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Miami Vice - Series 5 - Complete [DVD] [1988] 4.5 out of 5 stars (2)
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  • Actors: Donald Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Edward James Olmos
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 6
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Universal Pictures UK
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Dec 2007
  • Run Time: 1008 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000VPYUA0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,469 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Sizzling with sex and sin, Miami was the perfect setting for this classic 1980s cop show starring Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, and Edward James Olmos. From the minds of Michael Mann and Dick Wolf, this series used the MTV-influenced music and style to great effect. Johnson and Thomas play detective duo Crockett and Tubbs who pose as members of the city's criminal underworld as they battle their own inner demons. A generation of men took up the pastel-jacket-and-tee-shirt combo that Johnson and Thomas made famous. This release includes each episode from the final season with music from iconic artists such as Peter Gabriel, U2, the Cure, Guns N' Roses, and Peter Cetera.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Saving you some heartache and pain..., 20 May 2008
By A. Skarzynski "bisonkid" (London) - See all my reviews
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OK, so you wade through five long seasons of Miami Vice, enduring the substandard episodes in order to get to the gold-dust (Castillo mumbling enigmatically, yet another of Tubbs' love interests getting blown away within one episode, implausibly coiffured drug dealers holding meetings in derelict warehouses with subtle mood-lighting and smoke machines installed). Then at the end of disc five of the six DVD set you get what appears to be a final episode with a tearjerker farewell for Crockett and Tubbs and a montage of 5 seasons worth of Vice action.
Then there's disc six?
Due to some writer's strike at the time, the episodes on the final disc were aired after the season finale? Why the box set doesn't re-order them so the time-line is intact I don't know - observing some unwritten arcane law of TV-to-DVD release protocol perhaps? But do yourself a favour and switch discs 5 and 6 around.
I was inconsolable for a month when I realised I'd squandered the big finish early and was left with some below par throwaway episodes as my parting memory of MV. In my rage I almost ripped up my signed Edward James Olmos picture.
Surely the chronology of the story supersedes the order of TV broadcast? Make the switch, you'll thank me.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pure blinding genius for TV, 11 Feb 2008
By Brendan O. Clarke "brendoclarke" (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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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.
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