Jeffrey Speicher is a Senior Features Writer and List Writer for Collider. He is a screenwriter as well as a film and television buff. He lives in Dallas, Texas, but can't stand the Cowboys. His crime novel, "The Snitch" is available on Amazon.
There were several expectations for Miami Vice when it was announced that a movie remake was slotted for release in 2006. For Gen-Xers who grew up with the seminal television series of the 1980s, there were expectations of bright, sea-foam-colored tees underneath sports coats with rolled-up sleeves, big cash for drug swaps, and an abundance of the art deco architectural style that defines the exotic South Florida locale.
From the very opening sequence, where Crockett and Tubbs are tailing a suspected human trafficking suspect through a posh Miami nightclub, we know immediately that we are in for a unique experience. Mann was still going to use gritty, hardscrabble characters. Still, it is evident that he really wanted to pick up the tempo of both the musical score and the cinematography.
'Miami Vice' Has an International Flavor That Works Shooting in the Caribbean, Uruguay, Paraguay, and South Florida, the cast of Miami Vice is made up of a wide array of people from a bevy of different countries. Sonny Crockett's love interest in the film, Isabella , is a brilliant Chinese Cuban money manager and has a significant supporting role in the film.
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