Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs infiltrate an international drug cartel. As Sonny develops a dangerous relationship with Isabella, emotional involvement collides with professional duty.
A re-imagining of the television series, Miami Vice stands as one of Michael Mann's boldest formal experiments and arguably his greatest achievement. Its radical use of digital cinematography is pushed to expressive extremes, yielding some of the most texturally immersive images ever captured in the medium. In this sensory onslaught, conventional narrative markers like plot mechanics and expository dialogue recede into irrelevance. What remains is pure cinematic experience that approaches the sublime.