Miami Vice

I hated this movie. I really, really hated this movie. Here's the story. I went to NYC a couple of weeks ago to visit M. It was his pre-birthday weekend, so I went to celebrate and see his cute dog. I drove up on Saturday morning-traffic wasn't too bad until I got to Delaware-I think I could have walked through that part of the state faster than I drove through it, but I finally made it to Jersey. It was good-we went shopping, he went to the gym, I went shopping, we went to dinner and went to the movie. Union Square Cinemas, top level, long line, sold out. We had bought the tickets on line earlier, so no problem and we got decent seats.
Okay, I loved the TV show Miami Vice-it was cool and interesting and the acting was pretty good. (I'm still a little irritated that in all the Michael Mann interviews, he never mentions the late Brandon Tartikoff, whose phrase "MTV Cops" launched MV, but that's okay). This movie makes Don Johnson look like an Oscar caliber actor. Colin Farrell said his lines like English was NOT his first language and didn't know what the words meant. (He went into rehab right actor it finished shooting, so that may be an explanation). I couldn't buy a partnership between he and Jamie Foxx (who has lost A LOT of credibilty with me for doing this movie-he said his lines like he was being paid and just wanted to get out of there). I don't have a problem with violent movies-in fact, I prefer action movies to chick-movies, but the acting in this movie was not good enough to bring me along for the ride. There was clearly an intelligent mind behind it-it's just too bad that nobody lived up to it. And for Jamie to say this wasn't a violent movie...M (who hates violent movies) left. Twice. We met up after the show-but he missed the best part, which was the girl saying as we walked out "Worst movie ever! Am I right?" It wasn't, but it was pretty close. I would have forgiven them the whole thing if Edward James Olmos had been in it, but he wouldn't give up Battlestar Galactica for this piece of crap and who can blame him? I will say that Gong Li was beautiful and could really act, so I wasn't sure what she was doing in this movie-maybe trying to tell Hollywood that they should give her more and better parts?
We had a great time that weekend-most of it was really fun (we ignored the really awful movie except to insult it). And even though it was M's birthday, he gave me an EZ Pass and bought me a great pair of jeans, so that was fine with me.