Michael Mann's 2006 film adaptation of Miami Vice, which flopped commercially and critically on release, has been reassessed over the past 20 years and is now regarded by many critics as a masterpiece. Where the original 1980s TV series was defined by pastel suits and shoulder pads, Mann's film stripped away the glamour in favour of a darker, grittier aesthetic, reflecting a more uncompromising, post-9/11 world.

Starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx as detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs, the film dispensed with the buddy-cop banter of the show and instead followed an international drugs-trafficking plot spanning Haiti, Paraguay and Cuba. Mann shot it using early HD cameras, producing a distinctive fuzzy, digital look that seemed startling at the time but now appears remarkably ahead of its era, capturing action sequences and nocturnal cityscapes in striking detail. Gong Li co-stars as cartel figure Isabella in a film critics now call "genius" and a "demented masterwork".