Miami Vice Review in NRO
I’m in NRO this morning with a review of director Michael Mann’s new Mann-tastic (which is not the same thing, I'll note, as fantastic) movie, Miami Vice. Here's an appetizer:
What’s in a name? For Michael Mann, a lot. For more than two decades, the director has followed his last name’s lead and muscled into multiplexes with serious movies about serious men. Smartly tapping into the alpha-male psyche, Michael Mann gets brainy about brawn. Now, with Miami Vice, he’s let loose yet another man crush (or should that be Mann crush?) on yet another pair of swaggering, surly rogues, this time played by Hollywood diva boys Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx. And once again, Mann’s men are too cool for school, blazing through the film in six-figure sports cars and luxury speedboats while dolled up in Armani. In Miami Vice, the clothes make the men, and the men make the movie.Read the whole thing at National Review Online.
posted by Peter @ 7/28/2006 08:36:00 AM
3 Comments:
I would've said the same thing before I saw Miami Vice. But watch that movie and Bad Boys II -- Mann is clearly a much, much better filmmaker, but it's spooky how similar the films are.
Your riff on Foxx's "Let's take it to the limit one more time." is highly ironic given that it's an exact quote from the Eagle's song "Take It To The Limit" written (co-written?) by Glenn Frey who was tied to the original show. Coincidence or backhanded homage? Either way....
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