Those fears are soon realized as Trudy, the unit's intelligence agent and Rico's girlfriend, is kidnapped by the Aryan Brotherhood on Yero's order, who never trusted Crockett and Tubbs. Tubbs begins to fear for the team's safety with Crockett's fling. Afterwards, Crockett and Isabella discuss the possibility and impossibility of running away together. At a club, the two dance closely, observed by Yero. Meanwhile, Crockett tries to gather further evidence from Montoya's financial adviser and lover, Isabella, but ends up starting a secret romance with her while on a trip by speedboat to Cuba. In the course of their investigation, Crockett and Tubbs learn that the cartel is using the Aryan Brotherhood to distribute drugs, and is supplying them with state-of-the-art weaponry (which they had used to kill the Russian undercovers). After a high-tension meeting, they pass screening and are introduced to Arcángel de Jesús Montoya, transnational drug trafficking kingpin. Posing as highly skilled drug smugglers, Sonny and Rico offer their services to Yero, the cartel's security and intelligence man. They then coerce their Miami informant contact Nicholas into setting up a meet-and-greet with the cartel. They continue the investigation by looking into go-fast boats coming from the Caribbean, delivering loads of narcotics from the Colombians. Fujima enlists Crockett and Tubbs, making them Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force deputies, to lead a deep undercover operation. is highly sophisticated and run by José Yero, initially thought to be the cartel's leader.
Fujima reveals that the Colombian group part of the A.U.C. Crockett and Tubbs berate Fujima for the errors committed and inquire as to why the MDPD wasn't involved. He tells them to meet him downtown, where they are introduced in person to Fujima, head of the Florida Joint Inter-Agency Task Force between the FBI, the DEA, and ICE. Martin Castillo and are instructed to stay away. Hearing this, the grief-stricken Stevens commits suicide by walking in front of an oncoming semi truck.Įn route to the murder scene, Sonny and Rico receive a call from Lt. Rico, learning of Leonetta's death by telephone call, tells Alonzo that he doesn't have to go home. Stevens reveals that a Colombian cartel had become aware that Russian undercovers (now dead) were working with the FBI, and had threatened to murder Leonetta via a C-4 necklace bomb if he didn't confess. Tracking down Stevens through a vehicle transponder and aerial surveillance, Crockett and Tubbs stop him along I-95. Crockett learns that Stevens was working as an informant for the FBI but has been compromised.Ĭrockett and Tubbs quickly contact FBI Special Agent in Charge John Fujima and warn him about Stevens' safety. Stevens reveals that he's leaving town, and, believing his wife Leonetta to be in immediate danger, asks Rico to check on her. While working an undercover prostitute sting operation in a nightclub to arrest a pimp named Neptune, Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alonzo Stevens. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for Mann's directing and visual style and criticism for the hard-edged storyline, though in subsequent years, its reputation among critics and filmmakers has grown, with critic Steven Hyden writing in 2016 that the film had become a cult favorite. It grossed $164.2 million worldwide on a reported $135 million budget. It was released in the United States on July 28, 2006, and in Germany on August 24, 2006. Miami Vice premiered in Los Angeles on July 20, 2006. Like Collateral, which also starred Foxx, most of the film was shot with the Thomson Viper Filmstream Camera, while Super 35 was used for high-speed and underwater shots.
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This led Mann to revisit the series he co-produced. The supporting cast features Naomie Harris, Barry Shabaka Henley, John Ortiz, Luis Tosar, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Rodriguez, John Hawkes, Justin Theroux, Isaach De Bankolé, Eddie Marsan, and Tom Towles.įoxx brought up the idea of a Miami Vice film to Mann during a party for Ali. The film is an adaptation of the 1980s television series of the same name, on which Mann was an executive producer, and follows detectives Crockett and Tubbs, who go undercover to fight drug trafficking operations. Miami Vice is a 2006 neo-noir buddy cop action thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Michael Mann and starring Colin Farrell as MDPD detective James "Sonny" Crockett, Jamie Foxx as Crockett’s partner Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs, and Gong Li as Isabella.
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