Director’s Cut of 2006’s ‘Miami Vice’ Arriving on 4K Blu-ray Dec. 15

Michael Mann’s Miami Vice

John Latchem

Radial Entertainment Dec. 15 will release Miami Vice: The Director’s Final Cut (Collector’s Edition), a five-disc 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Disc combo pack featuring a new edit of the 2006 film by writer-director Michael Mann.

In the film based on the classic 1980s TV series, A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx). Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

To mark the film’s 20th anniversary, the new definitive edition uses elements from both the original theatrical master and Mann’s first director’s cut along with previously unused dailies footage, with fine details adjusted scene by scene to help ensure the new cut looks and sounds better than ever. Fans will also notice changes to the story, with select scenes being refined, a re-ordering of certain scenes, and a significantly recut final act incorporating previously unused footage to reflect Mann’s preferred ending.

The collection is housed in a rigid slipcase and includes three versions of Miami Vice, with the 133-minute director’s final cut and the 132-minute theatrical cut on separate 4K discs with Dolby Vision and separate regular Blu-ray Discs, each with 5.1 and 2.0 master audio.

The fifth disc is a regular Blu-ray with the 139-minute original alternate cut and optional commentary by Mann, and bonus materials including the theatrical trailer, behind-the-scenes looks at gun training, the Mojo race and the Haitian hotel camera blocking, and the featurettes “Miami Vice Under Cover,” “Miami & Beyond: Shooting on Location” and “Visualizing Miami Vice.”

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