History Film / MiamiVice

In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets three Agents and a former Police informant killed. They decide to run transportation of cocaine into Miami for the cartel in order to get to the man running the Miami operation, [[BigBad Jose Yero]] (Creator/JohnOrtiz), and, later on, ''his'' boss, drug lord [[GreaterScopeVillain Arcangel de Jesus Montoya]] (Creator/LuisTosar). Complications arise as they get deeper into their undercover identities and Sonny falls in love with Isabella (Creator/GongLi), the accountant wife of Montoya.

%%* CoolGuns: As one would expect from a Michael Mann movie, pretty much ''everyone'' has their preferred firearm.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Yero is initially suspected to be the head of the Columbian cartel that's behind the Miami-based neo-Nazis. Later on, we learn that man is actually drug lord Arcangel de Jesus Montoya.

* ConspicuousConsumption: Crocker and Tubbs figure out that they are dealing with a top-drop drug dealer before they even see [[BigBad Montoya]] when they notice their cell phones are being jammed and they say it would take military/CIA-grade tech to do that (sure enough, Montoya's bodyguards have a huge SUV loaded with ELINT gear sweeping the nearby houses for surveillance during the meeting. Montoya himself arrives in a limo-converted SUV).

In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets three Agents and a former Police informant killed. They decide to run transportation of cocaine into Miami for the cartel in order to get to the man running the Miami operation, [[BigBad Jose Yero]] (John Ortiz), and, later on, ''his'' boss, drug lord [[GreaterScopeVillain Arcangel de Jesus Montoya]] (Luis Tosar). Complications arise as they get deeper into their undercover identities and Sonny falls in love with Isabella (Gong Li), the accountant wife of Montoya.

%%* DamselInDistress

** Still, it follows the same pattern of focusing on cold colors, ignoring the earth tones.
** This is more a result of the director's own preferences than anything else. Creator/MichaelMann tends to shoot his films in those tones, and he also worked on the series.
* DrivenToSuicide: In the movie, when the informant finds out about [[spoiler:his wife's death]], he walks in front of an oncoming semitrailer.

* PreMortemOneLiner: When the unit has to [[spoiler:rescue Trudy from the neo-Nazis that kidnapped her]], Gina corners one neo-Nazi using [[spoiler:Trudy]] as a human shield. Gina proceeds to explain to the neo-Nazi how [[ImprobableAimingSkills she can get one good shot]] that can sever the guy's spine in such a way to make sure he won't get ''his'' shot off in time and nails him with that one shot.
** This also serves as a [[ShoutOut Shout-Out]] to the "Glades" episode of the series.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillains: It's not bad enough the cartel's Stateside underlings are murderers and drug dealers; they're ''Aryan Brotherhood'' murderers and drug dealers.

In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets three Agents and a former Police informant killed. They decide to run transportation of cocaine into Miami for the cartel in order to get to the man running the Miami operation, Jose Yero (John Ortiz), and, later on, ''his'' boss, drug lord Arcangel de Jesus Montoya (Luis Tosar). Complications arise as they get deeper into their undercover identities and Sonny falls in love with Isabella (Gong Li), the accountant wife of Montoya.

* BittersweetEnding: Most of the major bad guys are killed [[spoiler:but the [[ManBehindTheMan real drug lord]] escapes before the overseas DEA can arrest him.]] Crockett [[spoiler:also has to let [[DidNotGetTheGirl Isabella go into hiding]], where he'll never see her again]]. But Rico's wife Trudy [[spoiler:appears to be coming out of her coma (much to Rico's relief) just as Crockett arrives at the hospital to check up on them]].

* DragonInChief: Yero, who's leading most of the drug smuggling ring.

%%* TheHeavy: Most of the conflict is on Yero.