Then there is the look of the film, which is probably one of the few true highlights the movie has to offer.
The romance in the film is so superficial and stretched that it becomes tedious after the first encounter while the filmmakers keep adding it on even though even the slowest viewer will have figured out by the first Mojito how this thing will ultimately turn out. It is all smooth – and predictable – sailing. Crockett and Tubbs infiltrate a drug smuggling ring but we never get the sense that they are truly in danger or that their mission could actually fail. There is no suspense, there is no real perceived sense of danger and only the bitter-sweet ending is a real "Miami Vice" throwback. In "Miami Vice" the movie there is very little for the viewer to care about – the action is strangely distant. No one who saw it can forget Zito's death, for example, in a multi-episode story arch that became a landmark for the entire series. The "Miami Vice" TV series had same brutally intense episodes that went deep and worked not only on a suspense level but also on an emotional level. Sadly the story doesn't fare much better.
So with the cast of characters broken the film immediately begins to limb. Sonny has turned into an unshaven slob who is overly vicious and "unclean" while Foxx's frozen grim demeanor simply doesn't match the good-humored warmth and calculation that set Tubbs apart. Now, both of them are fine actors, but their portrayal of the characters we have loved and cherished for so many years is so contradicting what they stood for that it is impossible to accept them. While we are quickly thrown back into the Miami Vice flair by the powerboat racing in front of the Miami Beach skyline, as soon as Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx enter the scene the illusion breaks. It is hard to imagine "Miami Vice" without Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas and Edward James Olmos so the first obstacle the filmmakers had to overcome was establish the new cast – which turns out to be one of the film's biggest problems.
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