well, no show is perfect and every once in awhile we get a clunker.
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1/10
No Canadian would EVER act like that
wesheald10 January 2019
I found the story line completely unbelievable! No Canadian would act like that! Have the writers ever been to Canada? Americans seem to think Canadians are just like Americans but with better health care. We're not. Canadians don't carry guns around and certainly not on vacation. A more believable ending would be to have the mother say 'Just get me out of this country!'
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3/10
A family of morons...
Valkonian24 September 2023
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I agree with the other reviewers when they describe the family here. Literally a family of morons.

As a family is about to leave their hotel to head home one of their sons goes back in the hotel and gets shot in the elevator. We find out it's gang-related, supposedly some initiation. Horatio and team to the rescue.

Dean Cain plays the family's father, who of course is super pissed. He causes problems for Horatio instead of letting Horatio do his job. They get a suspect but not enough evidence points to the guy, but to the father he "looks" like a gang-banger. "He definitely looks like a gang-banger" LOL.

SO of course the suspect gets beat up bad and everyone points to the dad but it was actually the OTHER son who looked up the dead brother. The father must have told the younger son. Dad = MORON #1 of the family. Then when the younger brother is being interrogated by Calleigh and Eric he seems completely oblivious to the fact that he committed a crime, like intent to commit murder. The moron doesn't realize he is being arrested and will probably be going to jail. MORON #2!

This leaves the mother. At the end the get the real "gang-banger" who is a complete loser and as he's being walked out of the station in cuffs the mother talks with Calleigh about how she "needs to talk to her son's killer" and Calleigh says I don't think that's a good idea.

The mother goes up and says you killed my son and shoots the gang banger. MORON #3 of the family!

Now the son who got killed we find out he was flirting with some blond who invited to her room but got broken up when her older boyfriend showed up. The reason the son went BACK into the hotel was because the boyfriend texted messaged him as the girlfriend saying she wanted to say bye. WHY would you honestly go back to that room after the boyfriend was apeshit at you for being there? And that brings us to the last moron of the family, the son who got killed, MORON #4. Every member of the family are MORONS.

Other than that the episode was pretty entertaining. Horatio shoots down a gangbanger who was about to shoot Delko.
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