Review by Jake

Release Date: July 28th

Tagline: No Rules (wow. Original AND descriptive. How did we get so lucky?)

Synopsis: Vice detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs take on the Florida drug world. (IMDb.com)

Trailer Review: Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx play undercover detectives who infiltrate a drug ring to try and take it down. Or to try and take it over, I don’t know for sure. The trailer suggests that Crockett (Farrell) takes “it” too far, so far in fact that his superiors wonder if he is still a police officer or a drug cartel leader with a badge. He and Tubbs (Foxx) fight, shoot, car chase, and airplane chase (a first I think) their way to the top (of the preview), but the preview doesn’t tell you where the movie ends. Do they remain cops and take down the drug ring, or does it take a twist and they turn evil for the long haul. Or does the movie really end here or is their a sequel in the works (probably). When a trailer is vague, I always wonder if there is something the movie creators do not want you to know; either an incredible twist that makes the movie, or that their movie is terrible.

Trailer Verdict: The trailer its self was a vague descriptor of the movie. No shown real story line except that they are cops and they are undercover in a drug ring. No known (specific) conflict, nor any hints that the drug dealers know they are cops, which usually is a good conflict in a movie. I think the movie is trying to be sold by name power (everyone knows the name Miami Vice), cast power, director power, and nystalgic 80’s lovers who miss the show and want to see the movie.

Movie Verdict: I don’t see a real reason to see this movie. Ever. I’m not gonna say it is badly acted or directed. What I am saying is that 2 hours after it starts, is there anything I am going to have gained by seeing it? No outstanding action sequences, no original plot, no deeply philisophical moments, no down-right hilarious antics or quotable lines. $20 and 2 hours is asking alot for a remake of a terrible 80’s show that was better off with Don Johnson. Even $1 when it comes out on DVD is too much, says I. Bad Boys (rented for $1 at your local video store or on TBS every weekend) is a better movie to see instead. It brings more to the table (action, comedy, and a decent plot), and is similar in so many ways; two cops in Miami fighting a drug cartel, car chases, etc.

Trailer: www.Apple.com

Plugs: 2 From Director Michael Mann, who brought you “Collateral” and “Heat” (10 years ago).

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