Quentin Tarantino's review of Miami Vice (2006)

From article “Cinematically Speaking…” by David Michael

Film Ink Magazine
August 2007
Page 15

When asked about which 2006 movie he liked the least, Quentin Tarantino responded:

“Now, hands down, the movie I hated the most of this last year was Miami Vice. That was a piece of shit! For so long, Michael Mann has been one of the truly great auteurs in Hollywood cinema, but I also thought that Collateral was a sell-out piece of shit. He was reeling from Ali, so he obviously wanted to make a movie with the biggest movie star in the world. So he gets the first script that comes along and it’s like a poor man’s Michael Mann script. Just so he can make a hit with Tom Cruise! So I thought, ‘Okay, he’ll get his shit together again on Miami Vice…’ [Gasps] Collateral is The Insider compared to Miami Vice! Miami Vice is one of the dumbest, most fucked-up, most uninvolving, no chemistry, ugly looking movies I’ve EVER seen in my life! I just had such a big emotional feeling about that film! That movie looked like such shit! That cinematographer [Oscar winning Aussie Dion Beebe] is so vastly untalented. I mean, that blue smeary shit? Apparently ugly is the new black!”