If there’s been a common theme running through the films
of Michael Mann it’s been the presence of hard-working men determined and
expert in their professions. Think about Russell Crow and Al Pacino in The Insider, Pacino and Robert De Niro
in Heat – the cop and the criminal –
two sides of the same coin facing off against one another. “Miami Vice,” the hit TV series for which Mann
served as executive producer, though a bit lighter and more freewheeling than
his feature films, contains the initial germinating seeds of the same theme.
These seeds are brought to fruition in Mann’s feature film update of that same
series, this time with a hot new cast including Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.
