oh yeah wrote:As unlikely as it seems, also, I'm far from alone in my adoration for Miami Vice. It seems like a large amount of film critics, particularly younger ones, really appreciate what Mann did; and the film ranked highly on countless best-of-00s lists by blogs and various other more prestigious publications (if this means anything, anyway). Like a lot of great films that baffled audiences upon release, I think consensus of it will only grow more positively with time.
I'm definitely one of those people who didn't like MV on my first viewing, but loved it when I re-watched it again recently. Back in '06 when it was released, I was big into '80's nostalgia, and went into the theatre thinking I would be watching a film with a lot of homages/nods to the original MV TV show. However, it turned out that it was completely different type of film. This was absolutely the right approach to take here, but I couldn't appreciate it at the time.
Now, it's become one of my favorite MM films - I rank it up there behind
Heat &
Thief.