Miami Vice
Michael Mann · 2006
Michael Mann’s 2006 Miami Vice is a digitally shot, atmospherically dense crime film starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as Miami-Dade detectives infiltrating a transnational drug operation. Shot on location across the Caribbean and South Florida, it trades the 1980s TV series’ stylisation for a muted, immersive realism — prioritising surveillance aesthetics, ambient sound, and moral ambiguity over exposition or catharsis. Though polarising on release, its reputation has grown for its formal rigour and sensory coherence.
