Miami Vice, the sorta kinda pseudo version
So, um, I watched Miami Vice. Well, it was called that. It was more like Miami Vice: The Cover Band, or perhaps, "Influenced by Miami Vice," or maybe, "Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell portraying a couple of vice cops who happen to work in the Miami area."
The soundtrack was okay until they had some cover artist (named Nonpoint, ironically) tackle "In the Air Tonight." What? The original version wasn't good enough to use? Heck, that was one of the groundbreaking aspects of the television show: that they used the real artists! Some of them even appeared on the show.
I didn't have high hopes going in, and truth be told, it wasn't completely terribad. I mean, if it hadn't had the Miami Vice label on it creating expectations, I might have found it a little more palatable. However, there was absolutely no chemistry between Foxx and Farrell; Foxx was good, but Farrell was just sort of a barely-animate guy in a suit saying some lines. Indeed, it seemed like they rewrote Crockett as Tubbs and Tubbs as Crockett, in a way. The script was slow in parts, too fast for credibility in others, and suffered from very trite dialogue here and there.
Let me say this: it was more Miami Vice than the last three Star Wars movies were Star Wars, but just barely, and if that's not damning with faint praise, then I don't know what is. I don't even feel like it was trying to impersonate the series -- just sort of took the names and a summarized concept (cops undercover in Miami) and put a lot of blue light on it.
The soundtrack was okay until they had some cover artist (named Nonpoint, ironically) tackle "In the Air Tonight." What? The original version wasn't good enough to use? Heck, that was one of the groundbreaking aspects of the television show: that they used the real artists! Some of them even appeared on the show.
I didn't have high hopes going in, and truth be told, it wasn't completely terribad. I mean, if it hadn't had the Miami Vice label on it creating expectations, I might have found it a little more palatable. However, there was absolutely no chemistry between Foxx and Farrell; Foxx was good, but Farrell was just sort of a barely-animate guy in a suit saying some lines. Indeed, it seemed like they rewrote Crockett as Tubbs and Tubbs as Crockett, in a way. The script was slow in parts, too fast for credibility in others, and suffered from very trite dialogue here and there.
Let me say this: it was more Miami Vice than the last three Star Wars movies were Star Wars, but just barely, and if that's not damning with faint praise, then I don't know what is. I don't even feel like it was trying to impersonate the series -- just sort of took the names and a summarized concept (cops undercover in Miami) and put a lot of blue light on it.