Thus, the movie begins proper with Crockett and Tubbs being deputized as Feds and working to bring down the Cartel and the White Supremastics responsible for the deaths of Alonso and his wife, friends of theirs. Upon meeting with Miami FBI, Sonny and Rico learn that the operation was an inter-agency effort…but Miami Dade was not part of the sting. Alonso loses his family and ultimately takes his own life due to the guilt of giving up the undercover Russians. In short, the CI, Alonso Harris, was made and confessed all the details of the operation to the White Supremacist gang working the deal. Again, there is minimal exposition here, and you feel as lost as Sonny and Rico do. While in the middle of their operation, Sonny gets a call from a confidential informant he used to run who was passed to the FBI. You’re entering their world and they’re not going to accommodate you, so keep up. If you feel a little lost with the terminology and lingo, that okay as long as you’re committed to adapt. Everything feels deliberate and grounded. Miami Vice can sometimes feel more like a docu-drama than it does a piece of entertainment. That’s the first indication as to how this movie will play out. But with the music and how subtly the interaction happens, with the lingo and the fake smiles, this may not be so obvious. Neptune, of course, refuses to be paid upfront. He plays the role of a John and attempts to pay a pimp named Neptune upfront, thus incriminating him and ending the case. One of the officers undercover, Stan Switek, isn’t revealed to be Miami Dade until later into the scene. It’s intentional disorientating, especially given that the sting is taking place at a busy club. We’re not given much in the way of context, nor do we know all the players right away. Whether you watch the director’s cut or not (and it doesn’t make much difference I find), the movie more or less throws you into the deep end when it comes to the opening. The film adaptation stars Colin Farrell as James “Sonny” Crocket and Jamie Foxx as Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs, two Miami Dade Police Officers who start the film working a prostitution ring on their home turf.
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