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* CoolGuns: As one would expect from a Michael Mann movie, pretty much ''everyone'' has their preferred firearm.
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* AsYouKnow: Done as a joke with Nicholas, the MrExposition about how dangerous Jose Yero's group is. A joke Nicholas doesn't get.
-->'''Nicholas''': They are vertically integrated, they're...
-->'''Tubbs''': You mean they walk around with constant erections?
-->'''Nicholas''': No, they farm, process, produce, export...
-->'''Tubbs''': I know what it means.
-->'''Nicholas''': They are vertically integrated, they're...
-->'''Tubbs''': You mean they walk around with constant erections?
-->'''Nicholas''': No, they farm, process, produce, export...
-->'''Tubbs''': I know what it means.
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* MrExposition: Nicolas fills this role, explaining how dangerous Jose Yero's cartel is to the good guys. Then he has to set up a meeting between the good guys and Yero.
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* CoolGuns: As one would expect from a Michael Mann movie, pretty much ''everyone'' has their preferred firearm.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillains: It's not bad enough the cartel's Stateside underlings are murderers and drug dealers; they're ''Aryan Brotherhood'' murderers and drug dealers.
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** As with anything Creator/MichaelMann works on, attention is paid to realistic and skilled handling of firearms. It's notably one of the few movies to show the viewer ''exactly'' what a .50 BMG rifle [[LudicrousGibs can do to a human body... and the vehicle they're sitting in]].
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* MisplacedAccent: Isabella (played by Chinese actress Creator/GongLi) is supposed to be a second-generation Chinese-Cuban born and raised in Havana, yet speaks both English and Spanish in a very heavy Mandarin Chinese accent.
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* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].
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* 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... time and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].shot.
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* ShoutOut: The plot of the film shares some similarities with the TV episode "Smugger's Blues":
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** As with anything Creator/MichaelMann works on, attention is paid to realistic and skilled handling of firearms.
** The production was also a case where Michael Mann's insistence on authenticity went a little ''too'' far, such as putting Creator/ColinFarrell through an actual police sting (that was later admitted to be staged to see if he would react realistically). Mann also insisted on filming in unsafe weather and in actual gang-ran areas, with one such occurrence leading to ''actual'' gunfire being exchanged on-set.
* ShoutOut: The plot of the film shares some similarities with the TV episode"Smugger's "Smuggler's Blues":
** As with anything Creator/MichaelMann works on, attention is paid to realistic and skilled handling of firearms.
** The production was also a case where Michael Mann's insistence on authenticity went a little ''too'' far, such as putting Creator/ColinFarrell through an actual police sting (that was later admitted to be staged to see if he would react realistically). Mann also insisted on filming in unsafe weather and in actual gang-ran areas, with one such occurrence leading to ''actual'' gunfire being exchanged on-set.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell Creator/ColinFarrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs.
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* FakeNationality: Irishman Ciaran Hinds as the presumably Japanese-American FBI Agent John Fujima.
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* DragonInChief: Yero, who's leading most of the drug smuggling ring.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs.
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.
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
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''Miami Vice'' is a DarkerAndEdgier 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Gina goes from being a sassy brunette in the TV show to a quietly lethal blonde in the movie.
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** This is more a result of the director's own preferences than anything else. MichaelMann tends to shoot his films in those tones, and he also worked on the series.
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx Creator/JamieFoxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".
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* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].
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* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].shot]].
**This also serves as a [[ShoutOut Shout-Out]] to the "Glades" episode of the series.
**This also serves as a [[ShoutOut Shout-Out]] to the "Glades" episode of the series.
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* ProductPlacement: Very prominent in the movie. The actors drink Bacardi Mojitos, use Motorola phones and laptops and drive Donzi boats and a Ferrari F430.
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* {{Mangst}}: Sonny, especially at the end of the film. Rico has more TraquilFury.
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* CameraAbuse: There's gunk on the camera lens during the climatic shoot out.
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] MiamiVice starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and was MichaelMann's third most financially successful film, behind ''Film/{{Heat}}'' and ''Film/{{Collateral}}''.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and was MichaelMann's third most financially successful film, behind ''Film/{{Heat}}'' and ''Film/{{Collateral}}''.
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] MiamiVice ''Series/MiamiVice'' starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. 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.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and wasMichaelMann's Creator/MichaelMann's third most financially successful film, behind ''Film/{{Heat}}'' and ''Film/{{Collateral}}''.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and was
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''Film/{{Collateral}}''.
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** And [[spoiler:TheMole]], AND [[spoiler:Isabella, who, no matter how much Crockett may have loved her, was still an international drug trafficker. Except for killing some mid-level bad guys, the heroes didn't really accomplish very much in this movie.]]
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] MiamiVice starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets two 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.
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** Rico's line "We can close each others' eyes real fast, but then nobody's gonna make no money." is similar to the line he says in the TV series ("You and I are businessmen. We have business to look forward to which we will never see if we close each other's eyes.").
** Sonny's line "Why is he donating to the good and the welfare?".
** Both feature a subplot where [[spoiler: Trudy is held hostage in a trailer rigged with explosives.]]
** Rico's line "We can close each others' eyes real fast, but then nobody's gonna make no money." is similar to the line he says in the TV series ("You and I are businessmen. We have business to look forward to which we will never see if we close each other's eyes.").
** Sonny's line "Why is he donating to the good and the welfare?".
** Both feature a subplot where [[spoiler: Trudy is held hostage in a trailer rigged with explosives.]]
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''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] MiamiVice starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets two Agents and a former 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.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and was MichaelMann's third most financially successful film, behind {{Heat}} and {{Collateral}}.
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* BatmanGambit: In order to find out who's behind the neo-Nazis, Crockett and Tubbs rob from drug runners that had to be working with those Neo-Nazis to force the bad guys to contact them for work. Later on, they plant the stolen goods ''back'' with those drug runners to make an excuse that the cartel's got security issues and allow Crockett and Tubbs better access. All this so they can find out where the Mole is among the various agencies that were compromised at the start of the film.
* 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]].
** Also a NoEnding, as the suddenness of it feels like the camera ran out of film.
* DamselInDistress
* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie trades the bright pastel shades that defined the TV series for dark, gritty and modern digital video.
** 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. 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.
* InMediasRes: The theatrical cut has [[ColdOpen no opening credits]] and begins with Sonny and Rico in the middle of their sting on Neptune. The [[ReCut Unrated Director's Cut]] adds in an opening credits sequence that sets up the Neptune operation, among many other changes.
* KarmaHoudini: Neptune, the target of the sting at the beginning of the movie, gets away. The squad doesn't have anything on him and they can't pursue him immediately because of the informant leak.
-->'''Trudy''': But what about Neptune?
-->'''Rico''': It's Neptune's lucky night.
** Also, [[spoiler:Arcangel de Jesus Montoya]].
* 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.
* MoreDakka
* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].
* PornStache: What Colin Farrell wears for facial recognition instead of Don Johnson's PermaStubble. Unless there's a Trope for Fu Manchu mustaches...
* ProductPlacement: Very prominent in the movie. The actors drink Bacardi Mojitos, use Motorola phones and laptops and drive Donzi boats and a Ferrari F430.
* TitleCard: Similarly to Collateral, there's one only at the very end before the credits in the theatrical cut.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When the neo-Nazis target [[spoiler:the undercover [[FBIAgent FBI agents]] at the beginning of the film]] they leave little bodily evidence behind...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".
* WhatTheHellHero: Crockett gets called on by Tubbs for focusing more on Isabella than on catching the bad guys.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Later on in the movie, Montoya tells Isabella that Sonny and Rico will be killed at the end of their next job.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: In the movie, neo-Nazi gangbangers [[IHaveYourWife kidnap the wife of an informant]] and force him to compromise an undercover FBI operation. When the police arrive at the informant's house, [[spoiler: they find the wife [[ILied already dead]]]].
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[[caption-width-right:320:Let's take it to the limit one more time.]]
''Miami Vice'' is a 2006 [[TheFilmOfTheSeries film adaptation of the television series]] MiamiVice starring Colin Farrell as James "Sonny" Crockett and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs. In the film, Sonny and Rico are enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate a Colombian drug cartel after a botched undercover drug operation gets two Agents and a former 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.
Shot on location in the Carribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and South Florida, the film had a TroubledProduction from early on including lost filming to hurricanes and security issues that ultimately forced [[RealLifeWritesThePlot a complete rewrite of the ending]]. The film was released to mixed critical reviews but was relatively successful at the box office and was MichaelMann's third most financially successful film, behind {{Heat}} and {{Collateral}}.
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!!''Film/MiamiVice'' features examples of:
* BatmanGambit: In order to find out who's behind the neo-Nazis, Crockett and Tubbs rob from drug runners that had to be working with those Neo-Nazis to force the bad guys to contact them for work. Later on, they plant the stolen goods ''back'' with those drug runners to make an excuse that the cartel's got security issues and allow Crockett and Tubbs better access. All this so they can find out where the Mole is among the various agencies that were compromised at the start of the film.
* 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]].
** Also a NoEnding, as the suddenness of it feels like the camera ran out of film.
* DamselInDistress
* DarkerAndEdgier: The movie trades the bright pastel shades that defined the TV series for dark, gritty and modern digital video.
** 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. 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.
* InMediasRes: The theatrical cut has [[ColdOpen no opening credits]] and begins with Sonny and Rico in the middle of their sting on Neptune. The [[ReCut Unrated Director's Cut]] adds in an opening credits sequence that sets up the Neptune operation, among many other changes.
* KarmaHoudini: Neptune, the target of the sting at the beginning of the movie, gets away. The squad doesn't have anything on him and they can't pursue him immediately because of the informant leak.
-->'''Trudy''': But what about Neptune?
-->'''Rico''': It's Neptune's lucky night.
** Also, [[spoiler:Arcangel de Jesus Montoya]].
* 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.
* MoreDakka
* 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 [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nails him with that one shot]].
* PornStache: What Colin Farrell wears for facial recognition instead of Don Johnson's PermaStubble. Unless there's a Trope for Fu Manchu mustaches...
* ProductPlacement: Very prominent in the movie. The actors drink Bacardi Mojitos, use Motorola phones and laptops and drive Donzi boats and a Ferrari F430.
* TitleCard: Similarly to Collateral, there's one only at the very end before the credits in the theatrical cut.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: When the neo-Nazis target [[spoiler:the undercover [[FBIAgent FBI agents]] at the beginning of the film]] they leave little bodily evidence behind...
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: After a shooting incident on the Dominican Republic set, Jamie Foxx packed up and left, refusing to work outside the US. This forced a complete rewrite of the film's ending. While one crew member publicly stated that the revised ending was "much less dramatic", [[WordOfGod Mann]], who had written endings for both Miami and Paraguay considered it to be better because it "brought all the conflicting characters together in one arena".
* WhatTheHellHero: Crockett gets called on by Tubbs for focusing more on Isabella than on catching the bad guys.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Later on in the movie, Montoya tells Isabella that Sonny and Rico will be killed at the end of their next job.
* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: In the movie, neo-Nazi gangbangers [[IHaveYourWife kidnap the wife of an informant]] and force him to compromise an undercover FBI operation. When the police arrive at the informant's house, [[spoiler: they find the wife [[ILied already dead]]]].
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