Michael Mann’s Miami Vice didn’t quite receive the reception it deserved on release. A reasonable box office return but middling reviews ensured that the film disappeared almost as quickly as it had arrived, with Mann seemingly unable to capitalise on the success of the TV show he had produced in the late 1980s.
Yet if any film from the mid 2000s were ripe for reappraisal then Miami Vice fits the bill. When popular Twitter user Brandon Streussnig jokingly tweeted last month that he would be showing his girlfriend his favourite film in what could be a ‘make-or-break’ move, the joke managed to cause a wild discourse that saw Michael Mann fans rushing to defend him and screenings popping up all over the US.
So in what may (or may not) become a season, we’ve decided to revisit the films of Michael Mann. Starting with 2006’s Miami Vice!
“A bold, powerful and irresistibly thrilling movie” Guardian ★★★★
Tuesday 27 August- Includes introduction from Left Lion Screen Editor Autumn Parker + a Free Mojito cocktail for the first 30 to book!
Directed by Michael Mann
With Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li
2hrs 7 mins | US 2006
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