I just revisited Miami Vice, Michael Mann’s mid-aughts update of the 1980s TV show. It’s moody, dark, not the sun-drenched sinful pastel city that the original 1980s TV show made famous. When it came out, it was trashed, but more recent reviews of it have lauded something that I didn’t initially clock the first time I saw it.
It was shot on video, a med…
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