There’s not much I can add to Michael Mann’s excellent Miami Vice comments shared below and excerpted from this article at SFGate.com. It’s just really gratifying to see a director take his material seriously rather than go the Dukes, Starsky or Charlie’s Angels routes.
And I think I’ve got a reasonable answer why Mann chose to [...]

I’ve been cautiously, timidly excited about seeing Miami Vice, even though I’d go see the opening night of a high school Brigadoon production if Michael Mann were directing it. I was always sold on the idea of a new Mann crime drama; I just wasn’t sure that the Miami Vice title wasn’t weighed down by [...]

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