I'm not sure what I expected out of this movie. I knew it was set in modern day Miami, not the 1980s Miami of the television series. What about that show was it's signature? I mean not counting all of the 80s stuff. Take out the clothes and the music and you're left with a cop who lives on a boat with his alligator and his partner who is slightly more responsible and in a relationship. You have a bunch of hard as nails detectives and undercover cops who back up Crockett and Tubbs even if they don't always agree with them or even know the reason why.
You update Crockett and go from hipster to mustaches guy? What the hell was up with Colin Farrell's hair? He has this 70s porn star facial hair thing going on and longish hair that is usually blown back of slicked back and looks like a mullet. Tubbs as portrayed by Jamie Foxx was cool though.
Farrell's hair is really my only complaint about this film. Well, that and it wasn't Miami Vice. It was a better than average action film set in Miami about a couple of undercover cops who start out to bust a narcotics ring and end up taking down an International drug lord's lieutenant who is also a killer.
Gong Li as Isabella and Naomi Harris as Trudy Joplin were great as the two female love interests. They were as tough as their male counterparts, though they didn't get to shoot anybody.
I'm not sure why this was the Director's Cut. Typically when a director does a cut, they are putting back scenes that the censors and/or producers have taken out. The film was rated R, and I didn't see anything in this film that would have changed that, in fact it was noticeable how out of their way they went to not show any nudity. Maybe the director took out some of that? The movie did feel long, though and I'm guessing that the scenes of Sunny and Isabella in Cuba were added in. They add quite a bit to Crockett's character though, so I don't really mind.
This was not a bad film at all, but would it have killed them to put in at least a couple of seconds of the Axel F theme?
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