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Article: Michael Mann brings Miami Vice to the big screen.(Entertainment)
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- Cape Times (South Africa)
- Article date:
- August 11, 2006
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BYLINE: Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES: Director Michael Mann ushers Miami Vice into theatres today promising a reality-based movie with the sort of raw grit and steamy sex that never would have played on the hit 1980s television show of the same name he helped create.
Yes, Miami Vice is back and so are its police detectives Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett, but gone are the easy-going manners of their former actors Philip Michael Thomas (Tubbs) and Don Johnson (Crockett).
In their place come tight-lipped, undercover tough guys Jamie Foxx (Tubbs) and Colin Farrell (Crockett). These two new partners rarely make wisecracks because they are too ...