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Miami Vice - Series 5 - Complete [1988]
ReviewsPure blinding genius for TV Review date: 2008-02-11 Rating: 8 out of 10 I was scared with the prospect of spending £28 for MV season 5 as i heard it was the worst season of all. Nonsense. This season 5 is the best season as it is not an unbalanced season unlike the others 1-4. It features two poor episodes unlike other MV seasons where you could get between 5 and 8 poor episodes. We (UK) laughed at Miami Vice years ago. However the joke is on us simply because the best of our TV is crap (case in point = Hotel Babylon) and in the USA they are churning out CSI and the Sopranos, 6 Feet Under etc.....who is the joke on now?? Anyhoo, Miami Vice 5 starts out with Sonny working on the other side of the Law in the first two episodes (directed by Don Johnson). Crockett assumed he was his drug dealer undercover alterego. The next episode features Castillo's personal life and showcases his character in the action very well. A few episodes later we come to "Bad timing" with Sonny recovering from his amnesia ordeals only to come up against two of the worst baddies ever in vice. Episodes like "Line of fire", "Borrasca", "To have and to hold", "Miami Squeeze" and "Asian cut" represent straightforward vice at its best. Take all of the episodes, and look at them as one large opus, which through drama, supported by music, fashion, and visuals, exhibited how draining and emotionally effecting the job of fighting crime was on under cover Police officers. This was mainly done with the character of Sonny, who started as a person who thought that right would always prevail, and who through loss of loved ones (through divorce, death, and corruption of the system which he had dedicated his life to) became a tired, emotionally drained, shell of the person that he once was. Rico Tubbs also goes through a simliar negative transformation. The visuals, music, tones, and colors of this show ever so slightly changed each season, as each character was beginning to be effected by the rising wave of crime & corruption that was overtaking Miami. Sonny was the focal point of this, but all characters showed its effect. I don't think that the actors were "riding things out"; I think this was all to show how exhausting the job can be! The absence of composer Jan Hammer is painfully felt and Tim Truman's commendable scoring gives it a very different overall feel compared to previous seasons and redundant plotlines involving South American drug smugglers had finally exhausted themselves but the payoff at the end of the final episode "Freefall" is emotional as the ensemble cast members say their goodbyes and go their seperate ways and almost as suddenly as Miami Vice had come to an end, so too had the fashionable decade of the 1980's. John Lennon said that before Elvis there was nothing. Of course, apart from a lot of teengroups, this was quite accurate. I would dare to say that for almost 20 years after Miami Vice there has been nothing on tv that could equal, let alone surpass it. Episodes of MV 5 "Miracle Man" and "Leap of Faith" are to be avoided. This is the best MV season. Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s): Philip Michael Thomas Edward James Olmos Donald Johnson Creators: Donald Johnson (Primary Contributor) Philip Michael Thomas (Primary Contributor) Recording label: Universal Pictures UK Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK EAN: 5050582501834 Binding: DVD Number of items: 6 Format: PAL, Release date: 2007-12-26 Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region code: 2 Running time: 1008 minutes Theatrical release date: 1988
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