MIAMI VICE

Michael Mann’s big-screen adaptation of the hit ’80s television series—famously pitched as “MTV Cops”—on which he was executive producer updates the show’s unbuttoned Miami Chic for the mid-aughts, replete with a massive opening needle drop of a Jay-Z and Linkin Park collabo. Sleazy sexy Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are detectives Crockett and Tubbs, salsa dancing, gliding through the city’s elegant freeways and across Biscayne Bay, loving hard and shooting straight when the time comes. What emerges is an achingly beautiful 21st-century portrait of pure professionalism as only Mann can deliver. It’s unlikely we’ll get a blockbuster this hot ever again.

"Still the peak of digital photography in movies. NOTHING else looks like this. This is one of the most lyrical, abstract and oblique films to come out of Hollywood. German expressionism gone digital - of course this puzzled many when it first came out, Mann is like a silent filmmaker here - pictures tell us a story before actors do. Moods are denoted by shades of colours in neon. And whole pools, waves of emotions revealed by the near-abstraction in the formations of a cloud." - Neil Bahadur

(Theatrical Cut)