Miami Vice - Season Four
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Movie Reviews of Miami Vice - Season Four
Movie Review: Miami Vice - Season 4
Summary: 4 Stars
Sometimes, this season is considered the weakest season but in my opinion it features many of what would be my favorite episodes. The first few episodes are rather run of the mill - though "Amen .. send money" is a great episode but is different to other MV - and certainly "The big thaw" is terrible, but "Child's play" and "God's work" are very strong and inventive episodes. "Missing hours" is often cited as the worst episode of all but while this is clearly not MV in style, it is the kind of stuff people would be watching later on "Twin peaks" or "X-Files". I like the Caitlin Davies episodes (Crockett's revenge on Frank Hackman - that episode is one of the best ever MV episodes imo) and "Mirror image", where Sonny loses his mind after his Caitlin's death. "Bad of dishonor", "Indian wars" and "Hell hath no fury" are great action-packed episodes. The anti-Pinochet episode "Baseballs of death" is not only fiction but shows the kind of people the West supported against communism (this is the best political episode since "Stones war" in season 3).
The only problem with season four is there are about 4 very pointless episodes (the boring "Vote of confidence", the ridiculous "Cows of October" and "The big thaw" and - if you want to - "Missing hours" (the strongest of these 4 actually!)) that sometimes were back to back. The fact that the season also had many of the best episodes ever is not well known as a result.
Movie Review: Hit or miss but still fun for fans
Summary: 4 Stars
Miami Vice is to me (a new fan) one of the best shows ever made with its first three seasons. The first two exemplified a new style, but remained a focused and well made television show that transcends its famed style and was a great show. The third season made things a little darker and a little more real, losing the style to a certain extent, most likely hoping to establish itself as a show with substance over style. With season 4, the show was at a bit of a cross-roads, strugling greatly with the chance to be taken more seriously beyond the label of MTV Cops. The focus was less team/partner oriented and more single character based (usually), and the popular songs are greatly toned down. While it turned up some winners, it turned up some clunkers as well. With the clunkers the problem was repeating already established themes and stories (crokect not wanting to testify, Gina with men in...poor situations), as well as stories that were just plain silly (cryo-frozen jamaican?). However, amongst this was some really great episodes, and some real surprisingly dark turns. Crocket went darker than I ever expected, and did it surprisingly well. Ultimately, this season still was fun, and easily recomended for Miami Vice fans. Though flawed, with some clunkers, it was still fun to watch, and I can't wait for the fifth season.Movie Review: Miami Vice Season Four
Summary: 4 Stars
Miami Vice has always been one of my favorite TV action series. Beside the great parts of Tubbs & Crockett, there is the music of the time which is always well chosen for the situation. I now have the complete series and will
enjoy them in the years to come.
Movie Review: MIAMI VICE LOSES ITS TOUCH
Summary: 3 Stars
This 1987-88 Season of MIAMI VICE was only a so-so season and the season when this police drama started going stale & was starting to lose their touch since they seemed to have run out of ideas to make this show interesting to watch along with the fact that this is the season when Crockett's wife Caitlyn(Sheena Easton)dies off, plus the ratings were starting to fizzle too and you could tell that this show was going downhill and that Don Johnson(Crockett)and Philip Michael-Thomas(Tubbs)were getting tired on top of that, especially Don Johnson along with the fact that MIAMI VICE was obviously no longer in its honeymoon phase of the show anymore on top of that.
Therefore less and less people kept tuning in to watch this police drama every Friday night during MIAMI VICE's last 2 seasons on NBC along with the fact that this was probably the second weakest season of them all throughout MIAMI VICE's whole 5-year run on NBC since this show was obviously already running out of steam, despite Don Johnson's sexiness along with the fact that Don Johnson was a sex symbol and a teen idol back then before MIAMI VICE's cancellation on NBC in the Summer of 1989.
On the other hand, it was interesting seeing guest stars like
-Steven Keats in the "Contempt Of Court" episode before his co-starring days on ALL MY CHILDREN
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This season of MIAMI VICE also takes me all the way back to memory lane when NBC's motto was "Come On Home to NBC", which was NBC's motto from the Fall of 1987 thru the Summer of 1988 along with the fact that I was 15 years old and a Freshmen in High School over at Central Union High in my hometown(El Centro,CA)at the time.
Movie Review: Starting to go downhill
Summary: 3 Stars
Season 4 and 5 of Vice for me were too strange. The plots, feel, and entire series just wasn't the same. Of course there were still some good episodes and surprises, but overall it wasn't the same as season 1-3.