{"id":1941,"date":"2006-08-15T22:30:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1941.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T17:09:02","slug":"miami-vice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2006\/08\/15\/miami-vice\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Miami Vice<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many action films these days are action comedies, and so many of the current glut of remakes tip knowing winks to the audience, that it came as a little bit of a surprise to find <em>no<\/em> humour whatsoever in <i>Miami Vice<\/i>.  No shared jokes, no snappy retorts, no witty one-liners as the heroes casually blow away the bad guys.  In fact, there&#8217;s not even any casualness.  This is a very <em>deliberate<\/em> and very intense movie.<\/p>\n<p>My two main criticisms are that the sound was muddy and unclear&#8211;I had a hard time following some of the dialogue&#8211;and that it peaked too early.  The hostage scene at the trailer park felt like the climax to me, rather than the big confrontation that followed it.  I still recommend it without hesitation, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many action films these days are action comedies, and so many of the current glut of remakes tip knowing winks to the audience, that it came as a little bit of a surprise to find no humour whatsoever in Miami Vice. No shared jokes, no snappy retorts, no witty one-liners as the heroes casually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1263,1260,1258,1142,1262],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-action","tag-colinfarrell","tag-jamiefoxx","tag-legendshome","tag-michaelmann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}