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Season 5 December 2, 2008 Brendan O. Clarke (Edinburgh) 6 out of 10 found this review helpful
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.
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br /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??
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br /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.
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br /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.
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br /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.
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br /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!
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br /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.
br /This is the best MV season.
Shame its not in Widescreen December 27, 2007 Brian Carson (London UK) 14 out of 27 found this review helpful
Episodes comprise:
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br /1. Brother's Keeper (Parts 1 2)
br /2. Heart of Darkness
br /3. Cool Runnin'
br /4. The Hit List
br /5. Calderone's Demise
br /6. One-Eyed Jack
br /7. No Exit (a.k.a. Three-Eyed Turtle)
br /8. The Great McCarthy
br /9. Glades
br /10. Give a Little, Take a Little
br /11. Little Prince
br /12. The Milk Run
br /13. Golden Triangle (Part 1) (a.k.a. Score)
br /14. Golden Triangle (Part 2)
br /15. Smuggler's Blues
br /16. Rites of Passage
br /17. The Maze
br /18. Made for Each Other
br /19. The Home Invaders
br /20. Nobody Lives Forever
br /21. Evan
br /22. Lombard
br /23. The Prodigal Son (1 2)
br /24. Whatever Works
br /25. Out Where The Buses Don't Run
br /26. The Dutch Oven
br /27. Buddies
br /28. Junk Love
br /29. Tale of the Goat
br /30. Bushido
br /31. Bought and Paid For
br /32. Back in the World
br /33. Phil the Shill
br /34. Definitely Miami
br /35. Yankee Dollar
br /36. One Way Ticket
br /37. Little Miss Dangerous
br /38. Florence Italy
br /39. French Twist
br /40. The Fix
br /41. Payback
br /42. Free Verse
br /43. Trust Fund Pirates
br /44. Son and Lovers
br /45. When Irish Eyes Are Crying
br /46. Stone's War
br /47. Kill Shot
br /48. Walk-Alone
br /49. The Good Collar
br /50. Shadow in the Dark
br /51. El Viejo
br /52. Better Living Through Chemistry
br /53. Baby Blues
br /54. Streetwise
br /55. Forgive Us Our Debts
br /56. Down for the Count: Part 1
br /57. Down for the Count: Part 2
br /58. Cuba Libre
br /59. Savage
br /60. Theresa
br /61. The Afternoon Plane
br /62. Lend Me an Ear
br /63. Red Tape
br /64. By Hooker by Crook
br /65. Knock, Knock, Who's There?
br /66. Viking Bikers from Hell
br /67. Everybody's in Showbiz...
br /68. Heroes of the Revolution
br /69. Contempt of Court
br /70. Amen...Send Money
br /71. Death and the Lady
br /72. The Big Thaw
br /73. Child's Play
br /74. God's Work
br /75. Missing Hours
br /76. Like a Hurricane
br /77. The Rising Sun of Death
br /78. Love at First Sight
br /79. A Rock and a Hard Place
br /80. The Cows of October
br /81. Vote of Confidence
br /82. Baseballs of Death
br /83. Indian Wars
br /84. Honor Among Thieves?
br /85. Hell Hath No Fury
br /86. Badge of Dishonor
br /87. Blood Roses
br /88. A Bullet for Crockett
br /89. Deliver Us from Evil
br /90. Mirror Image
br /91. Hostile Takeover (3)
br /92. Redemption in Blood (4)
br /93. Heart of Night
br /94. Bad Timing
br /95. Borrasca
br /96. Line of Fire
br /97. Asian Cut
br /98. Hard Knocks
br /99. Fruit of the Poison Tree
br /100. To Have and to Hold (a.k.a. Second Chance)
br /101. Miami Squeeze
br /102. Jack of All Trades
br /103. The Cell Within
br /104. The Lost Madonna
br /105. Over the Line
br /106. Victim of Circumstance
br /107. Freefall (1 2)
br /108. World of Trouble
br /109. Miracle Man
br /110. Leap of Faith
br /111. Too Much, Too Late
Great!!! all seasons in one Box Set December 10, 2008 Mr. Pa Wallis 2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I grew up watching miami vice,this is worth buying in this great box set
br /from seasons one to five on 32 discs.so I would recommend to any fan
br /of the 80's series to buy the box set instead of each box set 1 to 5
G8t Box set February 9, 2009 Mrs. Karen Brookes (UK) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought these DVD's for my husband for christmas and loves them. Well worth the money if your a fan.
Best Buy !! March 24, 2009 Nikolaos Kontos (Athens Greece) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fun or not the complete collection of Miami Vice worths every pennie.
br /Miami Vice is one of the best TV series of the 80's that every fun or collector must add his collection.
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br /I recommend the collection to every future buyer.
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