Miami Vice on SolarTV

MANILA, Philippines - Writer-director Michael Mann updates the groundbreaking Miami Vice he created in the ‘80s with this stylish thriller. The TV series will be shown tonight at 9 on SolarTV’s Big Ticket.

Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) and Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) are two police detectives working undercover in Florida; Tubbs is smart, cool and resourceful while Crockett has his own way of doing things, though he stays close enough to the rules to stay out of trouble. Their latest assignment is to get the goods on Arcangel de Jesus Montoya (Luis Tosar), a local drug kingpin whose men are believed to be responsible for a handful of recent murders. To infiltrate Montoya’s operation, Tubbs and Crockett pose as powerboat racers willing to use their talents to pilot drug-smuggling ships for the right price.

The detectives’ ruse works, but they dig deeper into Montoya’s inner circle, they become involved in a dangerous operation that will take them to Haiti and Cuba, where neither the Miami Police Force nor the United States government can help them if things go wrong. Crockett also begins walking a risky path when he begins an affair with Isabela (Gong Li), a woman high up in Montoya’s organization. Miami Vice marked Michael’s third consecutive directorial effort with Jamie after Ali and Collateral.