Writer-director Michael Mann took the visual road less traveled in this feature-film adaptation of the fabled 1980s TV series, a sleek, stylish crime drama drenched in color and light: Pink hotels, robin's-egg-blue skies and white beaches by day, neon-streaked streetscapes and glittering expanses of windows and water by night. Twenty-first century
Vice is a grimmer affair: Gone is the dreamy atmosphere of sun-kissed decadence, replaced by joyless business transactions that are punctuated by short, sharp shocking bursts of violence, and the pastel suits and shorts have been drained to slate, black and gray. The story, by contrast, is right out of the series pla...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
n/a