A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Cinematography
Digital video that looks like expensive perfume at 3am.
Direction
Mann's hyper-specific tactical fetishism in full effect.
Score
Audioslave and Mogwai somehow coexist. It works?
Director
Michael Mann
Colin Farrell
Det. James 'Sonny' Crockett
Jamie Foxx
Det. Ricardo 'Rico' Tubbs
Naomie Harris
Det. Trudy Joplin
Gong Li
Isabella
John Ortiz
José Yero
Ciarán Hinds
FBI Agent John Fujima
Justin Theroux
Det. Larry Zito
Barry Shabaka Henley
Lt. Martin Castillo
Elizabeth Rodriguez
Det. Gina Calabrese
John Hawkes
Alonzo Stevens
Eddie Marsan
Nicholas
Luis Tosar
Arcángel de Jesús Montoya
Domenick Lombardozzi
Det. Stan Switek
Isaach de Bankolé
Neptune
Tom Towles
Coleman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Farrell and Foxx reportedly stopped speaking during production; Mann leaned into the tension.
Shot on the Thomson Viper digital camera—Mann's obsession with digital noir aesthetics that started with Collateral reaches peak swampiness here.
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