Review of Miami Blues (1990) by Peter Rainer for Los Angeles Times — 12 Oct 2007
What makes Miami Blues unsettling, in spite of itself, is the sense that the garish ultra-violence we're witnessing is just a species of high jinks. Armitage, adapting Charles Willeford's smart, nasty 1984 novel, doesn't provide the kind of moral dimension that might make Junior's sprees cumulatively frightening.
The film careens along as a blithely funky shoot-'em-up. It might have been made by a sociopathic Chuck Jones.
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This review of Miami Blues (1990) was written by Peter Rainer and published by Los Angeles Times on 12 Oct 2007.
Miami Blues has generally received positive reviews.
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