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37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceScott FoundasVillage VoiceScott FoundasMann has done something transformative with Farrell: The Irish actor has never had this much charisma and natural authority in a role, and as he navigates that gray area between Crockett's real identity and his fabricated one, revealing subtle fissures in the character's cocksure facade, he's fascinating to watch.
- 83The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWhile it never approaches the richness and gravity of a great Mann film like "Heat," Miami Vice blurs the thin blue line to similar effect, and he features a couple of bravura setpieces, including a tense raid on an enemy hideout and a shootout with chaotic, you-are-there immediacy. If only all summer movies were this majestically slight.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt's a sensational trip -- gorgeous, gaga.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe two best words to describe the 2006 motion picture Miami Vice are "stylish" and "intense."
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs entertaining as some of it is, is so cool that it's almost too cool. It takes the sin, and much of the juice, out of vice.
- 70VarietyBrian LowryVarietyBrian LowryUnlike most TV-to-movie transitions, Mann returns to his roots and delivers what amounts to a slightly overblown episode, brimming with style and characteristically short on substance.
- 60The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyIt's about guns and sex and fast boats, and, baffling as it is at times, it's still the kind of brutal fantasy that many of us relish a great deal more than yet another aerated digital dream.
- 60TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelDark, detailed and only really gets going when the gunplay starts.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA darker, grittier creature that, while benefiting considerably from Dion Beebe's HD cinematography, is a frustratingly inert affair -- a long and talky excursion that fails to engage the viewer from the outset.
- 50NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenIt's filled with Mann's signature macho verisimilitude, but essentially it's the stuff of what, in saner fiscal times, would have been a B movie. Miami Vice delivers the thrills, atmosphere and romance it promises, but it doesn't resonate like major Mann.