Movie Review

We rented the 2006 movie Miami Vice last weekend and I needed all week to recover from the experience before visiting it in a review.

I picked it up for an action movie that would not require a lot of thought but be filled with car chases, shoot outs, bad guys and good guys. In effect, an action movie.

This was not an action movie. I want to call it a drama but melodrama would be more accurate. It felt like a two hour plus art house film more interested in film direction than entertainment. Poor film direction I might add. I normally don't fall asleep during movies but this one had my eyes drifting closed before the "big" finale where there was some "action". If you call a bunch of guys standing behind cars shooting at each other in the dark exciting action. Sigh.

In the end this movie was neither exciting nor interesting. It was a big bore and I would not recommend it to anyone. Avoid at all costs.